[upchuck]

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[jwh_Denver]

Flush......

[Dustbunny]

Unbelievable. I know he must be hurting over the loss of his wife but how can he possibly hold Wal-Mart responsible?

[sarasmom]

"Chris McGoey, a California security consultant, said lawsuits over the safety of store parking lots are common and about 90 percent of them are settled"

Hence this incredibly pointless and malicious lawsuit against Walmart.

What was Walmart, or any business with a parking lot supposed to do to "insure" the safety of potential customers?

Post armed guards?
Provide valet parking?

This man and his lawyer should face criminal charges for including Walmart in a frivolous manner.
Especially the lawyer.
Perhaps there should be a mandatory annual review of all lawyers and immediate revocation of law licenses for those who practice extortion.

[brightforestway]

The suit against the jail makes sense, the suit against WalMart does not. There's nothing reasonable a WalMart outlet could have done to prevent something like that. That one's basically like getting hit by lightning.

[Daaave]

[taxesareforever]

I thought everything was Bush's fault.

[The Duke]

Husband of woman taken from Wal-Mart sues retailing giant

For once something isn't George W. Bush's fault!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Original abduction thread (~3000 posts)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/789797/posts

[bert]

Kill the lawyer. He's raising my cost of living

[dixie sass]

I guess they will need to hire a security agent for every customer that comes onto their lot now. How stupid.

The police patrol the lots here in Summerville and I imagine they do in most cities. If it had been inside the store, maybe this would make sense but because it was outside on common property, no, I don't think so.

Thanks for the ping.

[cynicom]

Follow the money, hungry LAWYER there somewhere.

[JoeGar]

Chris McGoey, a California security consultant, said lawsuits over the safety of store parking lots are common and about 90 percent of them are settled.

Smells like extortion, doesn't it?

[Between the Lines]

For the past several years our church has provided a type of security service for the women shopping at our local mall from Thanksgiving to Christmas. When they leave the mall we escort them to their car, carry their packages and even provide an umbrella if it is raining, all for free. We worked all of the mall entrances but were not allowed to work the entrances of individual stores like Belks and Wal-Mart (yes there is a Wal-mart in our mall).

Last year a woman was robbed and raped after leaving Wal-Mart and is suing us because we did not provide the same security for Wal-Mart customers as we did for the rest of the mall. Even though we we were not permitted to work in front of Wal-Mart.

Needless to say, we aren't doing it again this year. This woman suing us because we did not equally protect her, has caused us to pull out, ensuring that all of the women shopping at the mall are equally unprotected.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Why sue Wal-Mart? Oh, that's right! They have MUCH deeper pockets than his state. *Rolleyes*

[Tax Government]

The "answer" includes:
1. Settle this particular suit
2. Heavy support for laws requiring petitioners who lose a civil suit to pay the other side's court & attorney fees
3. Redesigned Wal*Mart parking lots, with fewer entrances & armed security

[Salo]

One of the WalMarts by me has gotten so bad they have hired rent-a-cops to patrol the parking lot.

It's the corner of Ashley Frustrate and Rivers for those of you in the North Chuck area.

I stick to the Goose Creek WalMart - much safer - better class of people shopping there for the most part.

[SweetCaroline]

I remember this!

Wasn't this woman related to a Freeper or a Freeper herself?

There were many threads about this from the beginning of her abduction.

[Westholly]

Thanks upchuck for your dead on call of this greedy bastards lawsuit. He has already blown her life insurance money, so he has to milk some from somewhere. How about the Conway police dept., or even all the volunteers who helped searched for Alice, ya sue them please. Or even better, sue Alice's daughter Angie, who didn't realize that her mother was in trouble when she told her that she loved her, then hung up. She said her mother never told her that, so who else should Barry Donovan sue now?