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The Workers' Compensation Court ruled last June that Hopkins was an employee and noted that while his "use of marijuana to kick off a day of working around grizzly bears was ill-advised to say the least and mind-bogglingly stupid to say the most," there was no evidence presented regarding Hopkins' level of impairment.

The WCC found that grizzlies are "equal opportunity maulers" without regard to marijuana consumption.

The sleazeball amboo-lance chasers are rejoicing

1 posted on 03/24/2011 12:13:57 PM PDT by skeptoid
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To: skeptoid

That bear must have had the man-chies!


2 posted on 03/24/2011 12:16:03 PM PDT by Batman11
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Maybe he gave the bears some of his dope, and they got the munchies.


3 posted on 03/24/2011 12:18:03 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Had to ponder the headline a bit to figure out who was smoking the pot.

Good thing it wasn’t the bear. He’d have finished all the munchies...


4 posted on 03/24/2011 12:19:30 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Pay heed to your principled position and you won't have to worry about your political position.)
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Looks like the Montana Supreme Courts is smoking something too!


7 posted on 03/24/2011 12:20:02 PM PDT by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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The bear has a high old time.


8 posted on 03/24/2011 12:20:10 PM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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It’s probably a good thing he wasn’t a moose handler. It could have been series.


9 posted on 03/24/2011 12:21:52 PM PDT by GSWarrior (To activate this tagline, please contact the board administrator.)
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To: skeptoid
"It was a real buzzkill when this happened. But now I've got the benjamins, and I'm ready to party!"
"Where will you go?"
"Sea World, man! I'm gonna swim with Shamu!"
10 posted on 03/24/2011 12:22:28 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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This sounds to me like an opportunity for a government paid scientific study:

1) Base Case: Two groups of people, one smoking pot and one not smoking pot, and neither going near a grizzly - no attacks.

2) Case 1 - A group of Obama supporters (they’re the only ones dumb enough to do the experiment without smoking pot) not smoking pot and hanging out around a grizzly.

3) Case 2 - A group of people smoking pot and hanging out around a grizzly.

My hypothesis is that grizzlies prefer pot smokers because not even a grizzly likes Obama supporters.

To take out the Obama bias, you would have to find some non-pot-smoking, non-Obama supporters stupid enough to hang out with grizzlies - not possibe!


12 posted on 03/24/2011 12:29:36 PM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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Playing footsie with a wild animal is pretty **mn stupid.

We`ve seen the same thing many times up in the Smokies,except thank heavens never seen someone attacked

Bet this idiot never does this again high or not

They had a mounted grizzly bear at Bass Pro Shop in Nashville before the great flood,scary monster


13 posted on 03/24/2011 12:30:55 PM PDT by Harold Shea (RVN `70 - `71)
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Workers' (or Workmen's for the politically incorrect) Comp is a little different from your ordinary lawsuit.

In exchange for a pretty much guaranteed payout, employees give up any general damages - all you can get is medical bills plus a lump sum for disability (or a monthly payment for temporary disability). There's not a lot of money in it for the ambulance chasers, they are after the big tort verdicts with general damages, pain & suffering, emotional distress, etc. etc. The guys who do this tend to work volume for a small fee.

Employers, on the other hand, in exchange for a reduced payout, give up the usual tort defenses such as contributory negligence, etc. A defense of "wilful misconduct" is generally still available, but the required level of proof is pretty high, and you also have to prove causation.

It's a little hard to tell from the article, but it appears that the court rejected a wilful misconduct defense, finding a lack of causation between Hopkins's use of weed and the mauling. If he had gotten high (or drunk) and driven a motor vehicle or operated machinery, I think you'd see a different result due to wilful misconduct causing the injury.

14 posted on 03/24/2011 12:33:05 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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Headline of the Day


15 posted on 03/24/2011 12:33:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of kinetic military action.)
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suffered injuries to his legs and buttocks
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estimated $35,000 in discounted medical bills

He did not suffer a little scratch.


16 posted on 03/24/2011 12:43:16 PM PDT by frithguild (The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
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Was the Breck Hair Girl involved in this case?


24 posted on 03/24/2011 1:59:14 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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Hold muh bear and watch this....


27 posted on 03/24/2011 3:02:23 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (The last Democrat worth a damn was Stalin. He purged his whole Party.)
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