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shmokes:
That's nonsense.  People like to complain about how ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up the law is by going on and on about the burglar who sued, etc.  They're usually a) talking about an urban myth, b) as in the case of the lady who sued McDonald's, grossly misinformed about both the facts and the outcome of the case, or c) it's a total anomaly that happened somewhere sometime and would almost certainly never happen anywhere else, ever again because it's so incredibly stupid.

A drunk driver does not get off.  Ever.  If somebody broadsides your car because they ran a red light and the Breathalyzer shows that you were drunk, those 12 people are going to throw the book at you.  People put up barriers all the time to protect the things behind the curb from the things that drive in front of the curb.  The city, in fact, puts up concrete bars for just this purpose.  Chad wouldn't be putting up concrete to "get" the bad guys.  He'd be putting it there to keep drunk drivers from crashing through his yard and potentially into his house and/or children.  It's not like we're telling him to put a mine in his bushes.  The snow plow isn't going to explode when it hits a bit of concrete.

Wait a minute.  Just why are you getting so defensive?  Don't you drive a snow plow?  This sounds like a guilty conscience to me.  Maybe Chad and you should continue this thread through PMs . . .

DrewKaree:
Sheboygan, WI.

I'll call my cousin up and tell him it was an urban myth that he had to pay money to the asshat who more than likely ran over his mailbox the OTHER 3 times.

I'll tell him the fact that the idiot driver was awarded money for "excessive damages" to his vehicle for running into the concrete-filled post must have been an anomaly, that a jury of idiots didn't award the asshat that money due to "purposeful intent by the homeowner" in setting up his mailbox just as he did and that it did just that - fail to discern between the asshat who supposedly "took his eye off the road for a second" and "the person this setup was supposed to catch".



Tell me you're continuing to argue that something that happens on someone's property won't be attributed to carelessness and/or recklessness to them.  I'd like to call my parents and tell them they can stop throwing their money away on homeowner's insurance.  Oh and hey, all the rest of you that think the hidden concrete pile is the solution, you guys go ahead and cancel your homeowner's insurance too. 

And please, shmokes, as many stories of the burglar being shot, living OR dying, and sueing the homeowner, and you want to claim they're somehow ALL fitting under your 3 neat little categories?  None of those cases has EVER been won?  None of those cases has EVER been something that the homeowner shouldn't have ever been sued for?  Seriously, you're going for a minor in math too, aren't you?

DrewKaree:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 20, 2007, 02:01:59 am ---
Wait a minute.  Just why are you getting so defensive?  Don't you drive a snow plow?  This sounds like a guilty conscience to me.  Maybe Chad and you should continue this thread through PMs . . .


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Because stupid things like this happen all the time, and they DON'T fit your 3 neat little categories.  The fact of the matter is that such stupid things like this happen a bunch, and while you'll admit that something like the McDonald's case happened, you then turn around and say "oh, but that wouldn't happen....or you wouldn't win", when you know that anything that goes to court is entirely dependent on how well one side presents their case over the other, and whether it convinces enough people of the "rightness" of their case.

Yep, I drive a plow.  If I were to ever have a guilty conscience, it'd be because I lied about hitting something.  There's a decent-sized handful of people here (that would include MrC & saint) that can attest to the fact that I've owned up to hitting things with my truck, much to my detriment.  It bugs me that some assclown thought it'd be cool to go off-roading in Chad's front yard and give the rest of us who're honest and far more responsible than him a "black eye".  What REALLY bothers me though, is that there's people on here advocating booby-trapping their yard, whether serious or joking, when it can lead to legal problems for them in the future. 

What's worse, the clown who tore up Chad's lawn, or the guy who would booby trap the front lawn for the express purpose of hoping to catch the same guy?

I'm pointing out that there's ways to do this decoratively that WON'T be looked at like you're hoping to catch and cause harm to whoever would dare cross the curb into your yard, otherwise why NOT just put up a concrete barrier in the front yard with a barbed-wire topping to it? ::)

shmokes:
Um, I haven't read your last comment yet, but I see what you quoted.   ::)  Take a joke.  I don't really think you are the person who crashed into Chad's bushes.    Not minoring in math.  Minoring in information systems.  Gotta go to bed now.  To be continued.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 19, 2007, 12:24:29 pm ---Eh, the bushes are there for a reason.

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It keeps his neighbors from complaining.

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