Wandering Student ಠ_ಠ
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this is a level of absurd too high for my brain.
what's that old saying? You can get an audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable? It applies.
Very big Daydream Believer. "That's not knowledge, that's a crapshoot!" -Al Murray "Welcome to QI" -Stephen Fry
Vulgaris Magistralis
PARTY PARTY PARTY I WANNA HAVE A PARTY
Talk about your Grievous Harm with a Body.
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serial
I realise that getting whacked in the face with a flying decapitated arm or whatever must be traumatic, but whose first reaction is it to sue a dead mans family?
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
Until further notice
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What he said. Seriously? That falls on the wrong side of Hanlon's Razor. "Foreseeable?" Look, I'm pretty sure the guy foresaw himself getting hit by a !@#$ing train. Yeah, right.
edited 10th Jan '12 3:43:54 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
Das kann doch nicht sein!
And yet the only that comes to my mind is "Isn't 'dead corpse' a bit redundant?"
People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
Until further notice
Well, you never know: the whole incident just makes me think that people could use more BBRRAAAAIIIINNNNSSSS...
EDITED because I'm probably jumping to conclusions based on an incomplete picture; nonetheless, this is still my reaction at face value.
edited 10th Jan '12 3:47:30 AM by Pyrite
Not a substitute for a formal medical consultation.
In this age of zombies, one must be precise.
Rabbit Season
The people who initiated this lawsuit are pieces of crap. Some guy has been dismembered, and your first thought is to sue his grieving family? Fuck you.
You're an ad hominem attack!
What I'm very curious about are their motivations behind this action.
Did they want money? Was it greed? Or did they want to feel justified, to feel avenged?
If it was the latter, I wonder if American culture is what causes her citizens to use frivolous lawsuits as weapons of vengeance.
edited 10th Jan '12 5:18:26 AM by Kraken
intellectual rapist
the defendants have to prove that this can be considered
part of "causation", an element of standing,
which seems impossible
so the idea of suing is pretty damn stupid and a waste of money
very likely the media has jumped onto a case that will be rejected pretty much immediately
Rabbit Season
Well, it's already survived one motion to dismiss.
Do you not think the fact that the guy is fucking dead is enough of a punishment?
You're an ad hominem attack!
Princess Ymir's knightess
The fuck is this shit?
That is a brilliant reaction 
Just awesome like that
Dammit, stole mah reaction.
Lover of masks.
I agree with the family who is suing.
Please.
Faith in the self.
Princess Ymir's knightess
Dead? You thought wrong
The helll?
Also, Idler beat me to what I was going to say.
edited 10th Jan '12 8:32:03 AM by lolacat
Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
Lover of masks.
I got a thump for saying I thought someone was a troll once. Yntkt
But seriously, the family should sue. A leg and arm break plus a shoulder injury? That shit will fuck up the day of any person. Now such a hit on an old person? That's going to be some major damage. What the fuck was this dumbass of the day thinking? Who the fuck walks in front of train that is going fast enough to send a chunk of your corpse 100 feet?
Basically if the man had survived they could sue him, but he didn't so they got to sue the family.
Please.
Dead? You thought wrong
It's not the family's fault.
Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
Rabbit Season
To try to milk money out of a family grieving for a dead teenager by calling said teenager a negligent idiot who was responsible for his own death is utterly heartless, and it disgusts me that anyone could be that selfish.
You're an ad hominem attack!
Dead? You thought wrong
What Idler said.
Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.
It seems like it would be easier to run in front of a fast moving train than a slow moving one because a fast moving one would give you little chance to see it.
I mean I feel bad for the woman but I don't think suing the family of a guy who was killed by getting hit by a train is the right thing to do.
edited 10th Jan '12 8:45:59 AM by ohsointocats
Bizarrely tragic, or tragically bizarre?