Suicidal Person Sues Subway Train Authority

The first time Milo Stephens Jr. tried to commit suicide, he did it by jumping in front of subway train as it pulled into an East Manhattan station way back in 1977. He didn't die, but the aftermath was pretty brutal. We'll just say Stephens didn't emerge from the incident in one piece.

A few months later, the family was able to find an "enterprising personal injury lawyer" who gave a whole new meaning to the term personal injury in legal circumstances. With his help, the family sued the New York City Transit Authority for 650,000 dollars in the guise that the driver of the train did not slow down the car in time and thus was to blame for injuring Stephens, even though he willingly put himself in harm's way.

Astonishingly, they won and the personal injuries weren't so personal anymore. Strangely, Stephens tried to kill himself again using the same method in 1982, which means that either he needs serious medical help, or he burned through that money faster than MC Hammer. Fortunately, New York didn't have anything to worry about as there was no severe "personal damage" this time.

7) Why Does This Taser Fire Bullets?

Perhaps it seems to be a cliche to say it, but only in this country can you get away with murder by suing someone else.

In the city of Madera, California, where there is absolutely nothing for anyone to do, after responding to a disturbance call, police arrested Evadero Torres, handcuffed him and brought to the backseat of a police vehicle. Sounds like a typical day in the life of a Police officer. Except when this guy tried a Pineapple Express by attempting to kick out vehicle windows and wrestle himself free from the handcuffs and grips of the officers subduing him. It lead up to where one of the officers, Marcie Norieg, took out her taser to make the suspect go nice and quiet, which makes sense at this point.

Well, it worked. Sort of. The only problem was that Noriega didn'€™t take out her taser. She took out her gun and thought she tasered the suspect, but had instead shot him in the chest and killed him.

The response? Not only were charges not pressed upon Noriega, but the police force sued the makers of the Taser gun under suspicion that it its design was too similar to that of a real gun - attributing that reason as the cause of the man's death, obviously not the negligent officer.

Nice Try

Jail gives inmates a lot of time to think, and a Chesapeake, Va., prisoner used the hours to come up with an exceptionally innovative lawsuit. In 1995, Robert Lee Brock sued himself for $5 million, claiming that he violated his own civil rights when he was arrested two years earlier for breaking and entering and grand larceny.

"I partook of alcoholic beverages in 1993, July 1st, as a result I caused myself to violate my religious beliefs. This was done by my going out and getting arrested," wrote Brock in the lawsuit he filed in federal court. But because he had no income in jail, Brock asked that the state pay him the multi-million dollar settlement. Judge Rebecca Beach Smith dismissed his claim as "ludicrous" but acknowledged his "innovative approach to civil rights litigation."

9) San Diego Is Being Sued Because of All the Damn Sea Lion Poop!

San Diego's La Jolla Cove is smelly. Like, super stinky. And it's all because of cute, lovable sea lions, that are pooping everywhere! Last week La Valencia Hotel and George's at the Cove filed a lawsuit against the city claiming "the stink is driving away customers and poses a health risk."

The lawsuit states that the city of San Diego has effectively ignored the problem.

This isn't the first time poo has impacted local businesses in the area. Last year it was "guano from pelicans, gulls and other birds." The city solved their excrement problem by hiring a company "to spray a bacterial solution to dissolve the waste." However, federal and state laws prohibit the harassment, capture and killing of sea lions. My response to these anti-defecation naysayers is this: He who smelt it, dealt it.

10) When kids commit heinous crimes, who is responsible? The makers of every video game they’ve ever played, of course.

2001, Linda Sanders and other family members of Columbine High School shooting victims sued 25 movie and video game companies for $5 billion, in a class action lawsuit.They claimed that were it not for movies includingThe Basketball Diaries and videos games including Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake, Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil, Mech Warrior, Wolfenstein, Redneck Rampage, Final Fantasy, and Nightmare Creatures, the massacre would not have occurred, and that the makers and distributors of the movies and games were partly to blame for their loved ones’ deaths. The case was thrown out and the plaintiffs were ordered to compensate the video game and movie companies for their legal fees.

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 941