Breaking news: Train hits man; dead corpse hits grandma; family sued.

*raises a single eyebrow*

What everyone else said... NINJA'D! And we don't even know the exact details about it... so saying things like: "His family deserves to be sued for his own stupidness." is just... unnecessary.

edited 10th Jan '12 8:48:22 AM by kay4today

Now that would be true if the man was an independent. Judging from his age and the fact his mother dropped him off he was a dependent, which means he and his family are indistinguishable from each other in such matters.

He was a negligent idiot. Even a judge agrees on that.

The family of the injured deserves compensation. This wasn't some tragic accident which noone could see coming, this was an idiot endangering other people.

this case was from 2008. He ran in front of a train so he wouldn't miss another. Read the article.

edited 10th Jan '12 8:53:19 AM by TheDeadMansLife

Do you ignore other posts on purpose?

What post did I ignore?

Thread hopped to say that the thread title is not a sentence I expected to read today.

At its heart, this case is about someone using the tragic death of a teenager to pump his mother for money. If that doesn't disgust you, then I don't know what to say.

@Dead Man's Life

I've read the article... and yes, it was very stupid of him, but we still don't know the exact details. Maybe he just didn't see the train...

And you apparently ignored all the posts that said: "And how is that his family's fault?"

At it's heart is the story of how one family had their grandmother suffer serious medical injuries because someone didn't want to be late. I feel bad for the teenager and his lot, not a lot but it is there, but I also feel for the family who had to pay god knows how much in medical bills and the elderly lady who had a fucking corpse crush her.

here let me reqoute myself.

"Now that would be true if the man was an independent. Judging from his age and the fact his mother dropped him off he was a dependent, which means he and his family are indistinguishable from each other in such matters."

edited 10th Jan '12 9:05:20 AM by TheDeadMansLife

He was 18 years old. Are you really trying to tell me that his family is at fault? And I feel sorry for the family who has lost a member.

edited 10th Jan '12 9:09:44 AM by kay4today

I don't care whose fault the accident was. The point is that to drag the mother through a court proceeding where she will be constantly reminded of her teenage son's brutal, gory death just so you can line your pockets is an exercise in cruelty and self-absorption. Shame on the plaintiff.

Plaintiff has elderly grandmother as a dependent. They are at the poverty line. They can barely afford living as it is. The grandmother is massively injured due to no fault of her own. They have insurance and can pay off most of it, but not all and definitely not the cost of the hike in insurance or worse they don't have insurance. Is the story squishy freely for you to stop thinking as the plaintiff as some sorta demon idler?

And key, judging by the fact that he was 18 and being dropped off by his mother probably means he was a dependent of the family, meaning that, yes they could be sued...

Either that or he had a will that the family excepted.

People are lawyer-happy. The train company wasn't liable, and the plaintiff was hungry to sue somebody.

Perhaps if there was universal insurance, shit like this would not happen.

I don't think the plaintiff is a demon, just a thoughtless, selfish individual, and the facts that we know of bear that out.

I would not dream of filing such a lawsuit if I'd been in the old woman's position. To know that someone was ripped to shreds by being hit with a train and to only think about how sad you are that you were adversely affected is reprehensible.

And key, judging by the fact that he was 18 and being dropped off by his mother probably means he was a dependent of the family, meaning that, yes they could be sued...

I'm aware that it is within the realms of possibility, but I'm not talking about that... I'm talking about a family who has lost a loved one. And I assume that an 18 years old guy can take care of himself.

edited 10th Jan '12 9:30:29 AM by kay4today

I'm guessing it's not about sadness, it's about money.

Someone this old who's injured this badly and can't pay their medical bills is fucked.

edited 10th Jan '12 9:30:41 AM by ohsointocats

The old lady is not paying, her family is paying for the record.

All I know is this. If that had been my grandmother who had almost been taken out cause some dumb fuck decide to do something so outrageously stupid, I wouldn't be looking for cash, I would be looking for blood.

And what is that supposed to mean? Would you like... go to the mother and be like: "Yo! Your dead son was a total idiot. So I'm gonna beat you up with that baseball bat, 'kay?"

edited 10th Jan '12 9:40:22 AM by kay4today

I...chuckled.

No no? What am I? Italian? Beating someone up with a bat? Pfff. As if.

I would use a knife.

Very funny... can't tell if serious or not... O__O

I wouldn't worry much if my grandma got pelted with body parts. Worse, or better?

And if my son had actually been taken out and some money-grubbing bastard decided to exploit this tragedy for cash in an emotionally painful, costly and time-consuming way, I wouldn't exactly be jumping for joy either.

>having your dead body flung 100 feet across a platform
>foreseeable

what

edited 10th Jan '12 10:12:33 AM by Wicked223