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Exhibit 4: Mr. Loophole (TM)
He's cleared people of speeding over 100 miles an hour based on laws from the days of the Model T, when the only way to get a car moving that fast was throw it off a cliff. He refuses to meet clients before proceedings in case he'd be compromised by any extraneous details they might reveal. Translation: "My clients are so guilty that I can't risk even being in the same room as them."
His high-profile clients include a soccer player who killed a father of four by ramming a Mercedes into his Renault. Luckily this was one case where Freeman couldn't derail due process by doing something like claiming a man with nine double-vodkas in his system was sober, arguing that needing to piss is more important than "the law," or accusing a magistrate of winking (all of which he's pulled off in other cases). He proved his absolute lawyerality by once saying, "Morally, I can't (justify it), but ethically, I can." If that makes any sense to you then congratulations, you're either Buddha or psychotic. Exhibit 5: Judge fucks up walking, the world must pay
Wait, there's more. He's also suing the janitor. Yes, a $136,000-a-year judge looking to collect from the lady who literally cleans up after him ... because she got the floor wet while mopping it. Battaglia defines a wet floor as "a dangerous and hazardous traplike condition," because as an experienced judge, he knows other judges aren't allowed to go, "Oh shut up you cash-grubbing asshole." They have to act like he's an entirely reasonable human being and patiently explain that the city did not ambush him with a bucket of water.
If it turns out this guy is living in the same Disney movie as Roy Pearson up there, then it's just a matter of time until some genie or angel or cursed bracelet causes him to swap lives with the janitor. After a few months as a minimum wage worker struggling to make ends meet while rich assholes prance around like the lords of creation, he'll gain a new understanding of the real values that matter in life. Then after that realization he'll wake up and still be a janitor, because fuck him. Exhibit 6: Gambling lawyer sues casino for making her gamble
In fact she lost over a million dollars, her legal practice, her home, her parents' home and claims she even tried to kill herself, so she clearly lost at that too. Of course, none of it is her fault, which is why she's suing seven major Atlantic City casinos for a $20 million jackpot. Because God knows her last attempt to get money out of them worked so well. Since refusing to give money back to the losers is pretty much the foundation of the gambling industry, and they have large mountains of money to hire their own lawyers with, we don't like her chances.
At first, it's hard to know who to root for in this contest between two businesses based on weaseling money out of stupid people. But then you remember the casinos have a buffet. |
i thought that spongbob episode had an original, never-could-happen-in-the-real-world plot, guess i was wrong...
I fell once climbing a 12 foot fence arouond my high school and sprained my knee. I wonder if I could have gotten a million for the school district not putting up signs warning about the dangers of gravity and drunkenness.
laws may be biult for a reason, but many of the laws do not do what they are intended, are misguided or a number of problems
oops I mean 'walk'. please do not take legal action for causing any unjust confusion
You mean it's dangerous to warn on train tracks? A woman sues railroad...
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_269598.html
To be fair, most of the firefighters I have worked with and known have had pyro tendencies. This lady was just an idiot.
Goldeneyed/worldismyidea: Yup, Nick Freeman definitely practices in the UK. I know this because I live in the UK, and I know him. He's my dad's solicitor (meaning lawyer, not prostitute - although that would open up some interesting new cases for him, I'm sure) and is, as the above says, an utter douche.
Onodera: Uh no, she spilled the coffee on herself. The driver of the car pulled over after leaving the window, where she placed the coffee between her knees to add cream and sugar and spilled it while attempting to pull the lid off. Her name is Stella Liebeck, look it up.
dear Worldismyidea: I'm sure you're right about Nick Freeman, but thought you might like to know that there are plenty of magistrates in the US:)
kimminator: Don't just read the headlines. That lady didn't spill the coffee on herself. The highly trained window opperator spilt the coffee on the woman, severly burning her womanhood.
More on Venkatesan. According to her, the students engaged in "Subversiveness" and "Fascist demagoguery" -
http://constitutionclub.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/dartmouth-prof-to-sue-her-students/
exibit 3 made me want to punch the screen, and increased my doubts that society wont collapse all over again.
I dont know whether I should laugh, or go out and corner somebody or something into being sued, then laugh. I know Ill get one of these rich assholes sued, and put them on the streets, with another rich a*****e....wait that would still be wrong, nevermind.
Luke,this was your best yet.
Remakably, I actually know one of the attorneys in Exhibit 7. I am gonna give him s**t about this tomorrow.
Nick Freeman practises in the UK (the term 'magistrate' should be clue there). How does he prove the US justice system is fucked?
you know what...US is screwed anyway...goes with out saying.... lol
The joke is on you, Priya Venkatesan. I have no mother, but two fathers instead! AH HAH!
I am Priya Venkatesan and I regret to inform you that this website, you yourself, and the mother of anyone who read this article, are being named in a class-action lawsuit I am filing.
Lobster rights? Good one!
Pot makes you a bloodthirsty homosexual pervert.
Take that, James Blunt!
They died like they lived: idiots.
Apparently, science likes sex as much as Cracked.
We know because people tried.
There's such a thing as wanting it too badly.
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