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- = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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- I'm Gonna Sue
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- I'm gonna sue. I'm gonna sue the restaurant I ate lunch at
- last week. Their soup was too hot and burned my tongue. Better
- yet, I'll sue the company that makes that dangerous soup. They
- should have warned me and prevented my injury. I'll sue Bic, the
- company that makes the lighters I use. I burned my finger on one
- just the other day. They should pay me for my suffering.
- I should sue the company that manufactures my cigarettes too. If
- it weren't for their addictive product, I wouldn't have used that
- dangerous lighter in the first place. I am an innocent victim, I
- say, and I'm gonna sue.
-
- Bullshit. That's all people do these days. Sue for their
- pain and suffering, work missed, time off, emotional crises, blah
- blah, blah. If you can't get them on criminal charges, bring up a
- civil suit. You're sure to win one way or the other. Look at the
- lady who bought hot coffee from McDonald's. She's rich now because
- she burned herself on a beverage that is supposed to be hot, and if
- it weren't, she would have bitched about that, too. Of course, you
- make more money when you get hurt. Bad service is just something one
- uses to get a free meal. She made money off the fact that she herself
- possessed no common sense. "I'll put this steaming hot coffee between
- my legs while I drive. Of course it won't spill when I take that one
- nasty corner." Stupid.
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- Now the compnay that made the fertilizer used in the Oklahoma
- City bombing is getting sued. What's wrong with this picture? Yes, it
- is an explosives company, true. But this suit insinuates that, had it
- not been for this _particluar_ brand of fertilizer, no lives would
- have been lost, no bombs would have been made. Yeah, right. You can
- use all sorts of neat little household materials to make bombs, and
- other fertilizers as well. So these people truly think that if it
- weren't for _this_ fertilizer none of this would have happened? Of
- course they don't. The bomb would have gone off no matter what type of
- explosive materials were used. The people responsible for this
- incident wanted it to happen. The trick is this: Send the criminals
- to jail to get emotional satisfaction and sue the company to get
- financial satisfaction. After all, the victims should get something
- out of this right?
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- Wrong. Why does a victim "deserve" anything? All these
- victims have a huge impact on our lives, but no one ever thinks about
- that. With some companies, you can sue them for a million dollars
- and it is pocket change. For others, even a thousand dollars would
- cause ruin. All these bullshit lawsuits do nothing except make
- a victim happy (and rich) and the company scared to do anything anymore.
- Sometimes even prices must be raised, jobs can be lost. Doctors
- won't do certain types of surgery anymore because of malpractice
- fears, and precious lives are lost. And why? Because someone got
- hurt or things didn't go they way they wanted them to, and they said,
- "I'm gonna sue."
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- Certainly not all civil suits are groundless or a waste of time
- or money. I am certain that many people out there who choose to sue
- an institution or an individual have a good reason to do so. What I
- am saying is that people need to wake up and realize that mistakes
- and accidents happen. They are a part of life. Compnies cannot control
- who uses their products and how they are used. It is impossible to
- monitor their clientele that closely. That woman who bought the hot
- coffee should have realized that sometimes liquids spill while you are
- in a moving vehicle so one should be careful. And if it does spill,
- so what? It was an accident. How far can you take all of this? I'm
- pretty sure that if the man who invented explosives were still alive,
- the Oklahoma City victims would have sued him too. More money, more
- press coverage, more reward for their suffering. That's the name
- of the lawsuit game. More is better, less is none.
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- I am going to close with a little story about a woman who could
- have sued and won, but didn't. A lady in her thirties got into a major
- accident and had both of her feet cut off at the ankles. She was
- rushed to the emergency room and her feet were successfully reattached.
- A few days later, they realized that they had been attached to the wrong
- legs. Now, this woman could have sued the hospital and its staff for
- millions of dollars and most certainly would have ended up with quite
- a hefty settlement. But she didn't do it. Why not? She said, "I'm so
- happy to be able to walk, who cares if my feet look a little funny? I
- know it was an accident." Due to an opertaing room error, this young woman
- is literally deformed for life. Now isn't this a little worse than
- getting burned by hot coffee? _You_ think about it.
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- DeMoNiKa
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