It has been noted that MLG and I are Heinlein fans, NAY, devotees. Like him or don’t, the man advocated personal fucking responsibility over all else (Commandment #1 in our household), and was positively PRESCIENT where some things were concerned… For example, in the novel Friday, the titular character is forced to travel through the California Confederacy on her way elsewhere, and runs afoul of both bureaucracy and politicians. The picture so vividly painted here of California-of-the-future is of an insane asylum with the fuckin’ lunatics in charge.
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a young woman who pulled a co-worker from a crashed vehicle isn’t immune from civil liability because the care she rendered wasn’t medical.
The divided high court appeared to signal that rescue efforts are the responsibility of trained professionals. It was also thought to be the first ruling by the court that someone who intervened in an accident in good faith could be sued.
Lisa Torti of Northridge allegedly worsened the injuries suffered by Alexandra Van Horn by yanking her “like a rag doll” from the wrecked car on Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
Torti now faces possible liability for injuries suffered by Van Horn, a fellow department store cosmetician who was rendered a paraplegic in the accident that ended a night of Halloween revelry in 2004.
Kiss my ass. The entirety of it. Please?
Yes, most people know that moving an accident victim is not the best idea, but this bullshit judgement insinuates that the defendant damaged the plaintiff a’purpose, that she deliberately cause the cow’s paraplegism. Now, considering the girls were partying together, I’d venture to guess the plaintiff did not embark upon the evening actually planning to injure her co-worker, as something like that would be far more easily accomplished with a semi-auto, a length of sturdy pipe, or even, you know, your hands and the correct application of leverage.
What we actually have here is just another fucking freeloader, looking to make someone pay for the injustice of the universe, because she was surely about twelve seconds away from becoming The Greatest Cosmetician Who Ever Lived…at least until that bitch broke her back.
SHIT HAPPENS, HONEY. Get a high chair with wheels and keep doing your fucking job, hey?
No, no, must bitch and moan instead, and add just a little more piss to the Self-Entitled Pool, so that eventually bystanders will simply stand there and watch the next car accident victim scream in agony instead of moving to offer aid and comfort. WIN!
It call doing the right thing people and someone need im going to do it. I couldnt join the military cause of my cerebal palsy but it wont stop me from pulling someone from a wreak. Now if he try to sue i going to say that he was telling me to move him and now cause of the accident he cant remember saying that. That woman need a slap from my kansas pimp hand.
Brad essex
December 20th, 2008
“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
-Edward Abbey
BobG
December 20th, 2008
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mlg
December 20th, 2008
The language of California’s Good Samaritan law clearly prohibits this lawsuit. I guess the justices of the California Supreme Court, like so many liberal judges and lawyers, don’t care about upholding the law but only about creating law to suit their prejudices. But we already knew that, didn’t we? There is no limit to the evil that judges can do when they are allowed to see “emanations” and “penumbras”.
pst314
December 21st, 2008
Not relevant to the current discussion at all, but I wanted to say how much I love the story you linked to up in the “today” area (top right) for 12/19/08. Awesome.
I wouldn’t have pulled over in the first place. “Flat” tire, my ass. I’d roll on the rims with sparks flying before I’d pull over unless there were TONS of people around AND I had the Glock loaded up with Speer Gold Dots.
dogette
December 22nd, 2008
@dogette:
Motion fucking seconded. Mister Liberty Girl had a fucker try this bullshit on him – ON HIM – in a Wal-Mart parking lot a few months ago. Mister Liberty Girl is not a small man, nor is he what you’d call not-scary. MLG looks you in the eye, calls you by your name, lets you know he’s paying attention to what you’re doing.
Ah well, I guess you wouldn’t be a criminal in the first place if you weren’t utterly fucking stupid.
Liberty Girl
December 22nd, 2008