Are you always armed?

[jeepster09]

[QUOTE=jmk1138;91693]

There is a place for lawyers, yet we have to many of them QUOTE]

Actually, given the current wealth and population of our country, we are at an all-time low for lawyers when compared to previous decades.

There's not too many lawyers -- there aren't enough good ones.

You must be a lawyer or be related to someone that is. Everyone wants to sue everyone for everything now a days......no one is responsible for their own actions anymore, it's everyone elses fault!

[jmk1138]

"Everyone wants to sue everyone for everything now a days"

Or, we can all take it out in the streets to decide.

Either way, I'm ready for either battlefield. Let me know.

[jeepster09]

"Everyone wants to sue everyone for everything now a days"

Or, we can all take it out in the streets to decide.

Either way, I'm ready for either battlefield. Let me know.

Instead of "taking it out in the streets" just take responsibility for our own actions and quit blaming others for our screw ups.

[jmk1138]

Do you honestly think that every single lawsuit is about people blaming others for their screw-ups?

What if you buy a house and the other guy refuses to move out?
What if a pilot puts the flaps up instead of down and crashes into a river?
What if a guy takes your TV?
What if your employer stops paying you even though you've already done the work?

How are you going to redress your grievance?
You can seek judicial assistance or you can:
(1) attempt to physically remove the person,
(2) pay your own bills caused by someone else,
(3) attempt to physically take your TV back and then incarcerate him in your basement for 3-8 years or
(4) break open the cash register and take your wages.

It's a cop-out of the highest order and intellectually dishonest to remain on the fence and fail to act (in a self-defense scenario or otherwise), and then lay the blame on the fact that one day someone might sue you.

[jocko]

i LIKE YOUR LAST 4 SUGGESTIONS

[jeepster09]

You must be an attorney.:001_tt2:

[jeepster09]

Why do pharmaceutical company laboratories now use lawyers rather than lab rats for testing?
. . . Lawyers breed faster, so there are more of them.
. . . Lab personnel don't get as emotionally attached to them.
. . . Lawyers do things rats won't.
. . . Animal protection groups don't get nearly as excited.
. . . Some people actually LIKE rats.

[jmk1138]

i LIKE YOUR LAST 4 SUGGESTIONS

Some people do.
What does your dungeon look like? And is there lotion, Bill?

[jeepster09]

Q: What's wrong with lawyer jokes?
A: Lawyers don't think they're funny and other people don't think they're jokes.


Q: What do you call 25 skydiving lawyers?
A: Skeet.

[Brittanyman]

Over the last year, I've seen two ads in National Geographic that were about class action law suits. One was going after a company that sold small head phones for mpg / ipod players. They had nothing in their instructions concerning audio level and loss of hearing. The law suit was settled out of court. The end result was people who bought these headphones received zero compensation. The company agreed to donate 2 or 3 hundred dollars to groups for deaf people. The lawyers were asking for millions to cover their costs.

Another one was against Honda. The claim was Honda mis-labled the horse power ratings of their lawn mower. Again it was settled out of court and the consumers received a $5.00 check and millions went to the lawyers.

Lawyers are always looking for clients so they can sue a company or corporation. Look at the TV ads. One group of lawyers were exposed concerning a class action suit for people who were exposed to asbestos. The lawyers were getting people to claim they were exposed to asbestos, when in reality they never where. The lawyers new this. They even coached them on what to say.

How about the woman who claimed she found a finger in chilli she bought at Wendy's. She was eventually exposed because of previous law suits this lady had filed against other companies. The finger actually came from a relative that she put in the chilli.

I can't believe her lawyer had no knowledge of her past history of law suits. He saw dollar signs dancing in his head.

When I worked for a sporting goods store, we had a law suit filed against us. There young teenagers were building pipe bombs and using them to blow up mail boxes. One day when they were making them in one of the criminal's home, one blew up and took of part on one kids hand.

These criminals faced no jail time. The authorities felt sorry for them. The boy who lost part of his hand sued our store, because he claimed he got the gun powder from our store. The only evidence he had was a can of empty gun powder. He had no receipt, no price tag on the can, and his description of the person who sold him the gun powder fit no one who worked in the store.

The store's lawyer said we should settle out of court for a million, because our insurance would cover it.

The owner of the store felt sorry for the kid and settled out of court for $250,000. The kid took the money, bought a flashy car and one night wrecked it while in a drunken stuper. Too bad the slug didn't die in an accident. We finally found out that the gun powder came from a friend of these criminals. The friend stole it from his father's reloading supplies.

Watch John Stossel or read some of his books. He has a lot of stories about lawyers and the courts that allow some of these law suits to go forward.

[jmk1138]

Brittanyman,

I could tell you worse stories about lawyers and the judicial system. "Investigative" journalists are just scratching the surface.

So, kind of proves my point, right? We need more good lawyers.

And, it is still better than a might-is-right "legal" system. At least the parents just sued instead of coming down to your store demanding your manager's hand in some sort of Shariah law fashion.

My original point is the same, and I don't think it is very arguable -- Don't blame your own lack of preparedness on the off-chance that some idiot may sue you someday. Tried by 12 or carried by 6, right?

[Bawanna]

I'm picking up bad ju ju. Anyone want to hear me sing my version of Moon River?

Happy thoughts, stay constructive, don't do me ugly.

[pappy42]

I'm picking up bad ju ju. Anyone want to hear me sing my version of Moon River?

Happy thoughts, stay constructive, don't do me ugly.

Dang boss, you shut things down before I got to say something ugly about lawyers.

[Sparks1957]

Ban him! Ban him! Ban him! hehehe

[Bawanna]

Nothings shut down. I was just getting bad ju ju. Finger hoovering over the button but fire away.