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New York Judge Rules 6-Year-Old Can Be Sued
suraj.sun sends this snippet from Reuters:
"A girl can be sued over accusations she ran over an elderly woman with her training bicycle when she was 4 years old, a New York Supreme Court justice has ruled. The ruling by King's County Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten stems from an incident in April 2009 when Juliet Breitman and Jacob Kohn, both aged four, struck an 87-year-old pedestrian, Claire Menagh, with their training bikes. Menagh underwent surgery for a fractured hip and died three months later. In a ruling made public late Thursday, the judge dismissed arguments by Breitman's lawyer that the case should be dismissed because of her young age. He ruled that she is old enough to be sued and the case can proceed."
You cold calloused bastard, the collision and operation was a major contributing factor. Lucky, in your future, you can look forward at 87, to forced euthanasia and your nutrients being used as fertilizer. Who modded this up Score:5 Insightfull
I don't find it hard to blame the mom. An accident is a foreseeable consequence of letting a 4 year old ride a bike unattended. 87 year old ladies don't spring out of nowhere.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
ITT: WAY too many people who have never had children, telling others how they would have handled their own imaginary children.
Shrug, it's your own fault. You chose to be part of that community, you knew lawyers are generally cunts and as a community you continually make the situation worse by pursuing stupid cases and demanding new shit laws.
The USA really has gone to the sewer!