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I don't know about regarding to those things, but part of the fact of things is that people are sueing fast food restaurants for making them fat. I mean, hello. Cigarette packages CLEARLY state, or may as well state, "if you smoke and continue to do so, IT WILL KILL YOU", and yet people are still sueing them for causing cancer. Yeah, they sold it to you, but they also used half the dang package to tell you how bad it is for you. Who's at fault there?
If someone drowns in your pool after climbing your ten foot brick wall to get in there, they can sue you! You should have put a sign up on that ten foot wall. BUT THEN, if you had a sign up, then you KNEW that the pool was a danger! So you are even more at fault. Same with beware of dog signs. No sign, shoulda warned me. Sign, knew you had a vicious dog, even put up a sign telling about it, didn't keep the dog from biting me when I came into your yard to steal your something or other.
People are winning lawsuits for ridiculous amounts of money by suing for things that are even more ridiculous than the money they'll get from it.
The real problem....lawyers
Do very little work, take 40% of that money. They promote it and do all they can to make it happen. Why wouldn't they, they're making 40% plus about a gillion dollars an hour.
I mean, anything remotely requiring a lawyer, no matter how simple, and how little the lawyer has to do, is going to cost an enormous amount of money. And don't think that your court date for whatever it is won't get delayed at least 10 or 15 times, all the while the lawyer went there to hear that it was delayed, costing the client even more money.
No, I haven't been to court lately or anything like that, I just know how it works....
Sorry for the rant and hijacking the thread, you just hit on one of my nerves. What I mean to say, only in a few less words is:
I agree.
