Hotel tragedy unifies parents - Ex-spouses sue over son's fatal fall

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 01/16/07 | Beth Warren

[madprof98]

I sometimes wonder what kind of people file these lawsuits. The woman I can believe. I find it harder to believe the ex-husband would join her.

[BenLurkin]

This is a sad event and the family may not know better.

The real shame is on the lawyers who take the cases.

Just my opinion.

[misterrob]

The soldier goes off to to war is his whore wife takes up with another man, takes the children out and leaves them with a 14 year old at a hotel while she parties it up.

And she wants to sue someone.....

Gotta wonder which housing project/trailer park Neel fished her out of.

[2banana]

A married mom with a husband fighting overseas parties with another gentleman while their child plays around and falls from a high balcony - and she has the nerve to sue? What is wrong with our legal system in a nutshell...

[USMCWife6869]

I hate women like this. They give all military wives a bad name.

I think the fall of her son is entirely her fault. I don't blame the husband being devastated. I don't even blame him for suing, really, but the person he should be blaming is his ex. And the reason, I am sure, that she is joining him in the suit is so she doesn't have to face the fact that she, and only she, is responsible for what happened to her son.

[darkwing104]

The only reason why the Father was brought in, to be a tool for the lawyer to get and hold the moral high ground. If the Mother tried it alone she would have to face negligence questions. The Hotel will have to settle out of court to diminish further embarrassment.

[Gay State Conservative]

I sometimes wonder what kind of people file these lawsuits. The woman I can believe. I find it harder to believe the ex-husband would join her.

You and I must be reading different articles.I have sympathy for the husband and nothing but contempt for the wife.And I'm having trouble understanding why the hotel is responsible here.

[agrace]

He's probably channelling his emotions away from his ex-wife. Easier to blame an impartial third party maybe?

[elc]

It's hard to tell exactly from the article, but sounds to me like the accident happened before Georgia updated its codes.

I would hope this is tossed out of court very quickly.

[isthisnickcool]

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[HamiltonJay]

hree months earlier, she had kissed her husband goodbye and urged him to be careful in Afghanistan.

But she met another man, Jason Fidler, a bouncer at Classy Cats, a Savannah nightspot where she worked as a waitress.

The two planned to take Hunter, his 9-year-old half-sister and their 14-year-old baby sitter to Atlanta for a weekend of fun that would include a visit to Six Flags or the zoo.

Ok, I'll say it.. .... SLUT.

I do feel for her loss, but had she been a good wife, none of this would have happened.

[John D]

I sometimes wonder what kind of people file these lawsuits. The woman I can believe. I find it harder to believe the ex-husband would join her.

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The amount of money involved will make strange bedfellows.
I think the mother should be arrested and convicted of manslaughter.

[Junior]

Omni officials blame the mother, who they say was too busy partying to watch her son.

Amen.

[t2buckeye]

"In her deposition, the police supervisor said the death could have happened even if Neel had been in the room."


Perhaps, but had she been in the room instead of partying, she might have noticed him missing...AND he was alive when they reached the rooftop where the boy had fallen. If someone had been paying attention, perhaps he would have lived.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Ain't that the truth! I'm deeply sorry for this man and can see how a woman like this could manipulate him into joining this lawsuit. I know it's easier said than done, but they are now divorced and the best thing for him is to grieve his horrible loss in whatever way that does not involve this whore. And if this woman doesn't think that her older children don't see her for what she is, she should think again.

[wideawake]

The slut is a "waitress" and the dirtbag is a "bouncer" at a "nightspot"and yet they have enough ready cash lying around to rent two extra hotel rooms on a whim, have a large party that lasts all night and takes up three hotel rooms, and then pay for limo service and hangover breakfasts for the whole crew.

Either she's not a waitress or he's not a bouncer or it's not a nightspot or some combination thereof.

Or she was using the tax-free warzone pay her husband was making to finance her trysts.

Disgusting people - it's a shame this soldier fell for such a vile woman.

[Emmett McCarthy]

The absolute gall of this lawyer to claim that this tragedy "had nothing to do with Mrs. Neel's personal life" just frosts me, by the way. It was the conduct of her "personal life" which caused the whole damned thing.

[Krodg]

parties with another gentleman

I doubt many people would call the sleazy boyfriend a 'gentleman'.

[lilylangtree]

Now that's rich. The wife committing adultery with another man spending her husband's money partying with this man while her son falls to his death and no one knows. Then with her now ex-husband sues the hotel because she won't take responsibility. Good grief!

[RicocheT]

Somehow, my wife and I raised two kids to adulthood without engaging in this sort of activity--a party at a hotel with underage kids doing drugs and alcohol, limo rides with some weed and leaving the baby on the ninth floor with a open door to a balcony. I guess we were just stupid in missing a good opportunity to sue a company with deep pockets.