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BrAiN
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someone explain to me how this is possible?
#7687518 - 11/27/07 06:25 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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*Breathes fresh air*
AHhhHH... It feels good to live in a country where it's been years since we've heard of any multimillion dollar frivilous lawsuits whe..
huh? Oops.. Shit I guess I was wrong:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=92929
I don't get it. HOW THE FUCK DO JUDGES KEEP AWARDING PEOPLE WITH UNGODLY AMOUNTS OF MONEY LIKE THIS?
Someone PLEASE explain to me how someone who's had years of legal training can be retarded enough to grant 6 million dollars to someone who was strip searched as a joke? Or how someone gets millions of dollars over a spilled cup of coffee?
In the above example I *can* understand to some degree a judge thinking that Mccy d's should be FINED for 6 million dollars... but to GIVE THAT MUCH money to the victim is retarded.
(Throws a rubber glove on the ground)
Someone... please... feel my nuts so I can become a millionaire!
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: BrAiN]
#7687578 - 11/27/07 06:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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McTorts. If you like that one you'll really love this:
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During her divorce proceedings, Bonnie repeatedly claimed that Doug Richardson was the father of her child, but the child told Doug that Bonnie stated that Abraham Flores was his real father. The court refused Doug’s request for a continuance to obtain counsel to assist in contesting paternity. The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed. A paternity test excluded Doug as a possible father of the child. Bonnie resumed living with Abraham, but Doug was forced to pay child support into the household of the child’s real father. Later, Bonnie and Abraham broke up with a formal change of custody from Bonnie to Abraham. The Michigan State Court ordered Doug, the nonfather, to pay child support directly to Abraham, the biological father.
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=10293#more-10293
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BrAiN
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: zappaisgod]
#7687974 - 11/27/07 08:03 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Doug should have gone on Maury
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: BrAiN]
#7688410 - 11/27/07 09:48 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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A United States jury awarded $6.1 million Friday to a McDonald's employee who was strip-searched in a hoax that had been played on dozens of fast-food restaurants across the country, local media reported...
A female assistant manager told Ogborn to strip when she got a call from a man pretending to be a police officer who said Ogborn was accused of stealing a purse and could either be searched at the store or arrested and searched in jail.
Over the course of nearly four hours she was spanked and sexually humiliated at the direction of a man who called himself "Officer Scott" while she cried in the office of the restaurant. Her clothes and car keys were taken away from her.
Are you stupid?
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BrAiN
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: MushmanTheManic]
#7688461 - 11/27/07 10:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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You don't think 6 million dollars is a LITTLE excessive?
My fiance is on workman's comp and can barely do anything work related because of all her pain which she'll be in for a long time... and we're battling with a lawyer just to get more than $10,000 from the company (of which she would only get 1/3)... There are probably 10's of thousands of people in situations like this as well around America.
And some poor girl gets humiliated one night and gets 6 million dollars? FUCK THAT SHIT
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: BrAiN]
#7688547 - 11/27/07 10:28 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i think I saw this on a 20/20 type news magaizne show. it happened in 'tucky right? i remember that the girl was pretty cute. and the guy who spanked her (the managers husband, i think?) got some jail time.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: BrAiN]
#7689139 - 11/28/07 02:52 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I've always felt that punitive damages in civil cases should be donated to charity. That neither plaintiff or lawyer should benefit from the reward. (Punitive only, not compensation for actual losses.)
I also think it would help if the amount being sought is stated up front, once the trial starts it cannot settle, and the loser, regardless of side, has to pay. If you sue somebody for 50million, and you lose, you will owe 50million.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: Seuss]
#7689164 - 11/28/07 03:29 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I think I saw the video of this happening. They molested that girl. 6 mil may seem excessive, but who gives a shit, it's Mcdonalds, they have tons of money.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: BrAiN]
#7689828 - 11/28/07 10:39 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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BrAiN said: You don't think 6 million dollars is a LITTLE excessive?
My fiance is on workman's comp and can barely do anything work related because of all her pain which she'll be in for a long time... and we're battling with a lawyer just to get more than $10,000 from the company (of which she would only get 1/3)... There are probably 10's of thousands of people in situations like this as well around America.
And some poor girl gets humiliated one night and gets 6 million dollars? FUCK THAT SHIT
I'm in rabid disagreement with you. They really fucked with that girl, and I'm not into blaming a victim at all. She deserves more money than she got.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7689856 - 11/28/07 10:46 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I just think there are plenty of other situations where people are more deserving of 6 million dollars than someone who was humiliated like this.
I'd give her enough money to cover any kind of therapy she needed and maybe an extra 100 grand tops.
Tell me.. what could she possibly need/deserve 6 million for? Why not 4 million? Is 4 million not enough? 5 million not enough?
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7689916 - 11/28/07 11:04 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Madtowntripper said:
I'm in rabid disagreement with you. They really fucked with that girl, and I'm not into blaming a victim at all. She deserves more money than she got.
I do not understand how McDonald's can be blamed for actions that they had no control over.
IMO people should not be rewarded for being stupid.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: lonestar2004]
#7689941 - 11/28/07 11:14 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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lonestar2004 said: I do not understand how McDonald's can be blamed for actions that they had no control over.
IMO people should not be rewarded for being stupid.
I was under the impression that the girl was an employee, and her manager was the one who took the phone call. The manager accused the girl of stealing and made her take her clothes off, then watched while the manager's husband sexually abused the girl.
This girl was ordered to do these things in the context of an employee-management relationship. I dont see how the company can NOT be held liable.
You can say that the girl should have had the good judgement to refuse to do these things. But the onus is on the manager to behave appropriately. And there is no question that she didn't.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7689968 - 11/28/07 11:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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damn this was fucked up. i changed my mind I'm with you Madtowntripper that poor girl should have got more $$$$$$$$$
McDonalds Stripsearch
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=802122655

They hit her for more than 10 minutes. It involved sodomy and forcing to spread her legs and jump up and down. not enough people went to jail.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: Madtowntripper]
#7689980 - 11/28/07 11:26 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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> I was under the impression that the girl was an employee, and her manager was the one who took the phone call.
From what I remember, it was also claimed that the prank calls had been going on for a while with other McDonalds in the area, that corporate McDonalds knew about it, and that they didn't take any measures to warn the workers in the area about the prank calls.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: Seuss]
#7690041 - 11/28/07 11:38 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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6.1 million to get stripped searched over the phone? That's the best thing that'll ever happen to that girl. Shit... Somebody call me and I'll start taking my clothes off.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7690196 - 11/28/07 12:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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i'm already naked. where's the money?
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: BrAiN]
#7690382 - 11/28/07 12:36 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nobody wants to argue that he girl should hold some responsibility for being so fucking stupid?
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: TheHateCamel]
#7690402 - 11/28/07 12:40 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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McDonald's is not known for hiring the best and brightest. However, if that caller had tried to pull that shit at Wendy's it would have never flown.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: RandalFlagg]
#7690423 - 11/28/07 12:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Or White Castle
mmmm.. white castle burgers... I was in NY this weekend and I failed to stop by one. I hang my head in shame.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: lonestar2004]
#7690565 - 11/28/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I can't believe this happened. I am thoroughly disgusted. It is a good thing that I am not an aquaintance with the victim, because if I were, that rapist piece of shit would be in intensive care and I would be in jail.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: TheHateCamel]
#7690593 - 11/28/07 01:37 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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TheHateCamel said: Nobody wants to argue that he girl should hold some responsibility for being so fucking stupid?
No. The girl was clearly threatened and coerced. She did not enter into the situation willingly. She was scared/tricked into taking her clothes off, and then was physically and sexually abused. She holds exactly zero responsibility.
I don't understand the mentality it requires to be exposed to a case of abuse and, instead of getting angry at the people who commit the crime, you get angry at the victim because she sought revenge in the form of a lawsuit. Good for her. I hope she buys herself something nice to offset having an old fat disgusting pervert beat her while she was naked.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: gluke bastid]
#7690673 - 11/28/07 01:53 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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This isn't exactly a case of someone spilling coffee on themselves.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: gluke bastid]
#7690770 - 11/28/07 02:11 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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What makes you think I'm angry at her?
You don't think she holds any responsiblity at all?
I think it's fine she won the case. If McDonalds had simply sent out a memo it probably wouldn't have happened.
She was 18 at the time though, an adult, presumably old enough to know that a cop can't call the McDonalds she works at and have the managers husband strip and spank her.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: TheHateCamel]
#7690901 - 11/28/07 02:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I got the impression you were directing anger at her when you called her "fucking stupid," when it seems like the anger should be directed at the criminal and at McDonald's for not doing anything to stop this even though it happened like 17 times in the past.
I won't say that she isn't at least partly responsible. If she had ran out of the McDonald's she wouldn't have experienced any of this. But that isn't the same thing as saying she should be held responsible.
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: TheHateCamel]
#7690918 - 11/28/07 02:49 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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TheHateCamel said: What makes you think I'm angry at her?
You don't think she holds any responsiblity at all?
I think it's fine she won the case. If McDonalds had simply sent out a memo it probably wouldn't have happened.
She was 18 at the time though, an adult, presumably old enough to know that a cop can't call the McDonalds she works at and have the managers husband strip and spank her.
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I think this also goes for the management at the McDonalds that were directly involved.
This is like the Jerky Boys version of the Stanford Prison Experiment...how fucking retarded are these people?
Suess' statement previously about predetermined punitive damages and loser-pays (which I agree and disagree with) made me think that the guy who was on the phone and performing this shit should, himself, be responsible for part of that fine for being a fucking idiot.
it just baffles the mind how absolutely stupid some people are...
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: TheHateCamel]
#7690920 - 11/28/07 02:49 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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She was 18 at the time though, an adult, presumably old enough to know that a cop can't call the McDonalds she works at and have the managers husband strip and spank her.
You never know with the patriot act and all
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Re: someone explain to me how this is possible? [Re: Arp]
#7695677 - 11/29/07 05:04 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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the assistant manager getting a 1 mill award is really ridiculous.
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