So a legal question: if he testified now before a hearing, could anything he said be considered unreliable due to his brain cancer? (Not that I think it would have been necessarily any more reliable before.)
Anyone know about the poor guy he hit? AFAIK, there has been no public information on the guy.
The Post says he’s an 86 year old who suffered a dislocated shoulder and is under observation.
It also says that Novak is retiring immediately.
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If true, my condolences to his family and people who care about him. I hope he manages to beat this or at least have a pain-free time of it.
Still, what the hell, I’m gonna my lone little conspiracy bus all the way to the end. No specific medical details, no comments yet by any hospital person other than the mere fact that he was discharged from the hospital. Weird. And none of the media mentions are going into any details either. With Kennedy we had info from doctors and medical experts aplenty. Admittedly Kennedy’s more of a national figure than Novak, but Novak’s a celebrity and usually these things are considered fair game.
So until Novak is actually at death’s door and we have some actual objective medical statements, I’m gonna hold out hope that Novak’s called in a favor from Cheney, who certainly owes him, and Cheney went to one of the plethora of medical personnel on his speed dial. Voila, Novak gets sympathy and escapes trial for the hit & run.
I like this scenario for a number of reasons, mainly because no one dies in it.
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If he’s faking it, he’s going to get caught. And when he does, he’s going to be ruined. He’ll face consequences far worse than the fine and civil settlement he would have had to pay for the hit and run. (In fact, he might still have to pay.) Novak is smart enough to know this. Your theory makes no sense.
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If he’s faking it, he’s going to get caught. And when he does, he’s going to be ruined. He’ll face consequences far worse than the fine and civil settlement he would have had to pay for the hit and run. (In fact, he might still have to pay.) Novak is smart enough to know this. Your theory makes no sense.
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He’s part of a big club that lives by the mantra “I can get away with it!”. Why should he give a fuck? He’ll get away with it.
-Joe
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He’s part of a big club that lives by the mantra “I can get away with it!”. Why should he give a fuck? He’ll get away with it.
-Joe
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But he won’t get away with it. He can’t get away with it. He knows that. And there’s no reason for him to try to get away with it. Does it really make sense that he’d go through all the trouble of faking cancer, with the years of lying and acting and paying people off that would entail, an effort that would almost certainly be exposed, just to get out of a fine and a civil suit that would be forgotten in a few months?
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Yeah, I’m a real ‘dick’ for halfway believing/holding out hope for/preferring an admittedly woo-woo conspiracy theory to his being ‘an old man dying of brain cancer’.
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Believe it or not, it’s possible to find a negative interpretation of your suggestion that Novak is so cheap and dishonest and stupid that he would pretend to have a lethal brain tumor just to avoid a traffic judgment he could probably afford easily, many times over. I guess you’re trying to be positive, but like I was saying, it doesn’t quite read that way.
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Believe it or not, it’s possible to find a negative interpretation of your suggestion that Novak is so cheap and dishonest and stupid that he would pretend to have a lethal brain tumor just to avoid a traffic judgment he could probably afford easily, many times over. I guess you’re trying to be positive, but like I was saying, it doesn’t quite read that way.
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To you.
I fully understood what the poster was trying to say.
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Talked about in this post and thread itself.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10044468&postcount=51
You’re welcome.
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Thank you.
I had stopped following that thread when it became a total car wreck.
He was a jerk of the highest order but I wouldn’t wish this on Rash Limpballs. He’s retired and fighting for his life, I wish him the best.