At 10:27 PM 11/20/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Do you mean "Were you involved" or "Did you just make them up", or "Did you read about them in the paper"? Number 3 of course.Kevin Tarr wrote:
When a thief gets accidentally stuck in a pipe or falls through a skylight or gets locked in a garage for days on end, and can sue the business or home owner, and WIN, we truly have lost it.
Are these actual cases you are familiar with? Doug
I can't find example one with google.
Here is example two:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv17n3/reg17n3-hayward.html
And number 3 I'll just quote: 3. October 1998: A Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation. Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of half a million dollars.
Unrelated, but fun: http://www.archervalerie.com/lawback8.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike.bygrave/pages/stuff.htm
Kevin T.
I didn't run the snoopes test on them, DSL is too slow
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