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Town Sued Over Accident That Sent SUV Into River (Suing rescuers)
WTNH News Channel 8 ^
| Aug. 5, 2005
| Tina Detel
Posted on 08/08/2005 5:58:11 PM PDT by raybbr
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To: calex59
Well, she is right about one thing. The accident could have been prevented all right. The idiot driving could have driven slower and safer! According to the full article, she's suing him too!
"Connors is also suing her son-in-law, Alan Hauser, who said he hit the accelerator instead of the brake causing the Explorer to crash through the fence and into the river."
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:27:42 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: Thinkin' Gal; general_re; aculeus; hellinahandcart; Tijeras_Slim; Larry Lucido; Petronski; ...
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:28:40 PM PDT
by
dighton
To: DoughtyOne; Thinkin' Gal
I hadn't noticed she was suing him also.She's probably suing his insurance company for the medical bills. That's the way you have to do it around here.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:29:41 PM PDT
by
raybbr
To: raybbr; Dead Corpse; Do not dub me shapka broham
"Mother-in-Law goes in the drink in new vehicle..."
Son-in-Law must be having "mixed emotions."
Can she also sue for now being ethically challenged, as well as brain-damaged? Or could that possibly be a condition that existed before the accident?
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:29:56 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(Mighty and enduring? They are but toys of the moment to be overturned by the flicking of a finger.)
To: Hexenhammer
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:30:02 PM PDT
by
meema
To: raybbr
Connors' attorney Robert Reardon says... if a dive team were in place things would be different. So all towns near a river should have a dive team in place, 24/7, waiting for some idiot to drive into the river?
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:38:31 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Koran 9:123 "Make war on the infidels who dwell around you.")
To: Thinkin' Gal
Hmmm, he's driving an SUV with this sweet, charming mother-in-law, and accidentally depresses the accelerator such that the vehicle plunges into a river. Figuring he could swim better than the old battle-ax?
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:39:25 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Crush! Kill! Destroy the heathen!)
To: dighton
Come now, youve never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? ... Of all the cases on record, theres not one single case of a sweet, charming mother-in-law, accidentally drowned in an SUV. Well that's because they didn't have SUV's in 1944. :-)
If the MIL is this ornery after the accident, what was she like before? Is her present personality an improvement? The article says she is in a nursing home. The manufacturers of Bingo games had better lawyer up.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:41:39 PM PDT
by
Thinkin' Gal
(Wisely investing in quality tin foil wardrobe basics since 1998)
To: dighton
To: raybbr
Put the old bitch back in the river then.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:55:22 PM PDT
by
Husker24
To: John Valentine
Some people have never ever had to come to grips with life in a world constrained by economic choice. Normally we call them children. Upon reaching adulthood, those still harboring such childish fantasies may safely be called morons. Thank you! This is the best paragraph I've read in quite awhile. I plan to plegarize it heavily. I will attempt to give you credit whenever my ego allows!
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posted on
08/08/2005 7:03:42 PM PDT
by
Egon
(By the way, I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar.)
To: raybbr
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posted on
08/08/2005 7:11:19 PM PDT
by
bboop
To: raybbr
Many states have shield or "Good Samaritan" laws that protect responders from this kind of felony ingratitude. It would appear that Connecticut does not, more's the pity.
I guess my defense would be that while the woman may be brain damaged following the rescue, she would be brain DEAD if the rescue hadn't taken place.
Of course, that would require a re-enactment to substantiate the theory ...
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posted on
08/08/2005 7:16:42 PM PDT
by
IronJack
To: raybbr
Well let me be the first: I have read the first 33 replies and nary a mention yet:
Was Teddy the driver?
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posted on
08/08/2005 7:19:43 PM PDT
by
ZOTnot
('We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good'--Hillary, 6/28/2004.)
To: John Valentine
Some people have never ever had to come to grips with life in a world constrained by economic choice. Normally we call them children. Upon reaching adulthood, those still harboring such childish fantasies may safely be called morons. Roger that!
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posted on
08/08/2005 7:27:33 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Crush! Kill! Destroy the heathen!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I live in a tiny town (1,500 + -) with a great Volunteer FD trained in swift water rescue. Our town is on a river that has astonishing 23 ft. rised during heavy rains, they've pulled out lots of folks over the years. Most of those people were in those raging waters because of their stupidity and lack of common-sense (by-passing a "bridge closed" barricade, for example).
I wholeheartedly agree with Post #4.
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posted on
08/08/2005 7:55:19 PM PDT
by
brushcop
(We lift up our military serving in harm's way and pray for total victory and a safe return.)
To: raybbr
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posted on
08/08/2005 8:57:16 PM PDT
by
UB355
To: dighton; Thinkin' Gal; general_re; hellinahandcart; Tijeras_Slim; Larry Lucido; Petronski
Didn't we once have a legal profession consisting entirely of men and women who would have tossed this woman out of their offices?
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posted on
08/09/2005 4:25:04 AM PDT
by
aculeus
(Ceci n'est pas une tag line.)
To: aculeus
I would have (and have, in fact, on several occasions). That's why I still drive a Taurus rather than a Lexus.
To: dighton
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posted on
08/09/2005 5:01:07 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Lonesome's First Law: Whenever anyone says it's not about the money, it's about the money.)
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