# ''60 Minutes:'' How dare you criticize the amount of our jury awards! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852 "2002-12-10T21:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/1 "2002-12-10T21:30:13Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/12/10/jurors.lawsuit.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/12/10/jurors.lawsuit.ap/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/2 "2002-12-10T21:34:20Z")
Oh goodness. My Ironotron 3Q-B irony meter just made a shrieking noise and then exploded through the roof of my home. I’ll have to check the manual… LC ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/3 "2002-12-10T21:34:53Z")
I like that they asked for $6 billion dollars in punitive damages. Anything less would have been inconsistent. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/4 "2002-12-11T00:31:07Z")
It’s a good thing that none of them knew the word “trillion” or, God Forbid, “quadrillion”, or they probably would have asked for that much instead. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/5 "2002-12-11T00:52:22Z")
_:: snort ::_ This guy in a bar accused me of being too violent. So I beat the crap out of him. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/6 "2002-12-11T06:50:31Z")
Speaking of which, did that lawsuit by the 9/11 families for more money than there is in the whole world get thrown out yet? ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/7 "2002-12-11T14:08:37Z")
I think someone should sue the citizens of that county for being stupid and demand that they stop breeding for the good of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/60-minutes-how-dare-you-criticize-the-amount-of-our-jury-awards/141852/8 "2002-12-11T14:55:14Z")
And here I am working 40 hours a week, when I could be suing my way to financial freedom, because heaven-forbid someone, somewhere disagrees with something I did…