Another one.
Jackpot!.......
Must have been one damn nice door.
This ottoman was was worth $1.5 million, let's see, you trampled dirt all over this imported rug in the foyer, which had to be sent back to Persia for refurbishing, that's 100k. The front door that you smashed in was a one of kind original from a world reknowned door artist valued at $2.1 million. Oh yeah there's some "emotional, we got our rights trampled - and feelings hurt - and now need to retire to a South Pacific Island" claims that we're levying as well.
Good for them, I hope they win.
To be fair, the couple should receive the money to repair their door and any other damage. The amount cited however is too much. Nobody died, so the police shouldn't have to pay more than maybe $50k on top of damages. That should be plenty for the couple to pay off a little bit on their mortgage, pay off their credit card bills, and take a nice two week long cruise. Of course, the irony would be if the couple uses some of the money to buy drugs.
A guy was having a hard-time thinking and he had a brain surgeon take out his brain to repair it. The brain surgeon told him to come back in a week to get it. A year went by and the surgeon still had his brain. The doctor called the guy and said are you going to take your brain back? The guy said no, I don't need it. I got a job working for the Henry
County Police.
Henry County is a rural county south of the Atlanta airport. It used to be a really corrupt county with payoffs to the sheriff not an uncommon happening. That all stopped a few years ago thankfully, and I would like to think this was a major screwup, but certainly not done to harm anyone there. Demote, fire, or transfer the officers in charge, make this couple "whole" again with $25,000 and repairs and public apologies, but $8,000,000 is way out of the line of reasoning and should be tossed. In the middle of the night there is a reasonable explanation as to the mix up of addresses involved, and that is most likely what happened.
I'll bet a lot of us don't know where Henry County is.
I'm guessing somewhere in America, but you provided no clue.
This will happen when the agents of government are more concerned with arbitrary Laws than they are with Justice.
Shame that they can't sue each of the individuals involved. Maybe if they can hit the county hard enough it will make some difference. Not too much hope in that though, it's only tax money.
Battering ram assault... concussion grenades... being held face down at 1 am in your own home... yup, I think the couple deserves a handsome settlement. Perhaps in the future, the cops can take 20 seconds to CHECK THE DAMN ADDRESS!
This whole lawsuit thing has become "life's lottery", as portrayed by Dick Gephardt....no resemblance between damages and the amount sought when an ambulance-chaser takes it and seeks to do his own wealth-redistribution from the deep pockets into his OWN pockets.
The WOD. Gotta love it.
I'd bet money that they never see a dime.
pets AND people have been killed in these "accidents" and I've never heard of restitution.
Why are they only suing for 8 million dollars? I think $75 million is fair. A couple judgements like that, and you'll see the failed war on some drugs scaled back pretty quickly.
The police are lucky several of them didn't get shot. 8 million is an easy let off, considering. It would've been justifiable self-defense, but the homeowners would've been thrown under the prison anyway. Such is the state of our justice system.