If you're stupid enough to be trying to steal from a vending machine, by SHAKING the thing, and tips over do to your own actions, and kills you, you DESERVE it. The Coke machine did the human race a FAVOR by delecting your idiot genes.
Injury suffered during the commission of a crime, either by cut glass, or slipping on the floor, or being attacked by an enraged homeowner, should be classified 'tough shit' and unsue-able for.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
I get the old "Bad request..." error
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Okay, on the one hand I can understand some of the anguish. A loved-one was crushed to death by a vending machine where the parties involved knew that they were defective and prone to tipping over.
But on the other hand, I agree completely (although maybe not as strongly) with First of Two. The guy was in the act of committing a crime. He was doing this while intoxicated. It was his own fault for aggravating the situation.
I've known since I was like ten years old that you don't mess with vending machines! I kicked a machine that took my quarter once and wouldn't give it back. Momma Siegfried whacked me upside the head and said, "Don't do that! What are you, retarded?"
I don't know. Something in the back of mind says you just don't mess with a five-hundred pound machine. That's the same voice that tells me not to go into a seedy roadhouse and taunt the Hell's Angels with comments like, "I had your mom last night and she was sweeeeeeet!"
Geez. Tort Reform: A Very Good Idea.
[ July 11, 2001: Message edited by: Siegfried ]
Posted by MIB (Member # 426) on :
I got a better story for you. Once a pun a time some stupid kid trespassed into someone else's property. While he was there he decided it would be fun to stick a lit match down into the person's car's gas tank. Not surprisingly, it exploded, either killing or injuring the tresspasser. I'm not sure which. Anyways. The family sued the people whos car exploded in front of the kids face. The family won.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I couldn't see the article, but I can gather what it must be about.
Next thing you know, people will be suing rope manufacturers every time a family member hangs him/her/itself.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
These guys are better off in the Darwin Awards. Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
MIB: The Judge who awarded the settlement to the family of the er...... "victim" needs brain surgury for sure. Any sane judge would have thrown out the case then retire to his chambers to expel a fit of laughter.
The owners of the car should sue the family back for damage of property (their car), punitive damages, mental anguish over loss of car etc. etc. etc. So if they win, things would be even.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
The company could just secure the machines. It's not that hard.
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
No. Let evolution take its proper course. Let the stupid get squashed. The world will be a better place for it, trust me. Posted by Jeff The Card (Member # 411) on :
You would think that in a university dorm, where students are drinking, the university would realize that, hey, drunks do stupid things, let's put up a "L" bracket and hold that machine in place ...
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
The University cannot predict everything. At my university, the only vending machines that are secured are those in the dorms. Every vending machine warns students about not shaking the machine to get a free pop or whatever as it can (in big bold letters) TIP OVER.
And it made the local news too. Bleah!!!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Well, university dorms are breeding grounds for stupidity. Trust me, I've lived in them for four years and even worked in them for two years. So many stories that prove natural selection is a good thing.
Let's see, there's the woman who had a snake in her room (against the rules) and decided to throw a towel over the terrarium instead of just shutting the lamp off. Towel caught fire, she threw it under her bed.
Then there were the two guys who decided to smoke marijuana in their room. They lit up but forgot to turn their oscillating fan off. The fan blew the smoke straight into the smoke detector.
Then there was the guy in the room right above me who snuck in some firecrackers (big no-no). He set them down on his desk near his lit candle (big no-no). The firecrackers light up, so in a panic he throws them into his microwave.
My university used to have the 1980's built soft drink machines. They got replaced by new fancy models a couple years ago when Coca-Cola became the official soft drink supplier for the university.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
How on earth do you through something into a microwave in panic? In the bin, yes. Under the bed, I can understand. Out the window seems logical. But into the microwave? Crazy.
Posted by Mr. Christopher (Member # 71) on :
The vending machines at my school are secured with brackets...
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Well, in the case of firecrackers, I can undertand throwing them in the microwave. It's a contained space. When they go off, the explosion won't hit you (unless they're strong enough to explode the microwave, of course).
As for Jeff said, my opinion would be "Drunk people do stupid things. Let's provide as many opportunities as possible for those stupid things to get them killed.". :-)
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I don't know why the guy thought putting them in the microwave was a good idea. I don't know why he thought setting down an explosive medium next to a candle was a good idea. This guy wasn't real bright. He got into serious trouble earlier in the year when he went up to a girls' floor at 2am and ran around the hallway screaming with his pants and underwear down around his ankles. He couldn't understand why he was in any sort of trouble.
Anyway, he tossed the firecrackers into his microwave. The force from the 'cracker broke out the glass in the door of the 'wave. This was at 4am. Since I lived under him, I got the joy of being woken up by shattering glass, the sounds of what I though was gunfire, and then the fire alarms going off.
I was mad as hell. That was my night on-call and I had just gotten to sleep about an hour earlier (prior to that I was handling nonsense elsewhere because a girl decided to have sex with her boyfriend in the showers of her girls-only bathroom. It was a wild night.
Posted by Jeff The Card (Member # 411) on :
I'm guessing you were an RA?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Ee-yep. I was an RA for just about a full year. The firecracker incident happened during my time as the desk manager. It was a love-hate job to be sure.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
TSN Said: As for Jeff said, my opinion would be "Drunk people do stupid things. Let's provide as many opportunities as possible for those stupid things to get them killed.". :-)
Fine. Just be sure that they don't kill anyone else while they are at it.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I people didn't do stupid things. then everyone else would have nothing to laugh at. and the world would be a very boring place.
Posted by Jeff The Card (Member # 411) on :
Thanks for reminding us of your role in life, Da-Bang ... Posted by The_Evil_Lord (Member # 256) on :
I'd prefer that to the absolute BULLSHIT claimculture that has grown like a tumor over the years. Sometimes I wonder if people who sue [insert what applies] should be allowed to breed. Where do we draw the line, if we start awarding $35729572192,45 in damages to victims of their own goddamned stupidity?!
I call that intelligence, wrangling that much money from some big corporation, actually. How do you call someone stupid when they get more money then Bill Gates?
Shit, I'd settle for a renovated brownstone on Beacon Street ...
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I call it a very strange looking number.
Posted by Jeff The Card (Member # 411) on :
That too.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I think it was an hyperbole.
Posted by Jeff The Card (Member # 411) on :
That's just a strange looking Forumite ...
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote: an hyperbole
That's a dangerous animal!
Posted by The_Evil_Lord (Member # 256) on :
But you all got the point. RIGHT?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
There was something on the news the other day about a woman who put her cat in the microwave because it scratched her.
Erm... Did you even read the article? It was even worse. The cat did nothing. A flea that supposedly came off the cat bit the lady...
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Yes, actually, I did read the article. However, the source I originally heard this story from said it had scratched her. I wrote that paragraph, then went looking for the link, then forgot to modify my earlier statement. Christ, Tim, you seriously need to get a life and stop being so literal all the time. . .
Anyway. Regardless of what the cat did or didn't do, there's no excuse for doing what this woman did.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
This from the guy about whom Wes kept complaining, because you kept correcting him? What you said was incorrect. I corrected it. If you can't handle being wrong, fuck off.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Has the long hot summer destroyed our love for each other?
Play nice.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I blame the rock music the kids are listening to these days.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
The lizard from Dr. Dolittle 2 said it best in the movie trailer (I haven't actually seen the movie), "So young and angry. Curse that rap music!"
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: There was something on the news the other day about a woman who put her cat in the microwave because it scratched her.
Fucking sadistic cunt.
fucking sadistic DRUNK cunt. that's what she is. 7 can's of beer and nearly 2 bottles of wine?
Posted by MeGotBeer (Member # 411) on :
That's not drunk. That's "getting started."
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Actually, that's on the way to a large headache.
Beer on wine, feel fine. Wine on beer, feel queer.
