My nominee for asshat du jour is Mary Ellen Michaels who ran into a 7 year old boy on his bike, and sued him, his Grammy, and his parents. My rolleyes allotment is empty.
At least she’s been getting tossed out of court. Wonder how much this is going to run her.
I don’t suppose that there is any way that the lawyer can be penalized for this. Maybe if the Supreme Court tosses her out, she’ll find another lawyer to sue her first lawyer for wasting her money.
And at least this is keeping her off the streets.
The wardrobe malfunction in the second story is funnier.
Suing the kid is pointless; he doesn’t have any money (I assume), and won’t until he’s at least 18.
And the suit’s dead already; the trial and appellate courts have both dismissed it, and unless there’s some crucial fact that’s not in the article, there’s no way the Ohio Supreme Court will grant certiorari.
She should be forced to write “I will not squander judicial resources, clogging up the court system” one hundred thousand times.
Just goes to show. Justice is blind.
Bah dum bump!
The best part is the subhead:
“Woman says little bastard must pay for tragic rollerblading mishap.”
Maybe she should have used the same lawyer as the woman who sued the teenage girls who left cookies and paper hearts on her porch. At least she won. :rolleyes:
Wasn’t that small claims court?
Oh, Biblio, check your e-mail. I tried to answer your question.
And I live in Northeast Ohio, where this happened.
Lucky me.
My only defense is that I’m a transplant, and I’ve only lived here for a year.
E.
She ran into him after he stopped, and she is suing? She and her shyster should be tarred and feathered. I hope they at least get socked for all the court costs.
In my younger days, we had “issues” with rollerbladers sometimes too, but we handled it differently. It was hurling insults and yelling “watch where the hell yer going”.
You know, I get the impression that she was not in full control as she was rollerblading. If the kid wasn’t obeying her command to clear a path for her why didn’t she just slow down until it was safe to get to full speed again?
Of course, since it seems that people are no longer responsible for their own actions Ms Micheals had no choice but to sue.
To add to the pile-on:
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This is on a bike-path. It may be a media term for what is actaully a ‘multi-use trail’ but even so it adds up to the same thing: Bladers yield to Bikes who yield to Peds. That’s fairly universal unless Ohio is some kind of bastion of rollerblading privelege. Hence it was not up to the kid to yield to her.
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If she is able to yell to pass him, she had enough time to slow down. This would have meant she might have negotiated around him without accident, or at least lessened injury.
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Simple Fact: There are kids on bike trails (or multi-use paths). They can be unpredictable. You have to deal with that. I have had to when I use them, and I have never had a serious incident. Why? Because I don’t try to power my way past kids, and when I see kids I assume they are going to meander in front of me. The trail does not belong to me, this woman seems to feel it belongs to her.
Conclusion: This woman was powerblading and unwilling to let anything mess up her speed thrill. She fucked up passing under unsafe conditions and now wants to blame everyone but herself.
My hope: Eventually she hits a judge who rules that she must pay for the kids lawyer fees, and maybe his college tuition.
I also enjoyed the second story, which included a wonderful put-down line to use when confronted with a weenie-wagger:
““What’s that?” she asked him.”. :wally
Ummm…
I think this story is fictional. I cannot find any other reference to it anywhere except two less-than-reliable-looking sites where it’s repeated verbatim.
Without conformation, it sounds like bullshit.
I’m willing to bet that if the roles were reversed, the boy would have won the suit.
Wow, if this story is true (I just suggest that it isn’t because of the . . . unorthodox . . . style of reporting in the piece - is this a satire piece?) then the woman oughta be put down. First she endangers some kid innocently using a bike path, then she sues? I hope that leg she broke falls off.