They've got it bad Robin ... Us, not so much ;o)
Posted on 07/25/2012 9:56:27 PM PDT by Houmatt
One of the victims in the James Holmes mass murder spree has lawyered up and plans to file a lawsuit ... because he feels the theater dropped the ball in a very fatal way.
Torrence Brown, Jr. was in Century 16 Theater when Holmes let loose. One of Brown's best friends, A.J. Boik, was shot in the chest and died. Brown, who was not physically injured, claims to now suffer from extreme trauma.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
As I recall, the exhibitor (the cinema) had the forethought to have extra police on hand for this midnight showing. They said they expected big crowds, so they planned for it.
Those were the cops who managed to collar the guy so quickly, likely saving many more lives.
It’ll be tough to convince a jury that they somehow fell down on their duty to protect their patrons.
May I may humbly suggest that the murderer was the person at fault for the murders?
Of course he is. However he is broke and not likely to make any money...
So.. The sharks.. er Lawyers have to go where the money is..
They've got it bad Robin ... Us, not so much ;o)
I believe that the courts have ruled that it is your obligation to ensure the guests well being when they are in your house, e.g. drinking.
A private business would be as responsible for the customers within their premises.
Building and fire codes mandate the exits.
It isn’t in the best interest of the theater to allow the exits to be operable from the outside. They lose ticket sales to kids entering in the theater from the rear. Many theaters used to patrol the exits to catch re-entrant squatters.
Theater isn’t in the wrong.
I think you might have mentioned this in your fist post, but this type of logic really does leave just about any small business in the lurch.
If the theater is liable, then every other business would be liable if some nut-job walked in the front door and started shooting the place and employees up.
What small business can afford to put an armed guard on every entry/exit point at their business?
Arming the employees would also be a liability, because any fellow employee shot by an armed employee that went postal, would then suit the business owner for that as well.
At some point, we have to allow for the fact that litigation is not the cure for everything that takes place.
At times life sucks, and you can’t be made whole in the aftermath.
But small business owners don’t routinely disarm their customers, leaving them defenseless.
Cinemark did exactly that.
Okay, I think that’s a reasoned point to make, but...
Do you think the theater owners would be safe from being held accountable if someone they let in with a gun stood up and shot five innocent people at random?
No. They wouldn’t be safe then either.
The theater owners are damned if thy do and damned if thy don’t.
I would rather opt with letting concealed carry in, but that won’t eliminate owner exposure.
He’s suing Warner Brothers because they make violent films. So what was he doing at a violent film?
Yeah, I don't understand all the people thinking these are emergency exits. They are simply exits provided to accommodate leaving the theatre and are there in case of fire.
Lawsuit.........It’s the American Way!
That meets the Occam’s Razor test for me. I’m with you.
The shooter bought a ticket juts like everyone else, went to his seat, then after the movie started got up and went out the emergency exit (and rigged it open), went out to his car that was 25 feet away, donned his gear and grabbed his guns and then went back in the propped open exit door and started firing.
I love this place. As long as you can find the right political bent, then bullshit lawsuits are a-ok.
Frivelous lawsuits and lack of personal responsibility and wanting someone else to blame has been one of the main reasons for this countries downward demise.
As another poster mentioned the shooter is at fault..no one else.
Shaking my head...
Yep, as they say, conservatives want small gov't on things they are against but big gov't on policies that matter to them...
Country is fricken doomed.
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