# Talk about your frivolous lawsuits! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 21, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084 "2001-09-21T20:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/1 "2001-09-21T20:18:56Z")
From this weeks [News of the Weird](http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive) > [@](#): > > High Court Judge Griffith Williams ruled in July that Christina Coles, 21, of Kent, England, was entitled to compensation (amount to be determined) to help raise her daughter Rebecca, now 3, to be paid by the driver of a car that hit Coles’ car in 1995. Coles apparently demonstrated that Rebecca would never have been born except that the collision caused Coles a memory loss, which contributed to why Coles forgot to take her birth-control pills. Furthermore, Judge Williams issued the ruling even though he found that Coles was 75 percent at fault for the original collision. [Scottish Daily Record, 7-27-01] I mean, WTF?! That guy needs to sue the automobile company for making the car and the dealership for selling it to him, both of which directly lead to his having the vehicle at the time of the accident. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/2 "2001-09-21T20:28:57Z")
Everybody knows a 17 year old wouldn’t have forgotton to do something otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/3 "2001-09-21T20:47:11Z")
… There’s just _no_ personal responsibility in the world anymore, is there? ---
**Author:** ![Zoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6de8d8/32.png) [@Zoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoff)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/4 "2001-09-21T20:48:30Z")
Wow, that’s a pretty generous causation theory. I find it amazing that the judge would ignore intervening causes of the pregnancy like, oh say, some guy fucking Ms. Coles. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/5 "2001-09-21T21:10:02Z")
And what about the birth control pill manufacturer? Shouldn’t _they_ be liable for not reminding her to take her pill every day? Perhaps her doctor? They should have stapled her pills to her forhead so that she would see them every morning when she fell out of whomevers bed she was in and wandered down to the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/6 "2001-09-21T21:32:22Z")
The doctor should have been calling her every day to remind her to take her pill! Where is HIS/HER responsibility? Huh??? ---
**Author:** ![Spiritus\_Mundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Spiritus\_Mundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiritus_Mundi)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/7 "2001-09-21T21:34:07Z")
. . . as the “compensation to be determined later”. Something like, “a laugh in the face and 50 pence to phone someone with a clue”. Probably not, though, _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![buddy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@buddy1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddy1)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/8 "2001-09-22T00:52:15Z")
I didn’t knoe that GB was as screwed up as the USA! I really thought that english judges had sense! Of course, the awrd wasn’t much…when will we see tobacco lawsuits in the UK? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/9 "2001-09-22T01:10:08Z")
Sorry, don’t buy it. Sounds phony. Anyone have a cite more authoratative than “Mark Shepard’s News of the Weird”? ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-about-your-frivolous-lawsuits/83084/10 "2001-09-22T01:22:46Z")
And more authoritative than the Scottish _Daily Record_. I read that rag fairly often - it’s hardly a reliable source.