Suing God?

ty for sharing

more useless crap going thru the courts ...

I think this is hilarious. And... I hope it gets the point across! There are a lot of senseless lawsuits these days and no one takes responsibility for their actions anymore. For example: The person that sued McDonalds because they burned their inner thighs from the coffee when it spilled.... Ummmmmmmm when you're driving your car, don't put your coffee cup between your legs! We all know coffee is hot so YOU use common sense - don't blame others for your lack of good judgment. Another one: Suing McDonalds for making them obese. Puh-leeeeeez!

I hope everyone gets the message with this one. Thanks for sharing, Lori!

I understand that he is probably trying to make a point but This sort of thing is why your insurance rates go up every year.

Laura I am not sure what type of insurance rates this would affect.

This guy is making a mockery of the legal system. Just like that judge with the pants did. And the lady with the hot McDonald's coffee and the bozos who blame the fast food franchises for 'making them fat'...

PUH-LEAZE!

Lainie,

Common Sense is an oxymoron...

LOL mike I wonder when someone is actually going to do that one.

haha Mike..

Well, Lori - This is too much, this goes above and beyond trying to sue McDonalds because you got fat eating their food.

In your digging what did you find on the man? Is he looking for press coverage or is he insaine?

Mel, my hunch would be both...

if not, then his is just stupid.

Not saying he ISN'T stupid if he isn't looking for press coverage or insane...

I just don't think the point is going to be taken by many. Somebody needs a vacation.

http://www.sickoflawsuits.org/

Katie, apparently he needs a vacation and medication!

Lanie, Michael, Lori:
The problem with frivolous lawsuits is that they're not ALL frivolous. Take the coffe - McDonald's case for instance. Clearly the facts of the case are just not known or you'd not group it in to this conversation. She did NOT put the coffee between her legs, the plastic lid popped off (as they do sometimes) when the 81 year old former clerk . . . who had NEVER sued anyone before in her life . . . went to take a sip. She only sued because McDonalds refused to help her with the significant medical bills.

Why should they, you ask? Maybe because they knew they served their coffee 20 degrees hotter than any other restaurant. 185 degrees. Third degree burns occur at this temperature in just two to seven seconds, requiring skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability to the victims for many months, and in some cases, years.

McDonald's knew its coffee sometimes caused serious injuries - more than 700 incidents of scalding coffee burns in the past decade have been settled by the Corporation

The 2.7 million dollar judgement was (2 days of coffee sales) was mostly because McDonald's just did not care! A McDonald's quality assurance manager testified in the case that the Corporation was aware of the risk of serving dangerously hot coffee and had no plans to either turn down the heat or to post warning about the possibility of severe burns, even though most customers wouldn't think it was possible.

The judgement was later reduced 80% . . . to $480,000 . . . even though medical bills were in the tens of thousands . . . but everyone forgets that and talks like some ditzy blonde spilled some coffee in her lap and became a multi-millionaire.

McDonald's still has the heat up on their coffee . . . in 1997 a 73 year old lady was burned in a similar incident.

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~

I think someone has tried to sue Satan before this.

I think it's a waste of Omaha's tax payer dollars and, if I was one of them, I would be protesting that my representative was spending time on inane stuff like this rather than serious legislation to fix the problem. It's a publicity stunt - and it's stupid.

"some ditzy blonde " - excuse me, Doyle??? Care to rephrase that statement, buddy?

Doyle I agree in that instance she had a right to her day at court, but how do you sue something you can't see or touch? Whose pockets are emptied to line his?

Clearly this case is rubbish....

Talk about a waste of court time............

ROFLMAO!!! Wonder who'd represent the Plaintiff? Archangel Michael, perhaps?

So, maybe god will just settle instead of going to court on this one.

Sorry Sheryl, I wasn't referring to you but rather to the conception of the person referred to in this often and inappropriatly cited example of frivolous lawsuits. You know I happen to like ditzy blondes. :P

I can't see God settling out of court . . . I have to wonder how it would have been if Jesus was born in our age . . .

Tax Collector - Sorry Joseph, as long as God is Jesus' father you can't count him as a tax deduction.
Joseph - Well then I think I should sue God for child support.

This case is just a big attention getter and I'd be a little made about taxpayer money going out for it . . . but this is the city that tried OJ and Robert Blake and I for one cannot cast stones while paying for those (and many other) trials.

Sit back and enjoy the show . . . but how do you serve a subpoena or summons on God? Burn it? Claim omniscience?

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~

Hmmm. So to get rid of frivioulous lawsuits, one should file a frivioulous lawsuit?

Doyle, I'm still not convinced about the coffee lawsuit. (And I am one who has had 2nd and 3rd degree burns - from fingertips to elbow. I KNOW how that feels and what treatments are needed.) 1) Coffee is hot unless it's iced coffee. One can tell when one picks up the cup at McDonald's that it's hotter than other restaurant's coffee. 2) The first thing anyone should do when they get a take-out drink - hot or cold - is to check the lid. Lids do come loose if they're not secured properly.

ROTFLMAO! Oh lookie . . . lil' Lex came out to play! Run along Lex . . . let the grown-ups talk. (That's a good boy). :)

Tom - Thanks for the news and I tend to agree with you that this isn't just for nothing . . . just not to sure what it IS for . . . but even you have to admit it's amusing.

Marilyn:
"1) Coffee is hot unless it's iced coffee." Not THIS hot. removing skin in seconds? 700 other injury cases against them for injuries put them on notice and they refused to even post a warning?
"The first thing anyone should do when they get a take-out drink - hot or cold - is to check the lid" Unless it gets spilled on you coming through the drive through window, huh? By the way, squeeze the cup and the lid will come off. It IS a paper cup.
But really . . . isn't the fact that she proved and won her first and only case enough to demonstrate it was NOT frivolous? You imagine she waited 81 years and then dumped her coffee so she could 'roll the dice' and get rich? Come on, now. You're simply saying you don't agree. In the meantime, we can hope it doesn't end up being spilt on a child, huh? Although Tom believes Ernie has a motive . . . suing God is frivolous . . . since you cannot win and you certainly cannot collect.

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~

doyle - i must say that i can't fully agree with you on the statement: "isn't the fact that she proved and won her first and only case enough to demonstrate it was NOT frivolous?"

A number of years ago i took some business law courses and we reveiwed actual lawsuits, some where the customer won. I have to tell you that I almost gagged at some of the rulings - just ask yourself why a company who produces lawn mowers has wording on the box directing the customer NOT to try to trim their hedges with it. Some of these lawsuits are just cases of pure human stupidity and companies should NOT be held accountable for that.

Can't wait to see how God wins this one. Lightening sound pretty good to me.
Point or not it is a frivolous law suit. Wasting the courts time and wasting money.
Lady in McD's. I have no doubt that the spill was an accident. But by God(no pun intended) spill coffee on yourself, it's your own fault.
Once saw a man get an entire pot dropped on him, shattered the pot and he didnt sue. He was trying to calm down the poor waitress as he was getting loaded onto a stretcher. Who cares that he got second degree vs third.
Last I live 3 blocks from the beach in MS...don't get me started on insurance companies.

Sheryl:
I guess that depends on your definition of frivolous. In the legal context I have taken the -unworthy of serious consideration- definition. A claimant who has a case has recourse through courtroom ajudication. If the case is heard and the judge or jury agree . . . then, by definition it was NOT unworthy . . . unless you believe the subjective, personal opinion of people not privvy to the facts of a case can just abitrarily decide for themselves what is and what is not frivolous or worthy of consideration -- such as we see in the case with the hundreds of injuries from McDonald's coffee burns and a large punitive judgement rendered to protect society and punish the intentional misdeeds of McDonalds.

I think people use the term to describe any case (they personally feel) in which the claimant is wrong . . . independent of an impartial hearing of the facts.

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~

True, Doyle. Our judges and juries are not infallible and are often swayed by the expertise of lawyers, the emotions of a case, the make-up of the jury & venue, etc. There are so many things - I don't disagree with you on your premise that people (mea culpa) would personally judge a case to be "frivolous" based on their own values. I guess that is the challenge to the courts and to lawmakers - to try to keep personal values out of the equation and use the most objective and quantifiable semantics in legislation on which the validity of a case would be judged.

I just find it difficult to have a lot of faith in the system when cases against god are filed by an experienced legislator and people win large sums of money because they used a lawn mower to trim the tops of their hedges and cut their hand off.

"Tax Collector - Sorry Joseph, as long as God is Jesus' father you can't count him as a tax deduction.
Joseph - Well then I think I should sue God for child support."

Boy, I'd love to see the DNA testing on that one, lol

that is as bad as the lawyer that was suing the cleaners for millions over a pair of pants

I live in these United States and I hate to lump people into one big sterotypical pile but I've always believed Americans would sue God if they could. Next it will be for not providing enough Oil. Or for putting it under Iraq's sand. Oh of course all the hurricanes and tornadoes go without saying....it's all natural stuff, including the Oil.(sarcasm intended) The NE congressman is a freak.

Nick K do you have a percentage in your head of the people you believe would sue for anything under the sun? You sound as if you know your stuff. Just wondering what a fellow American has to say about his fellow american.

This thing works two ways, the plaintiff gets an out of court settlement but by the same token, if you have a legitimate suit against a large corporation you may not even get it in front of a judge until you have spent years and many more dollars than it was worth in the effort! If they all went to court our court system couldn't possibly keep up!

Doyle,

I appreciate the information on the coffee lawsuit as I've never heard the facts and have wondered. It is true that the judge and jury are there for that purpose.

Lori,

This is not so different that our newly elected representative from Idaho introduced legislation in congress repealing the law of gravity. This was a protest against the minimum wage to show that man cannot legislate against natural law. Too bad it didn't go through!

i think its funnier than sh!t.
which brings us to the real question: who decided that sh!t was funny?

how do you sue someone who can't appear in court to defend himself?