unbefreakinleivable!

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:40 am

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2881602

This should get tossed out of court in fairly short order. STILL. You represent the estate of a multi-millionaire and you're suing some poor sap who drives a GEO Prizm and a tow truck driver?!?!?!?!?! Also, unless Missouri has a rare dram shop liability law, the drunk driver or his/her estate can't collect a dime, only persons/estates injured by their actions - i.e. bars that overserve them.

bwohlgemuth · Post by **bwohlgemuth** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:42 am

Sounds more like a dad who can't bear that his kid essentially took himself off this planet....

WBOB · Post by **WBOB** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:46 am

Something that's lacking here....

Personal Responsibility.

deek · Post by **deek** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:49 am

I was listening to this on the radio this morning...I agree, the dad is upset and he wasn't "someone" to pay...but this is all a bunch of BS. I mean, suing the bar, the tow truck driver, the tow truck company and the owner of the car on the side of the road...ridiculous...

WBOB summed it up well!

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:13 am

Maybe we're learning why Junior was still acting like an idiot 18-year-old 10 years after he should have been. It's ALWAYS everybody else's fault when little Johnny gets himself in trouble. Probably always has been. Maybe they're just pissed that their meal ticket's gone.

MrSpall · Post by **MrSpall** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:57 am

Just heard about this on ESPN radio. This is ridiculous. Let's see, binge-drinking alcoholic in a rental car (because he wrecked his own car two days earlier), driving 70mph in a 50mph zone, talking on a cell phone (about going to another bar), while legally drunk, and with 5 ounces of pot in the car hits a tow truck that has it's lights on, parked off on the shoulder of the road, doing it's job. Explain to me again how this is the tow-truck guy's fault? The worst would be if this tow-driver was working for himself, not part of a larger company. He'll have to bear all of the legal costs to defend himself. If I were him, I'd countersue for slander, just to recover court costs.

He's also claiming the driver of the stalled car was negligent because of where her car stalled out. At what point do you plan on stalling out your car? It happens to all of us at some point. You can't control where it happens.

This is just such increidble crap.

bassjones · Post by **bassjones** » Fri May 25, 2007 12:09 pm

Actually, the tow truck driver's insurance company (as well as the bar and the GEO driver's insurance companies) will be footing the bill for the defense in this case - and it's high-profiile enough that it probably will cost a fortune to defend - driving everyone else's insurance premiums up along with it.