In this entry of Life Here & There, I’m not going to compare the USA to the Philippines. Instead, I’ll pick on a neighbor to the north of the Philippines in Japan. We get enough exposure to some Japanese shows to capture their rather funny humor.
Here is one example of a show in Japan:
That has me cracking up every time I watch it. I also realize that such pranks will never happen here because of the lack of sensibility that is increasing in the USA. So many are losing their grasp on sanity that being in such a prank would definitely result in a lawsuit.
Why do I say that? You only need to look at the utterly ridiculous cases that have gone through or are going through the US court system. I’ll give you five examples with 3 that succeeded and 2 that are in progress.
First, a burglar attempted to break into a house through the skylight. He made a mistake and ended up falling through the skylight and broke his leg upon landing in his targeted victim’s house. He was arrested for Breaking and Entering after the owner of the house called the police. What happened? The injured burglar sued the owner of the home because the burglar got injured on his property. The burglar won and was awarded millions – for breaking the law!!
Second, a lady spilled hot coffer on her lap. She purchased it and drank it at McDonalds. See an issue? I don’t. But she sued McDonalds because she spilled the hot coffee and it burned her. She won $2.4 million dollars that later got reduced to $640,000. So she was rewarded for being a clutz and an idiot. Hot coffee is hot and will burn. Duh! If you spill it on yourself, how is that the fault of the company?
Third, we turn to New Jersey for a truly mind boggling case. An ILLEGAL immigrant sued his employer in a court of LAW for not paying him minimum wage – and won. So a COURT OF LAW rewarded the ILLEGAL immigrant who was employed ILLEGALLY and rewarded by the JUDGE. Call me silly but I though the Court of Law and Judges were supposed to UPHOLD the LAW not reward breaking it!
Fourth, let us continue on the quality of judges in the USA. In this pending case, a former judge in Washington D.C. is attempting to sue his dry cleaner for $54 million because the dry cleaner lost a pair of his pants. Why $54 million for a pair of pants? The better question is what kind of garbage cases did this former judge allow into the legal system? With insane judges like this, you can’t trust the courts.
Lastly, we will turn to another pending court case involving a surgeon. In this case, the surgeon had donated one of his kidneys to his wife. His wife had an affair and they are now headed to divorce. What does the surgeon want? He wants his donated kidney back or be paid for his kidney.
I thought you were supposed to be able to trust the courts, judges and surgeons. Knowing how insane it has gotten in the USA, I wouldn’t be surprised if an atheist tried to sue for their own holiday. Wait, we just got a call from my mother-in-law…. An atheist did try to sue the country because there isn’t a holiday for them. The atheist lost his case and got ridiculed in court. The judge told him atheists already have a holiday – April Fool’s Day.
In my humble opinion, any attorney who brings any case like any of the above to court should be disbarred and forfeit their careers.
Thank you,
Anah
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Amen Len! This took me laughing my guts out.
There the lawyer’s job taking part mostly. We the ordinary people think there is no law case from our idiotry. The lawyers don’t. Every silly thing bring bad to us is a case for them, especially when it’s involving ‘big fish’ companies.
I had a friend a few years back who had a son in a private school. The son broke his leg (in a bicycle accident not involving the school), and was hobbling around on crutches for a number of weeks.
My friend was APPROACHED by the ACLU, who wanted her to sue the school to install wheelchair ramps to help him negotiate the area.
I happened to be there when they called upon her. She chewed them up one side and down the other, and threatened to sue THEM (she had no case against them, but she made her viewpoint loud and clear!). They definitely picked the wrong person to approach. She pointed out to them that one of the bad things about breaking a leg was that one had problems getting around. It was best for the child to LEARN HOW to get around without assistance… and maybe to be more careful in the future so he didn’t break his leg again.
My point on this story is that there ARE LAWYERS out there who will approach otherwise sensible people and con them into starting a trivial lawsuit with the promise of money–never mind that the lawyer would get most of it. In the case of my friend, she didn’t bite because her son was going to a private school that was not subject to federal disability laws. The attempt to shake down the school went down like a lead balloon. The whole point of sending her son to a private school was to keep the feds out of his education.
Thank you Mamapajamas, busby and Sheng for the comments.
Mama p, your account is something to be expected here unfortunately. It does bring to mind one of the best jokes regarding attorneys.
“What do you get when you line up all of the attorneys head to foot around the Equator?”
Answer:
“A better and more peaceful world.” (Especially when you factor in the vast majority of the equator runs over oceans….)