Your Mail WILL Be delayed

Thanks to yet ANOTHER entry in the lawsuit lottery.

It seems a woman got home from the welfare office somewhere. When she got home, she looked at the mail on her porch and attempt to step over it to unlock her door. She instead, stepped on a letter and fell. Therefore, according to the morons on the US Supreme Court, she is now entitled to piles of taxpayer money.

So, let's look at the logical results of this crap.

1. The US Postal Service will have to pay out piles of money. They will have to spend (and have already spent) tons of cash defending the lawsuit, even if they win. If they lose, they will have to pay out truckloads more cash to the woman who won the lottery lawsuit. And where does the US Postal Service get money? From taxpayers and people who pay to mail things.

Result from 1: Higher taxes, more government waste, and higher postal mailings costs.

2. The Postal Service will have to take "remedies" to ensure this doesn't happen again. If they do not, the next time someone slips on a letter, they will have to pay out MORE cash.

Result from 2: More postal regulations and restrictions -- if you don't have the right size and shape mailbox, they will not deliver your mail. If they have a package that doesn't fit in your mailbox, instead of leaving it, they will have to hold it and you will have to pick it up in person.

Great. The only way these morons who start these lawsuits with the sole intention of getting a lottery-sized winning is to seriously and heavily penalize both the person who brought the lawsuit AND the scum-sucking lawyer who represents them. No, I didn't say to limit lawsuits -- let anyone sue for anything -- just when you lose, you, AND THE LAWYER have to pay.

Posted by: Ogre at 03:43 PM

Comments

1 I always thought that should be a standard for civil suits, the plaintiff pays the defendant's fees if the plaintiff loses. It would help with a lot of different lawsuits, not just these small ones. Think of the cases where you have some small time guy being threatened by a law suit by a big corporation but just caves in because, even though they are sure they would win, they can't afford an attorney.

This might help make the legal system better.

Posted by: Contagion at February 24, 2006 10:35 PM (e8b4J)

2 But Ogre, surely she couldn't have been expected to actually bend over to pick up her mail, could she?

As I've said before, THIS IS NOT what you will see from me after I finish law school! If you do, you have my permission to SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD, REPEATEDLY, WITH A LARGE CALIBER WEAPON!

Posted by: Smoke Eater at February 25, 2006 04:44 PM (5LGKd)

3 I don't understand why it's NOT, Contagion. Other than the bleeding heart liberals who would complain about the poor who wouldn't be able to afford losing to the rich...

Posted by: Ogre at February 26, 2006 02:21 PM (CyQ4M)






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