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echo: askacop
to: CHRISTOPHER COYNE
from: RD THOMPSON
date: 1998-01-22 19:45:00
subject: Re: Censorship

Hi Christopher, as you were just saying about Re: Censorship....
CC> RT> TJ> Yeah, i just dont see how it was their fault at all. I mean, if
CC> RT> TJ> the drive  thru person had thrown the cup of boiling coffee or
CC> RT> TJ> spilled  it all over that woman.. then yes. But instead.. she had 
CC> RT> TJ> driven like a mile away, and spilled it on herself. I think  she
CC> RT> TJ> probably wanted a whole lot more. 200,000 is enough  money to 
cover
CC> RT> TJ> about 200 trips to the hospital. Seeing as  how 1 nights stay, 
plus
CC> RT> TJ> the ambulance ride goes about 960  bucks.  
CC> 
CC> RT> You obviously don't know how badly she was burned.
CC> 
CC> All I hear is how badly she got burned by your side to 
CC> justify the descision. I feel sorry for the lady, but it al 
CC> comes down to one issue:  Who's at fault, her or McDs.
I haven't taken any side in how badly she was burned.  That is a
matter of record.  
I have also said that I think that Mickey Dees should have just
settled and that she should not have won the case.  Mickey Dees
attitude is what gave her the win.  What more do you want? 
CC> I broke my arm when I was seven playing follow the leader.  I was
CC> swinging on  the tree and misjudged the swing.  Should I have sued
CC> the  apartment complex for putting the tree there or the people 
CC> playing with me who carried me home because I was in a lot  of pain?
CC>  That's assuming by your statement that people are  not capable of
CC> taking responsibility for their own actions.
Show me where I made that statement.  Take all the screens that you
need.
 
CC>  If the answer is anything other than I should've taken 
CC> responsibility and my family should've payed, then we have 
CC> created a monster out of the civil legal system indeed.
 
Agreed.
RD 
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