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Mom Makes Website, Gets Sued for $2 Million
An anonymous reader writes "A Canadian stay-at-home mom of 3 recently created a website to report on environmental problems around her neighborhood. The general public and governmental workers lauded her for her efforts. The environmental Ministry spokesman was even quoted as saying 'Obviously we can't have staff everywhere all the time, so we depend on the public out there as surrogate eyes and ears for the ministry'. However, not everyone was quite as happy, as she soon found out, when one company decided to sue her for libel to the tune of $2 million."
It has seemed to me, that over the past little while, that women are the only ones that seem to have enough backbones to stand up to the big corps. And typically its even the stay at home moms that are sterotypically not supposed to have such big Kahunas.
It also seems to me that the men are playing the part of the big a**hole. You can read that as the ones who do the sueing in the first place.
So, I just have to say, GO MOMS!!! Fight for our rights! We especially thank you since you are the only ones that seem to be doing it.
Maybe you'll shame some others to do the same thing as well.
Nice assumption about rich stay-at-home moms, but my family had five children, my mother stayed at home, and we lived below the poverty line. I think that's more typical than the rich "busy-body do-gooders". Sorry to burst your own little self-righteous bubble.
Five kids and a stay-at-home mom? Gee, I wonder why you were below the poverty line? What do you want, a medal for your mom being able to squirt out more kids than she could afford and not working to afford them?
I'm sorry to burst YOUR self-rightous bubble. I'm so god damned tired of these busy-body "I'm so holier than thou" types who think that they're the greatest gift to the planet, because they squatted out a kid or six. You've done nobody any favors by having children, becoming a parent or having more children than you can afford.
If this woman has multiple children, is able to stay at home and play on the internet all day, then she can't be all that poor. First clue? She has a computer and internet access and nothing better to do than police the neighborhood about vague "hazards" that she's pointing the finger at some company for causing.
Exactly what credentials does this woman have to be making such claims? Other than probably being a highschool or college dropout (so she could squeeze out a few kids in the last decade, of course), what qualifies her to be able to go out and lob these kind of accusations against a company?
But sure, if you want to mod my intial post down, because you have this intrinsic belief that everything a parent does is wonderful and should be rewarded, fine. I just happen to think that this chick is a busy body spouting off about things and pointing the finger at a company with questional evidence (which I can't verify, since her site is inaccessible).
Yea, here the site would be down and she would be dead already.
Don't mess with a US corporation, we even goto war for them.
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
What if she's wrong? What if she's LIBELLING this company? It happens.
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How was I able to categorize her? This is how:
Her claims are bullshit:
The statement of claim outlines stories by Lanteigne involving diesel oil spills on subdivision sites, unlocked oil tanks, roofers working without proper safety equipment and possible contamination of soil and water.
Do you see why I keep saying she's a nosey busy-body do-gooder?
What do roofers without proper safety equipment have to do with the safety of her children? What do locked oil tanks have to do with the safety of her children? Why is she letting her childrne play on a construction site? This chick sounds like the kind of person who would call the EPA because your jeep is leaking oil in your own driveway or she doesn't think you have proper city permits to build-out your bedroom extension on your own house.
But of course, I'm called a troll by all the people who obviously DO NOT care to find out what's going on. OH MY GOD! Roofers not wearing proper protective gear! Unlocked oil tanks on a CONSTRUCTION SITE...! Won't someone think of the children?! The... uh... children.. uh... roofers...?