Posted on 08/05/2014 7:11:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
JOPLIN, MO. -- A Joplin woman whose husband and two children were killed in the May 2011 tornado that destroyed much of the community is suing the big-box store where they died.
The Joplin Globe reports Home Depot’s lawyers contend the tornado packing 200 mph winds was an act of God and that the defendants were not liable for the deaths.
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I am sorry for her loss, but the whole town was flattened, including a hospital. I can’t see how Home depot was responsible.
“Act of God”
So Home Depot is claiming to be a religiously grounded corporation?
I feel bad for her loss, but it’s not Home Depot’s fault that an EF-5 twister struck that store with full force.
What a frivolous lawsuit. Hope homedepot countersues for defamation. Hey lady, how about basic tornado precaution? Anyone who dies in a tornado with ample warning and media awareness has to be completely irresponsible. How about taking care of your own life before expecting others to do it for you?
This is America...It’s ALWAYS somebody else’s fault.
Act of God
An event that directly and exclusively results from the occurrence of natural causes that could not have been prevented by the exercise of foresight or caution; an inevitable accident.
Courts have recognized various events as acts of God—tornadoes, earthquakes, death, extraordinarily high tides, violent winds, and floods. Many insurance policies for property damage exclude from their protection damage caused by acts of God.
Who goes shopping during a tornado?
So...she’s saying the Home Depot employee should have just ushered them out of the story and said, “Good Luck?”
That dates to an age when the courts and corporations respected the notion of God.
Today it is a subject of ridicule, scorn, and disbelief from “The Establishment”.
You really need to sue the dictionary. Seriously.
Guess we know now.
Agreed. But you can still be negligent. Not saying they were, but am sure that’s the argument. May have been something unique they did, or failed to do, that was the proximate cause of the death. Always tough without seeing the pleadings.
Why in the world is she blaming a store for a tornado’s destruction? I did not know a store caused them. Wow
Do you live where tornadoes are common? From that question, I doubt it.
‘During a tornado’ is usually a fifteen minute time frame. Maybe your question was intended to be “Who goes shopping during a storm that can produce a tornado?” and the answer to that is everyone who lives in places where tornadoes are common during the different tornado seasons.
Unlike a hurricane or even heavy flooding, there is no way to predict when or where a tornado will form before it is in progress.
The tens of thousands of people in Joplin who were at retail stores at 5:30 in the evening on that Sunday were just living their lives. Yes it was storming, but storms are a part of life in the Midwest and you can’t hunker down in your house every time there is a dark cloud on the horizon. You could, but that is all you would be doing for days at a time in these places.
“You really need to sue the dictionary. Seriously.”
No, no, no. He either should sue his government school for not acquainting him with common usage of the phrase, or he should go for the REALLY DEEP pockets and sue God.
And yes, I’m kidding.
(please don’t sue me)
That's the current policy when corporations have rented public parks in Houston to operate paid admission concerts.
"There is lightning in the area, everyone must evacuate in an orderly fashion (10-20 blocks from your car). Oh and loiter in the vicinity because we MAY let you back in if the weather improves. NO REFUNDS."
It’ll become “act of Global Climate Change” and big oil/big coal will be assessed the damage fees.
How do we even know exactly what happened? The story here is that an employee was leading them to a training room. But that employee plus her family died. So who is going to testify as to what was happening? They all died. So how do we know for sure what they were doing?
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