# I slipped on your dog's slobber (or piss)...

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 19, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-slipped-on-your-dogs-slobber-or-piss/149583 "2003-01-19T03:39:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-slipped-on-your-dogs-slobber-or-piss/149583/1 "2003-01-19T03:39:30Z")

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Thank god that judges have the power to set aside idiotic verdicts handed down by asinine juries.

[PetSmart lawsuit](http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story143112.html)

I deserve $100,000 for slipping on your dog’s piss.

Um… I mean…

I deserve $40,000 for slipping on your dog’s “foamy, creamy saliva”

Um… I mean…

I’ll take the $10,000 that a jury decided I should receive because Ihave hired a lawyer who can obviously talk anybody into believing anything.

**WRONG-O!!!**

Thank you, Judge Charlie Dorsey, for restoring a small bit of hope that the legal system does work rationally.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-slipped-on-your-dogs-slobber-or-piss/149583/2 "2003-01-19T03:50:05Z")

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Egad.

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> “An honest accident is what I had, and I didn’t get a red cent out of it,” Sowder said. “Now it makes me look like some kind of … suing a company trying to get a bunch of money.”

Um, yeah, it does, kind of. :rolleyes:

And hey, I slipped and sprained my ankle a while ago, and I didn’t get a red cent out of _that_, either. Isn’t it my God-given right to make a profit out of accidents?

And, um, what?

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> Sowder testified Thursday that she continued to shop at the store even after her injury, partly because of its good prices on cat food.

Okayyy…