[raybbr]

No good deed goes unpunished.

I know this is a little old but it was too good to pass up.

[raybbr]

Just damn???

[Always Right]

An attorney for Barbara Connors says his client suffered permanent brain damage because Old Saybrook did not have the right equipment to save her quick enough.

Perhaps her driving her vehicle into the water played a small part.

[Hexenhammer]

Throw her crippled a## back into the river and then throw her shyster lawyer in after her.

[xcamel]

Quick - pull the feeding tube! (from the lawyaaah)

[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! Idiots, and the judge who allowed this lawsuit and didn't throw it out is the biggest idiot.

[DoughtyOne]

Old Saybrook Population: 1962

http://oldsaybrook.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm

Yikes, there are a lot of townships near rivers or streams that are going to have to have frog-men at the ready 24/7/365.

This is rediculous.

[jimfree]

Don't settle! Don't settle! Make her pay for the services!

[lepton]

Quite simply she has no right to be rescued. That anyone bothers is due to their charity. I expect this to go down the same road as the "right to police protection".

[arichtaxpayer]

My township is being sued by a homeowner whose 3-story home caught on fire. The township firetruck could only reach to the second story to put the fire out.

[Thinkin' Gal]

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.

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.

There could be more to this story which may go a long way in explaining his sudden loss of control.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

This suit though targets the town, saying this accident could have been prevented and the rescue could have been quicker

What nonsense.

First, the accident could have been prevented if her driver had pressed the brake pedal instead of the gas pedal (facts which have been ascertained by the LEO's).

Second, no township is specifically obligated to have any particular resue equipment "on hand" (which also has to be "paid for").

Third, maybe the rescue squad should stick her ungreatfull ass back in her sunken SUV and say "have a nice day".

[hophead]

One other explanation could be that she was driving in a SUV. You know how nasty those gas guzzling planet polluting road hogs are. They are pure evil. I think the lawyer should sue the manufacturer of that SUV. If it was not so large and heavy it may not have sunk so fast. They should have known that some unsuspecting driver would one day drive into the drink in this town where "proper" rescue equipment was lacking. Wasn't this a foreseeable incident? Shouldn't the manufacturer be responsible now to build SUV's with more water tight seals to prevent this kind of tragedy?

[stylin19a]

I'm guessing this trial wont be held in Old Saybrook

[Tall_Texan]

Is this a "wrongful life" suit?

[John Valentine]

And he says if a dive team were in place things would be different.

This is about the same level of nit-wit thinking that led to a proposal a few years ago by a woman in Texas whose husband had been swept away in a flash flood tht Texas establish a "fast reaction force" who could then rescue folk that had been swept away in a flash flood.

It seems to me that I remember her saying the "Nobody should ever again have to go through what I've been through."

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.

[NicknamedBob]

"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?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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?

[Husker24]

Put the old bitch back in the river then.

[bboop]

B-word.

[IronJack]

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 ...