Just When I Think People Can't Get Any More Stupid

[Minimalist]

and that with Donald Trump we have reached bottom and started digging deeper, along comes this silly twat.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/boy-...-1.2395756

NYC aunt loses lawsuit against 12-year-old nephew over birthday hug that broke her wrist

A Connecticut jury needed just 25 minutes Tuesday to decide against a Manhattan human resources manager who sued her own nephew for $127,000 in damages after he accidentally broke her wrist.

The auntie said Sean wrecked her social life by making it “difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvres plate” and that having a bum wrist makes it difficult for her to climb the stairs to her third-floor walkup or get around Manhattan.

WTF?  It's times like these when the losing party should be taken out back and beaten with sticks.

[Pyrrho]

It sounds to me like a scam to get money from an insurance company.  Either that, or her nephew is rich.

[Iroscato]

Your mistake was not realising human stupidity is infinite. No worries, happens to the best of us.

[brewer]

Man, don't you just love the litigious nature of the US.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Huh. I once had a birthday 'hug' that nearly got a girl pregnant. The notion of a lawsuit never came up.

Boru

[TheRealJoeFish]

Lolz that's stupid and dumb. And the kid was *eight* at the time. Any time your case is based on what a "reasonable 8-year old" would know do, you're gonna lose unless you got stabbed multiple times.

[Jackalope]

Lolz that's stupid and dumb.  And the kid was *eight* at the time.  Any time your case is based on what a "reasonable 8-year old" would know do, you're gonna lose unless you got stabbed multiple times.

An interesting corollary - what kind of fucking lawyer would take such a case?

[jenny1972]

and that with Donald Trump we have reached bottom and started digging deeper, along comes this silly twat.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/boy-...-1.2395756

NYC aunt loses lawsuit against 12-year-old nephew over birthday hug that broke her wrist

A Connecticut jury needed just 25 minutes Tuesday to decide against a Manhattan human resources manager who sued her own nephew for $127,000 in damages after he accidentally broke her wrist.

The auntie said Sean wrecked her social life by making it “difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvres plate” and that having a bum wrist makes it difficult for her to climb the stairs to her third-floor walkup or get around Manhattan.

WTF?  It's times like these when the losing party should be taken out back and beaten with sticks.

this is sooo sad !  " As Beckert spoke, Connell, 54, sat quietly with a black wrist guard on her left arm(4 years later her arm is still injured from a hug what is she disabled now?). Sean, whose mom died last year, was not in the court. Sean’s lawyer said the only thing the boy is guilty of is “trying to give his aunt a hug on his birthday.” "Kids will be kids," Noniewicz said. "He was an 8-year-old boy being an 8-year-old boy...Sean was not negligent."  

wow what a coldhearted woman the kids mom died last year and all she cares about is getting money from this mourning family her own family who she should be supporting and making him feel worse . what the hell is wrong with her ?

[Faith No More]

Yeah, I saw this earlier. The best part is the thing about the hors d'ouevres.

[Angrboda]

WTF?  It's times like these when the losing party should be taken out back and beaten with sticks.

I originally read that as the losing party should be taken out back and beaten with dicks. It puts a different spin on things.