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January 27, 2009
The Case for Tort Reform
You're in a plane that hits a flock of geese over the most populated city in the United States. Against all odds, your pilot keeps the plane under control and does what no other commercial airline pilot has ever successfully done. You and everyone on that plane with you survives the ordeal.
What's your response? Gratitude to the pilot and the airline who hired him? A rethinking of life's priorities?
Nah.
If you're Joe Hart, it's lawsuit time!
Joe Hart, a salesman from Charlotte who suffered a bloody nose and bruises, says he “would like to be made whole for the incident.”The significance of the incident? The significance of the incident, you ungrateful doofus, is that you and everyone on that plane is alive. I'm not sure what disgusts me more - that Joe Hart sees his brush with death as nothing more than the opportunity for a payout, or the fact that some bottom-feeding lawyer is willing to actually take this case under the circumstances. What the heck is wrong with these people?It’s too soon after the accident to determine what emotional distress he has suffered, he says.
…Hart says he has talked to a lawyer in North Carolina but hasn’t decided whether to take any legal action.
“I want to see how things play out with US Airways,” he says. “I’m hopeful US Airways understands the significance of the incident.”
Like Rachel Lucas says, if you want to sue someone, sue the geese who flew in front of that plane.
Posted by slublog at January 27, 2009 08:03 PM
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ah, the wonderful world of opportunistic litigation, it's the new American dream.
What an ungrateful scumbag, maybe he'll get a fatal case of the avian flu.
Posted by: coldmexican at January 27, 2009 09:53 PM
…Hart says he has talked to a lawyer in North Carolina...
John Edwards?
Posted by: harrison at January 27, 2009 10:35 PM
It’s too soon after the accident to determine what emotional distress he has suffered, he says.
His lawyer will tell him how badly he has been inured. Expressed in $$$$$$$$
Posted by: Jones at January 28, 2009 07:04 AM
He would like to be made whole again??? Well, that begs the question of was he whole in the first place.
Posted by: Kath at January 28, 2009 09:28 AM
If Obama wants to promote "healing" in America perhaps he could start by sending Joe his unicorn.
Still waiting for my unicorn to arrive. And, since I'm a conservative, mine will probably show up dead - or gay.
Posted by: Murph at January 28, 2009 01:46 PM
This is like the people suing Guardian for defective defribillater/pacemaker implants. They sue because something went wrong with the implants completely overlooking the fact that without them the suers would probably already be dead.
Posted by: BarbaraS at January 29, 2009 11:36 PM