Let’s sue for stupid people tricks
by Rawly Bransom
editor-in-chief
The saying “Bad things happen to good people” might be true. The news is often filled with stories about a poor mother losing everything in a fire or a man shot and robbed while going home to his family.
Such stories pull at the heartstrings and can bring changes in our society.
A good example is the Amber Alert named after Amber Hagerman, a child kidnapped and killed in North Texas. Who knows how many children have been saved after this tragedy?
When bad things happen to stupid or greedy people, our true colors show. Generally, ugly, greedy and dumb people will use any excuse to further their desires at the cost of their fellow man.
Robert Levin, a freelance photographer, filed a $50 million law suit against a waste management company in February.
The suit is for injuries he suffered while taking photographs of ground zero in New York in December 2001.
How was he injured?
Levin climbed on a garbage truck to get a better vantage point without letting anyone know he was there.
Once the stop was done, the driver pulled out, unaware Levin was on top.
Levin fell, sustaining injuries, including some brain damage.
His law suit claims the waste management company and the driver did not respect his rights as a pedestrian.
I have never climbed on top of someone’s roof while walking down a street. In fact, I believe that could be considered a type of vandalism or even a trespassing offense.
Whether his actions are illegal (and obviously stupid) is not the point.
Frivolous law suits are running our courts ragged, hurting innocent companies and people and costing tax payers time and money.
If someone is dumb enough to climb onto a garbage truck without permission, he deserves whatever consequences befall him.
When did our American ideals of work hard and you will succeed change to use any opportunity to crush others and take whatever you can get?
Being responsible for our own actions is no longer an ability Americans have. Everything is either society’s fault or the person’s next to us.
Come to think of it, I have a professor I need to sue for daring to give me a D on a my last test.
Last Updated: 4/14/2004
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