Mar 12 2009
Sue Happy
I wish we had laws that ended ridiculous law suits. Several years ago, when I was working on the East coast a young man I knew was out playing. Roaming the neighborhood, he trespassed onto someone else’s property. There was a pile of refuse there that the owners were in the process of cleaning up. The young man climbed on the pile, slid and sliced open his leg. His parents successfully sued the landowner for having an unsafe pile on the land. Land the young man should not have entered.
Today a woman is suing her personal trainer for working her too hard. He was too demanding and yet inattentive. How can you be both? She is suing for a large amount of money with totally unspecified complaints. When will we realize that we, even if we are dealing with the most over-zealous trainer, are in control. We can say no, back off, you’re fired. But please-I cannot fathom saying I lost control of my own exercise program and somebody has to pay.
I’ll never forget reading of a man who was successfully sued because two boys entered his property and injured themselves lighting matches over the gas tank they had uncovered. Are parents not responsible for where their children are and what they are doing? As long as we can blame someone in the hope of getting money people will be bringing their spare fingers to Wendy’s and suing or placing hot coffee between their legs while they drive and getting money from McDonalds. Doesn’t almost make you wish you could slip and fall in a Walmart so you never have to work again? Yeah, me neither.
