The 10,000 Post thread V3

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

3781

Does he have a sweet ride?

[Larks2242 251]

3782.

 

When in doubt, ghost ride the whip.

[Duke87 1,070]

(3783)

 

I think they pay for all your costs.

 

Who does, the person you're suing? If so then that certainly makes it more worth your while.

 

In the US, you generally have to claim the cost of legal representation as something you're suing for, and I don't think you can always do that. And of course, you don't get that if you lose.

 

Likewise, if you are the one being sued, you are on the hook for your own legal costs whether you win or lose, unless you countersue for the legal costs as damages, which has no guarantee of success.

 

This enables a tactic known as "Slapping", where some entity will bully its target into complying with demands that they are not legally entitled to make merely by threatening to sue them. When faced with such a situation, you can comply with the demands of the threatening entity, thus ending things then and there, or you can proceed to litigation where you will probably win, because you are in the right, but will have to pay the costs of defending yourself in court (which many small entities may not be able to do) and deal with the headache of doing so. This takes advantage of the concept that "even if you win, you lose".

[Muck308 55]

3784

 

My best friend was actually approached by the woman he was suing (his former employer) about going on Judge Judy. He was suing her for unpaid wages. Now, in Pennsylvania, if an employer owes an employee (former or current) backdated wages and they don't provide them when requested, the Claimant has the right to sue for the wages + $500.00 + legal fees. This was indeed what he was suing for but he had no incentive to go on the show because whether he won or lost he was paid nothing more than $100.00 (or something insultingly low like that, I forget the precise amount) for his time, paid by the show. The Defendant, however, was to be paid the same. If she lost, the show would have paid my friend what she owed to him, so she would have made out either way. My friend would have been out of luck had he lost. He declined to go on the show and I don't blame him. In the end, she was ordered to pay by a local Magistrate but instead only approached my friend with the Judge Judy proposal and has since not paid my friend a dime.

[Larks2242 251]

3785.

 

Judge Judy takes no crap, you wanna fair hearing, you got it, also you get the added bonus of guest staring on a TV show, who wouldn't like that?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

3786

 

The rainy season has started here.  We have a forecast for rain and clouds and little else for the foreseeable future.  This makes it difficult because we have laundry that needs to be hung outside to dry.  sigh

[Duke87 1,070]

(3787)

If I am going to make an appearance on TV, I would not want it to involve airing my personal drama to the world. Appearing on a show like Judge Judy is humiliation, not honor.

I mean, would you want to go on Jerry Springer, or Maury? Come on now.

[Larks2242 251]

3788.

 

Better that then never guest staring at all.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

3789

 

TV is way overrated, and fame (especially the fleeting kind) is even more so.

[Duke87 1,070]

(3790)

Yeah, I'm going to have to say that never guest starring at all is vastly preferable.

[RipRap 4,400]

3791

I find judge shows like Judge Judy a little bit... Uncomfortable.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

3792: We don't have Judge Judy or anything similar in Australia.

Either way, I went to the wreckers and picked up two doors and a side panel for $200! That's half the parts sorted now.

[Larks2242 251]

3793.

 

Speaking of TV, Tracy Morgan is fighting for his life right now after a terrible 6 car crash with tractors and his limo on the NJ turnpike, I wish him well, he is an excellent actor.

[Muck308 55]

3794

 

Bummer. Funny guy.

 

I had another friend who was on Montel years ago. That show is total bullcrap because when she appeared on set the producers changed the premise of the episode and just had her lie about why she was there. She showed me the tape. I had a good laugh.

[Duke87 1,070]

(3795)

I don't know offhand who that is, but man, that's a nasty wreck.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

3796

 

I remember Tracy Morgan from his short appearance on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.  He was funny, and I heard he was funny on 30 Rock, but I don't watch TV, so I'll never be able to verify this.  I hope he pulls through and that his family will not have to prematurely mourn him.

[Larks2242 251]

3797.

 

I've always thought he is funny, He has that kind of energy to him too that makes it all the more entertaining.

[Muck308 55]

3798

 

"I was raised on government cheese. I prefer it." One of my favorite lines by him.

[Duke87 1,070]

(3799)

 

I'm going to have to admit I'd never heard of him prior to hearing he was hurt in this accident.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

3800

 

A tragic accident is a tragic accident regardless of whether or not the people involved are famous.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

3801: It's kinda sad when you realise that these things happen and are a part of life. I passed a three car accident today without batting an eye.

That being said, I did find it eerie when I went to a scrapyard the other day to hunt down spare parts for my damaged car. Some of the damage was just astounding and it made me wonder what happened to the people inside the cars.

[Larks2242 251]

3802.

 

Not everyone makes it out...

[Muck308 55]

3803

 

I think about it myself. Usually when I'm driving at night and worry about a deer popping out of the woods.

[Duke87 1,070]

(3804)

 

That being said, I did find it eerie when I went to a scrapyard the other day to hunt down spare parts for my damaged car. Some of the damage was just astounding and it made me wonder what happened to the people inside the cars.

 

Not necessarily as much as you might think. One of the beauties of modern automotive engineering is that the bodies of cars are designed to absorb large impact forces, under the basic principal that you'd rather destroy the car than destroy the person in it. There can be some very nasty-looking wrecks that people walk away from.

 

Indeed, even in the case of the Tracy Morgan pileup, you have one person dead and a few seriously injured, but a lot more people who were in the accident who are relatively or completely fine.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

3805: I guess that's true, Duke.

Has anyone hit animals with their car before? We get problems with feral deer in my area as well as kangaroos. Had one jump out in front of my car on a blind corner a while back.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

3806

 

I had a friend in high school got her Ford Tempo's hood all bashed up by a deer (a rather common occurrence in Michigan), and another friend whose Dodge Dakota got totaled by what she claims was a bear.  I've rear-ended two people (very low speeds, no damage) and scuffed the passenger side of my Impreza (now no longer with us *sniff sniff*) on a too-narrow road that an idiot in a kei car decided to drive right down the middle of.  If I think about him too much, I'll start cursing.  Needless to say, morons here pose a bigger danger than animals.

[Duke87 1,070]

(3807)

 

My driving has claimed the lives of a handful of small wild animals and thousands and thousands of flying insects, but I have never hit anything large enough to do damage. I did have a reeeaallly close call with a deer once, though.

[Larks2242 251]

3808.

 

You murderer you!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

3809

 

There are people in Michigan who scrape them off the ground and eat them.  I'm pretty sure that it's not the only place, though.

[Duke87 1,070]

(3810)

Eating roadkill is a redneck pastime.

Having spoken to some people who've actually done this, they do make a sensible argument, though: why let perfectly good meat go to waste? They'd eat the same animal if they shot it while hunting, no reason it's less edible if it was killed by a car rather than a bullet.