Idiots

Lawsuits in California

Ok this is a list of outrageous lawsuits filed in California. It appeared in the Anne Landers on February 21, 2000. (NOTE: I do not read Anne Landers, I had this article shoved into my face cause it is up my alley.)
  • A man sued San Diego and its stadium beer vendors for emotional distress suffered when several women entered the men's rest room and embarrassed him. He said the vendors were at fault for selling so much beer and causing repeated use of the restroom.
  • A couple sued a health club in Torrance for the loss of close companionship and distress after the man had an Internet affair while off work for disability. The couple said that the health club was to blame, because he cut his hand on a towel dispenser and started the affair while at home recuperating.
  • A San Fransisco taxi driver was sued after he captured a fleeing crook. The mugger won $24,000 for injuries he recieved when the taxi driver pinned him against a building with his cab.
  • A man sued his godmother after he injured his knee when she dropped her end of a piano she had asked him to move.
  • Disneyland was sued for emotional distress suffered by children who became upset when they saw some of the park's Disney characters taking off their costumes and discovered the characters were make-believe.
  • The YMCA in Santa Clara County was sued for negligence for not providing a lifeguard for its hot tub.
  • Simi Valley was sued for failing to maintain its property after a boy ran over his own finger while skateboarding on a city sidewalk.
  • A software company was sued for selling its disks in boxes that were "too large."
  • A driver sued Huntington Beach for $60 million, accusing the city of racketeering after he received three speeding tickets.
I am still amazed at the stupidity of American citizens.


The Doofus on The Higway

I was reading the O'Collegian (Oklahoma State University's student paper) today when I came across an article talking about how a man in Pocola Oklahoma died recently while trying to get a bag of clothes off a highway. Apparently he was driving in his car with his wife eastbound on U.S. 271 when they saw a bag of clothes lying on the westbound lanes. So what does Einstien do? He parks his car on the bridge and runs to the edge and tries to leap from the eastbound bridge to the westbound bridge. One problem, the bridges were TEN feet apart. The cops ended up pulling his drowned body out of the river later that night. This is why the Darwin Awards were invented.

The Idiot at the Coffee Shop

Well here is another odd thing that I was actually involved in. On Friday February 12, 1999, Indi was closing at Subway and I was hanging out with her, when all of a sudden this guy from the coffee shop down the street comes bursting in and says for us to call 911. He says that there is this guy who keeps coming into the Coffee shop and bugging the customers. He personally has kicked this guy out twice and was told by the owner to call the cops on him if he came back to the store. So this is why he was asking to call 911. Through my powers of eavesdropping, and the fact that I was more than mildly interested, I pieced together that this idiot(I call hi Doofus from now on) had walked back into the store to pester people again clutching a back pack tightly to him and waving a Pringles can at people saying "This is my Sh*t man. This is Good sh*t." Well the cops ask the guy the address of the Coffee shop, and I swear that within thirty seconds, seven cop cars pull up to get this guy. Man the police are either not busy in Stillwater or are just great at getting to places really quickly. Any way they catch the guy and arrest him for trespassing. When they go to take a look at what he had on him they saw nothing wrong with the back pack, but the Pringles can actually contained crap. This idiot took a crap in the can and was carrying it around like a moron. It doesn't end here. The guy is 22 years old and instead of being taken to a mental institution he is just locked up on four hundred dollars bail. Good Grief.

Sex In The Park

I saw this on the Tulsa news today(3-17-99) up before the Oklahoma State Government is a bill that proposes a law to place warning signs on park benches, in public bathrooms, and install surveillance cameras to prevent people from having SEX in the park. Whaaaaaaa? Lets see here, Oklahoma could spent time and effort on education reform, the war on drugs, looking at today's prison system and how it is failing, or possibly having a real pro sports team come to Oklahoma, but noooooo they would rather stop people from having SEX in the park than do any of the other things mentioned above. SEX in the park could make more tax payers and give population growth to the state, but noooo the Oklahoman's would rather keep their Public parks sex free. God do I hate the bible belt.