The I can't believe these stories thread.

[George Costanza]

I was laughing out loud when I read this story. I was flabbergasted when I read it. Do lawyers really think they will win on this one?.

Post yours.

https://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/12/justin-bieber-hit-with-9m-lawsuit

LOS ANGELES - Are Justin Bieber’s masses of screaming tweener fans annoying to you? Count your blessings - it could be a lot worse.
“Boyfriend” singer Bieber has been slapped with a lawsuit by an Oregon woman who claims that she suffered extensive hearing damage brought on by shrieking Bieber fans at one of his concerts.

In the suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Oregon, Stacey Wilson Betts claims that she attended a July 14, 2010, Bieber concert with her daughter at the Rose Quarter in Portland.

According to Betts, the injury occurred when the singer “climbed into a heart-shaped, aluminum/steel gondola and was pulled out over the crowd.” The lawsuit says Bieber then “enticed the crowd into a frenzy of screams by continuously waving his arms in a quick and upward motion.”

Unfortunately, according to Betts, “the gondola that Justin Bieber was suspended in acted as a sound conductor, creating a sound blast that permanently damaged both of my ears.”

Betts claims that, because of the alleged incident, she now suffers “hearing loss, severe tinnitus and hyperacusis (an oversensitivity to certain frequency ranges of sound) in both ears.”

The suit - which also names Bieber’s record label Island Def Jam, concert promoter AEG Worldwide, and Vulcan Sports and Entertainment, which owns the Rose Quarter - is seeking $9,230,000 in damages, plus court costs, attorneys’ fees and other expenses related to the suit.

A spokeswoman for Bieber has not yet responded to TheWrap’s request for comment.

 

[-b]

Oh well ....I can't wait when the legal system in Canada
lets us sue everybody .......

 

[God]

WTF :unknw:

 

[BEER]

Why couldn't she just ask for 20 million Damn-Not too smart

 

[Boing]

$158,000 dog wedding sets record

wo dogs got married Thursday night at an extravaganza to benefit the Humane Society of New York in what is being billed as the most expensive pet wedding ever.
Bride Baby Hope Diamond, a white Coton de Tulear with black-gray markings, was led down the aisle, resplendent in her canine couture gown.

Her poodle groom, a dapper dude named Chilly Pasternak from Richmond, Va., didn't seem too excited about the whole affair but, nevertheless, went along with the ceremony. Seven-year itch, anyone?

After they got hitched, the cuddly couple were presented with a Guinness World Record in the category of most expensive pet wedding at $158,187.26. The luxury goods and services that went into the wedding were all donated. Guests bought tickets for the Manhattan fundraiser.

Baby Hope was adopted by animal welfare activist Wendy Diamond after her beloved Maltese died of cancer last month. Lucky Diamond, a longtime champion of the underdog, was originally cast as the bride. The wedding instead served as a celebration of the life of the little Maltese.

Lucky herself held a Guinness Record: The animal most photographed with famous people. She posed with more than 300 celebrities, fromTwilight actress Kristen Stewart to hip-hop star Snoop Dogg.
No expense was spared for the black-tie gala, held at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel at Central Park. The "dream team" included a celebrity wedding planner, a "lighting guru" with experience at major museums, and highly touted chefs for the reception, to name just a few.

Since the guests came from more than one species, a company co-owned by Ellen DeGeneres provided a pet food buffet.

"I am not the mother of the bride, since Baby Hope is 56 years old in dog years," Diamond said on her website. "Just call me the Maid of Honor!"

The wedding wasn't 100 per cent highbrow. It was officiated by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2012/07/13/dog-wedding-record.html

 

[HOF]

Sadly people just try to get by on easy street!

I don't begrudge Justin Beiber's success; in fact, I am happy for him in many ways. I don't like his music, I do like his girlfriend and his mom. I think that he could be a serious actor film/tv and hopefully one day will cut an album that is mature.

He's an entertaining kid just like Mark Wahlberg and Justin Timberlake in many ways who are both really talented.

Did I mention that I'd enjoy shaggin' Selena Gomez's ass!



Dare to dream, it's my birthday!

 

[HOF]

$158,000 dog wedding sets record

wo dogs got married Thursday night at an extravaganza to benefit the Humane Society of New York in what is being billed as the most expensive pet wedding ever.
Bride Baby Hope Diamond, a white Coton de Tulear with black-gray markings, was led down the aisle, resplendent in her canine couture gown.

Her poodle groom, a dapper dude named Chilly Pasternak from Richmond, Va., didn't seem too excited about the whole affair but, nevertheless, went along with the ceremony. Seven-year itch, anyone?

After they got hitched, the cuddly couple were presented with a Guinness World Record in the category of most expensive pet wedding at $158,187.26. The luxury goods and services that went into the wedding were all donated. Guests bought tickets for the Manhattan fundraiser.

Baby Hope was adopted by animal welfare activist Wendy Diamond after her beloved Maltese died of cancer last month. Lucky Diamond, a longtime champion of the underdog, was originally cast as the bride. The wedding instead served as a celebration of the life of the little Maltese.

Lucky herself held a Guinness Record: The animal most photographed with famous people. She posed with more than 300 celebrities, fromTwilight actress Kristen Stewart to hip-hop star Snoop Dogg.
No expense was spared for the black-tie gala, held at the Jumeirah Essex House Hotel at Central Park. The "dream team" included a celebrity wedding planner, a "lighting guru" with experience at major museums, and highly touted chefs for the reception, to name just a few.

Since the guests came from more than one species, a company co-owned by Ellen DeGeneres provided a pet food buffet.

"I am not the mother of the bride, since Baby Hope is 56 years old in dog years," Diamond said on her website. "Just call me the Maid of Honor!"

The wedding wasn't 100 per cent highbrow. It was officiated by Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2012/07/13/dog-wedding-record.html

Someone should just lobotomize the humans involved in this nonsense!

Dare to dream, it's my birthday!

 

[a 1 player]

Sadly people just try to get by on easy street!

I don't begrudge Justin Beiber's success; in fact, I am happy for him in many ways. I don't like his music, I do like his girlfriend and his mom. I think that he could be a serious actor film/tv and hopefully one day will cut an album that is mature.

He's an entertaining kid just like Mark Wahlberg and Justin Timberlake in many ways who are both really talented.

100% agree.

 

[tboy]

to answer the op's question: do lawyers really expect to win? I don't think so...their goal (many of them anyways) is to "try" and get money for their customer/client hence why when you're in court it's called a "trial"......I bet most of them work towards a settlement agreement no matter how frivolous the lawsuit is......kind of like that one over mcdonald's coffee being served "too hot".

See, back in the day, what would probably happen is if someone found the coffee to be too hot, they'd write mcdonalds and say "I got burned by your coffee" mcdonalds would send them a card saying they ate free for a year and then turn down the temp.....

Now anyone has the right to retain counsel and put forth a suit, but things like this just clog up the courts for people who actually have a case. Imagine a truck's brakes failed and it killed your family but you can't get a court date for 20 yrs because of suits like this......

I think first and foremost, new lawyers should he taught to differentiate between suits that have merit, and frivolous suits. I know in the US they went through tort reform years ago and it took away many people's rights to sue.....that was brought about specifically because of frivolous suits......

As for the hearing loss, sorry, anyone with half a brain knows that concerts can get loud. If you don't want to risk hearing loss, then wear ear plugs. EOS. I can't wait for someone to sue gun makers because they never told them that you shouldn't put it in your mouth and pull the trigger.....

 

[God]

Bummer on the useless folks that have nothing else to do.

I say get a job and stop using people.

 

[a 1 player]

to answer the op's question: do lawyers really expect to win? I don't think so...their goal (many of them anyways) is to "try" and get money for their customer/client hence why when you're in court it's called a "trial"......I bet most of them work towards a settlement agreement no matter how frivolous the lawsuit is......kind of like that one over mcdonald's coffee being served "too hot".

See, back in the day, what would probably happen is if someone found the coffee to be too hot, they'd write mcdonalds and say "I got burned by your coffee" mcdonalds would send them a card saying they ate free for a year and then turn down the temp.....

Now anyone has the right to retain counsel and put forth a suit, but things like this just clog up the courts for people who actually have a case. Imagine a truck's brakes failed and it killed your family but you can't get a court date for 20 yrs because of suits like this......

I think first and foremost, new lawyers should he taught to differentiate between suits that have merit, and frivolous suits. I know in the US they went through tort reform years ago and it took away many people's rights to sue.....that was brought about specifically because of frivolous suits......

As for the hearing loss, sorry, anyone with half a brain knows that concerts can get loud. If you don't want to risk hearing loss, then wear ear plugs. EOS. I can't wait for someone to sue gun makers because they never told them that you shouldn't put it in your mouth and pull the trigger.....

I'd like to add...

The biggest problem I see is that we have entered an age of people who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions, and will do anything to place the blame on someone else.

It always seems to be, I'm poor, my father was an alcoholic, I'm a minority, I'm new to the country, I'm fat, How was I to know the car needed a tune up, I didn't know a concert would be loud, I didn't realize the coffee would be so hot, he didn't stop me from drinking those 13 beers...

Perhaps it is a different moral upbringing, or perhaps it is people just following the lead of others who seem to get something for nothing, but on any level it is wrong. The justice system was designed to be an impartial judge to decide a verdict for cases where ones rights have been violated or an injustice has been committed. There are so many cases where this rule has not been followed.

 

[TINY]

 

[Art Mann]

to answer the op's question: do lawyers really expect to win? I don't think so...their goal (many of them anyways) is to "try" and get money for their customer/client hence why when you're in court it's called a "trial"......I bet most of them work towards a settlement agreement no matter how frivolous the lawsuit is......kind of like that one over mcdonald's coffee being served "too hot".

See, back in the day, what would probably happen is if someone found the coffee to be too hot, they'd write mcdonalds and say "I got burned by your coffee" mcdonalds would send them a card saying they ate free for a year and then turn down the temp.....

You're referring to Stella Liebeck, the 79-year-old woman who got a cup of coffee at the drive-thru window. She was sitting in the passenger seat of her grandson's car. He pulled out of the drive-thru lane, and parked the car so she could add cream and sugar to the coffee. She placed the cup between her thighs (she was wearing cotton sweatpants) and pulled the lid up toward her to remove it, but it caught and she spilled the entire cup of scalding coffee on her thighs, giving her third degree burns.

She was hospitalized for eight days while undergoing skin grafting, and that was the beginning of two years of medical treatment. She asked McDonald's for $20,000 to cover her expenses. McDonald's offered her $800.

Trial documents revealed McDonald's had received more than 700 complaints of people being scalded by hot coffee .... served at 190 degrees (F) ... and never bothered to lower the temperature.

As a result of the Leibeck lawsuit, McDonald's did change its position and dropped the temp by 20 degrees or so.

It could hardly be called a frivolous lawsuit. This is what Stella looked like as a result of that coffee burn:

. . . I think first and foremost, new lawyers should he taught to differentiate between suits that have merit, and frivolous suits. I know in the US they went through tort reform years ago and it took away many people's rights to sue.....that was brought about specifically because of frivolous suits.....

And that's the spin that big business put on tort reform ... propaganda which the media fell for and distributed. The McDonald's coffee case turned Liebeck into the butt of jokes and mockery, and has been routinely cited as an example of how American citizens abuse the legal system. Dig deep enough and you'll discover big business abusing both the legal system and ordinary American citizens.

Check out the documentary HOT COFFEE sometime.

It's an eye-opener.

 

[Boing]

 

[Jesus Quintana]

I totally want to stick my Johnson in Sarah Silverman's mouth. Just to shut her up.

 

[a 1 player]

I totally want to stick my Johnson in Sarah Silverman's mouth. Just to shut her up.

I'd do her.

 

[PonkPecker]

Remember the genius who tried to that was writing ticket for said genius' illegally parked ? Said genius is being sued by said cop for US$10 million.

The owner has a name; Julien Chabbot. According to the New York Post, the 28-year-old internet entrepreneur is being sued by officer Felix Recio, who claims Chabbot intentionally tried to run him over when he was attempting to write a ticket. Recio has reportedly retained lawyer Sal Strazzullo, who has motioned to increase the criminal charges from felony assault to first-degree assault with a deadly weapon. "Chabbott clearly had no regard for Officer Recio's life," said Strazzullo, "hitting him with his Ferrari could have caused serious injured or even death.

According to the report, the left the 34-year-old officer with "a swollen foot and bruising." Recio continued, "I believe he deliberately drove towards me with an intent to hurt me." Recio is suing for personal injury and says he has not been able to work since the incident.

Meanwhile, Chabbott's attorney, Ben Brafman, denies the upped charges, stating: "We are not aware of any civil lawsuit... I would be shocked if a US$10 million lawsuit is in fact being contemplated given the fact that we have developed information to the effect that the officer in question appears to have suffered no injury whatsoever."

We'll see how this sordid legal affair plays out. In the meantime, to watch the caught-on-video incident.

 

[RAWD]

Remember the genius who tried to that was writing ticket for said genius' illegally parked ? Said genius is being sued by said cop for US$10 million.

The owner has a name; Julien Chabbot. According to the New York Post, the 28-year-old internet entrepreneur is being sued by officer Felix Recio, who claims Chabbot intentionally tried to run him over when he was attempting to write a ticket. Recio has reportedly retained lawyer Sal Strazzullo, who has motioned to increase the criminal charges from felony assault to first-degree assault with a deadly weapon. "Chabbott clearly had no regard for Officer Recio's life," said Strazzullo, "hitting him with his Ferrari could have caused serious injured or even death.

According to the report, the left the 34-year-old officer with "a swollen foot and bruising." Recio continued, "I believe he deliberately drove towards me with an intent to hurt me." Recio is suing for personal injury and says he has not been able to work since the incident.

Meanwhile, Chabbott's attorney, Ben Brafman, denies the upped charges, stating: "We are not aware of any civil lawsuit... I would be shocked if a US$10 million lawsuit is in fact being contemplated given the fact that we have developed information to the effect that the officer in question appears to have suffered no injury whatsoever."

We'll see how this sordid legal affair plays out. In the meantime, to watch the caught-on-video incident.

I don't know about a civil suit. It would be a work-related injury for the cop. Punk deserved to be taken down hard.

 

[Virus]

Deaf boy's name violates weapons policy: School

A Nebraska preschool is asking a three-year-old deaf boy to change his name because it violates the school board's weapons policy.

Hunter Spanjer signs his first name by making what looks like shooting gestures with both hands. He crosses his fingers when he does it - a modification to show it's his proper name.

But the Grand Island Public Schools board says its "Weapons in Schools" policy bans "any instrument ... that looks like a weapon." The school wants him to change the sign, a request Hunter's family says is both unfair and silly.
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way," Hunter's grandmother Janet Logue told local news station .

"It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a registered sign," said Hunter's father, Brian Spanjer.

The school board wants to work out a compromise.

"We are working with the parents to come to the best solution we can for the child," said school board spokesman Jack Sheard.

But the Spanjers say they aren't interested. They're bringing in lawyers from the National Association of the Deaf to fight for their son's right to sign his own name.

Meanwhile, local residents told the station the school is overreacting and that Hunter poses no danger.

https://www.torontosun.com/2012/08/28/deaf-boys-name-violates-weapons-policy-school

 

[Jesus Quintana]

Deaf boy's name violates weapons policy: School
A Nebraska preschool is asking a three-year-old deaf boy to change his name because it violates the school board's weapons policy.
Hunter Spanjer signs his first name by making what looks like shooting gestures with both hands. He crosses his fingers when he does it - a modification to show it's his proper name.
But the Grand Island Public Schools board says its "Weapons in Schools" policy bans "any instrument ... that looks like a weapon." The school wants him to change the sign, a request Hunter's family says is both unfair and silly.

Jeez wait until they figure out that penises look like weapons too then they'll try to ban penises is schools.