Posted on 08/03/2005 9:28:51 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Good point...
Let me just say... HUH????
Partners from the law firm of Moreno, Becerra, Guerrero and Casillas should be sealed inside the trailer to verify conditions.
Yup, typing too fast with elbows again.
The phrase is "Beyond the Pall"
And this is the key, and the guy to sue. Nevermind that he does not have any money. This suit against the trailer manufacturer is similar to the suit agains gun manufacturers with the exception out there that refrigerator manufacturers have moved away from latches that lock and cannot be opened to the magnetic latch that can be pushed open. These trucks can be pushed open unless latched and locked from outside. I would say if the truck was going to be used to haul human cargo then a fire axe should be left inside. What? The fire axe was not there?
WRONG, wrong wrong. It's 'beyond the pale.'
NOT 'beyond the pall.'
"Pale" has the same root as "palisades" - a fence around a habitation. Thus, 'beyond the pale' means 'outside the bounds' of acceptable human activity.
Your definition of 'pall' is correct (similar to 'shroud'), but that is not the word in this phrase. Possible use of 'pall' - "The recent death of their father cast a pall on the family's Christmas celebration." Or "The smog cast a pall on LA's sunshine."
Sorry for the OT, but especially since you went through the trouble of repeating yourself, I thought you might like to know.
They should sue the Mexican government. Is there a tip in that comic book they printed telling illegals that it is dangerous to ride in a trailer to sneak into America?
Advocates claimed that comic book was strictly for safety purposes yet it included tips on how not to be detected once you move into a city.
Or the doors are latched open.
Yes, I have quite often thought that refrigerated trailers needed an escape hatch, I have seen many trucks driving down the freeway where the sides of beef and other perishable goods have been trying to escape from the truck. It is about time we had escape hatches for all the food that wants to depart these trucks./s off
pale (n).
1. A stake or pointed stick; a picket. 2. A fence enclosing an area. 3. The area enclosed by a fence or boundary. 4. a. A region or district lying within an imposed boundary or constituting a separate jurisdiction. b. Pale The medieval dominions of the English in Ireland. Used with the. 5. Heraldry. A wide vertical band in the center of an escutcheon.
tr.v. paled, pal·ing, pales
To enclose with pales; fence in.
Idiom: beyond the pale
Irrevocably unacceptable or unreasonable: behavior that was quite beyond the pale.
These lawyers have to look up to see a snakes belly!
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off this South Texas/Mexico ping list.
Don't forget they can also sue under the Civil Rights Act too, because there were no restroom facilities.
I can see criminal charges against the driver but this is so messed up. We really need a no civil recourse if you are involved in a crime at the time of an accident.
So the manufaturer is suppose to assume his trailers will be used in illegal human trafficking? They same for the rental company? The screwed up thing is that with our courts they may win.
I think it was Dane who brought to my attention the newly created firm of Sheister & Sheister.
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