Only in America

[husaberg]

As the tittle says


A woman from Washington state has sued her mother's neighbour in Oregon over a pet duck.

Cynthia Ruddell is seeking US$275,000 (NZ$319,500) for pain, suffering and other damages she claims were inflicted when a pet duck ambushed her for no apparent reason.

Ruddell was on her mother's property in Estacada, Oregon, about 25 miles southeast of Portland, when the duck attacked her without provocation, according to the suit filed last week in Oregon state court.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/9969604/Woman-sues-after-pet-duck-ambushed-her

[unstuck]

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[F5 Dave]

Ohh those ducks can be vicious. I'd want 300k if one took a bite out of me


.oh wait that's Sharks I'm thinking of.

[Akzle]

well, fuck a duck. reckon she oughta have her head examined by a quack.

[awa355]

The menace is growing, This news flash just in from Florida, :cool:

" MIAMI SPRINGS, Fla., April 10 (UPI) -- Residents of a Florida city are complaining to officials about unprovoked and unexpected attacks from aggressive ducks.
Rosie Buckner of Miami Springs told police and city officials she was accosted by a duck "suddenly and without warning" while walking near a bike path, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday.

"It was a vicious, aggressive duck that came after us from across the street," Buckner said. "I fought the duck off, but not before I was bitten by it."

Police said they have received several reports from around the city about attacks from overly aggressive Muscovy ducks, which were originally brought to the area from South America.

City Manager Ron Gorland said the birds are likely protecting their territories. "

All across the globe, Humans are at risk from ducks, :bs: Probably Islamic ducks according to the CIA, NSA, FBI and the ASPCA.

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[SMOKEU]

Most animals would probably be less likely to attack if you look at it, so don't turn your back on an aggressive duck.



All across the globe, Humans are at risk from ducks, :bs: Probably Islamic ducks according to the CIA, NSA, FBI and the ASPCA.


I knew the sand niggers had something to do with it.

[mashman]

She should also sue the govt as duck and cover obviously doesn't work.

[Akzle]

srsly, this now, but waddle be next?

[mashman]

That's a heavy bill that one could feather their nest with.

[Naki Rat]

They should just toughen the flock up! :headbang:

[The Reibz]

Most animals would probably be less likely to attack if you look at it, so don't turn your back on an aggressive duck.

This.
If anyone here ever encounters a shark in the water this is the best way to get them to keep there distance.
Last bronze whaler I encounted exited in less than 2 minutes because I kept my eyes on it.

But seriously, Duck attacks? I lol'd

[Akzle]

This.
If anyone here ever encounters a shark in the water this is the best way to get them to keep there distance.
Last bronze whaler I encounted exited in less than 2 minutes because I kept my eyes on it.

But seriously, Duck attacks? I lol'd

pun failure. You deserve a paddling
:spanking:

[kevfromcoro]

This.
If anyone here ever encounters a shark in the water this is the best way to get them to keep there distance.
Last bronze whaler I encounted exited in less than 2 minutes because I kept my eyes on it.

But seriously, Duck attacks? I lol'd

stiff in the crows,, we get some birds here bombard people.
not sure wot they are, but a bit visious..

About sharks in the water.

1st thing to do is throw shells at it. when you run out of shells..

Throw rocks at it. when you run out of rocks..

Throw some shit at it..

Cose you wont run out of that

[avgas]

Meh each to their own. Scammers are everywhere.

I know of people who have not worked since they were 18.......
Because back then they fell over, and now suffer "Back Pain".

Say that's 30K over 30 years.....

ACC for life y'all

(note : I still prefer the ACC system, but I think it needs a fixin)

[scrivy]

Quacks me up!!!

Imagine the legal 'bill'......

[mashman]

I see your America and raise you some utterly unbelievable shit from Canada:

Woman sues family of dead boy (https://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/23024595/woman-sues-family-of-dead-boy/#)

"Simon is chasing $1.2 million from the Majewski family. The woman blames the boys for the accident, branding them as "incompetent bicyclists".

Simon, a mother of three, admitted to police that she had been speeding and claimed that she didn't see the boys or the orange-red pedal reflectors on their bikes."

That's pretty fucked up.

[awa355]

Woman sues family of dead boy


Thats bloody pathetic. If this was a NZ case, ACC would probably side with her and give her a big fat cheque.

[frogfeaturesFZR]

Woman sues family of dead boy


Thats bloody pathetic. If this was a NZ case, ACC would probably side with her and give her a big fat cheque.

Sadly you're probably right.:doh:

[husaberg]

Early on the morning of July 7, 2001, a prankster dumped detergent into Canal Park's Fountain of Wind in Duluth, Minn., creating a mountain of bubbles. Several hours later, passerby Kathy Kelly walked into the suds and slipped into the fountain, sustaining a laceration to her left lower shin. Due to her diabetes the cut later became infected, resulting in $43,000 of medical expenses.
Kelly sued the city because it had not cleaned up the suds or posted warning signs, despite the fact that municipal workers had received a call concerning the hazard some four hours earlier. In March 2004, a jury found the city 70 percent responsible and Kelly 30 percent responsible for the injury, awarding $125,000 to the plaintiff. The fountain is now encircled by a railing.

[husaberg]

It's hard to believe that anyone could win a lawsuit for being injured while trespassing on someone else's property. But that's exactly what happened to two Lancaster, Pa., teens who were severely burned atop a parked railroad car in 2002. While out skateboarding, Jeffrey Kline and Brett Birdwell illegally entered property owned by Amtrak and Norfolk Southern Corp. and climbed on top of a boxcar in hopes of getting a view of the city. An uninsulated wire suspended above the train jolted Klein with 12,500 volts of electricity, causing severe burns over 75 percent of his body. Birdwell received burns over 12 percent of his body when he ran to assist his friend, whose clothes were on fire.
In the October 2006 trial, a jury said that, although they were trespassing, the 17-year-old boys bore no responsibility for the accident. Instead the blame fell entirely on Amtrak and Norfolk Southern for failing to post signs warning of the danger from the electrified wires that power locomotives. For medical costs, pain and suffering, and "loss of life pleasures," the teens received a combined $24.2 million.

[husaberg]

Some people might be honored to resemble a famous athlete -- but not Allen Heckard. The Portland, Ore., man said he had been mistaken for basketball legend Michael Jordan almost every day for 15 years -- and was sick of it.
In 2006, he sued the former Chicago Bull along with Nike cofounder Phil Knight (for promoting Jordan) for a combined $832 million, claiming personal injury and emotional pain and suffering. Heckard, an African-American with a shaved head and an earring in his left ear, did look a little like Jordan, but he was also 6 inches (15.24 centimeters) shorter and eight years older than his more famous counterpart. He soon dropped the lawsuit. It was pretty clear that Heckard's case didn't have a leg to stand on after he explained why he chose to sue Jordan and Knight for $416 million each: "Well," Heckard reasoned, "you figure with my age and you multiply that times seven and, ah, then I turn around and, ah, I figure that's what it all boils down to."

[husaberg]

In 2007, Roy Pearson, a Washington, D.C., judge, filed one of the most outrageous lawsuits of recent times when he sued a small mom-and-pop dry cleaner over a pair of pants. Pearson claimed that the shop's owners, Jin and Soo Chung, misplaced his pants after he brought them in for a $10.50 alteration, and then tried to return a cheap, imitation pair of his $800 trousers. Though the Chungs felt they'd done nothing wrong, they ultimately offered to settle with the judge for $12,000.
Unimpressed, the judge sued the Chungs and their son, asserting that the "Satisfaction Guaranteed" and "Same Day Service" signs posted in the store represented an "unconditional guarantee" that entitled him to a considerably larger settlement. Pearson sought $1,500 per defendant for each of the estimated 12,000 days that the signs appeared in the dry cleaners. The judge's claims also included emotional damages, the cost of a rental car used to drive to another dry cleaner and legal fees -- even though Pearson represented himself. The total amount of the lawsuit? A whopping $67 million, which was later reduced to a still-outrageous $54 million.
Fortunately, a judge in the District of Columbia ruled in favor of the Chungs and ordered Pearson to pay the couple's court costs, and their attorney fees as well. In a further blow to Pearson, a committee refused to reappoint him to his job as an administrative law judge, in part because of the questionable behavior he displayed in the Chung case.

[husaberg]

Jail gives inmates a lot of time to think, and a Chesapeake, Va., prisoner used the hours to come up with an exceptionally innovative lawsuit. In 1995, Robert Lee Brock sued himself for $5 million, claiming that he violated his own civil rights when he was arrested two years earlier for breaking and entering and grand larceny.
"I partook of alcoholic beverages in 1993, July 1st, as a result I caused myself to violate my religious beliefs. This was done by my going out and getting arrested," wrote Brock in the lawsuit he filed in federal court. But because he had no income in jail, Brock asked that the state pay him the multi-million dollar settlement. Judge Rebecca Beach Smith dismissed his claim as "ludicrous" but acknowledged his "innovative approach to civil rights litigation."

[husaberg]

A list of outrageous lawsuits would be incomplete without the case of Stella Liebeck, an Albuquerque, N.M., woman who spilled a cup of McDonald's coffee on her lap while sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car. As a result, the 79-year-old suffered third degree burns on her groin, inner thighs and buttocks and spent seven days in the hospital. When she contacted McDonald's about compensating her for the medical bills, the restaurant chain took her to court. After a weeklong trial, the jury awarded Liebeck $160,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages, which a court later reduced to $480,000. Both parties appealed, and they eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed amount.
While the ruling provoked outrage among many Americans, others saw her as a victim. The 2011 documentary "Hot Coffee" promotes the latter viewpoint, noting the alleged indifference McDonald's executives displayed to the fact that their coffee caused burns, as well as the public's misconceptions that emerged from the proceedings -- namely, the belief that Liebeck was driving and the car was moving.
Love the verdict or hate it, there's little question that Liebeck's lawsuit resulted in one of the most famous cases of recent decades. It became the butt of many jokes for late-night comedians and was even parodied in a 1995 episode of the popular television show "Seinfeld." The case also inspired the creation of the Stella Awards, which highlight particularly "wild, outrageous, or ridiculous lawsuits."

[mashman]

The world's gone all silly. Must be time for new management.

[husaberg]

The cracks in American society are appearing....

[husaberg]

As it says only in America.

[Big Dog]

That last couple are a husband and wife from the UK. They were on Age Gap Love documentary series. So that one is bs.

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[husaberg]

That last couple are a husband and wife from the UK. They were on Age Gap Love documentary series. So that one is bs.

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I wondered if they were poms when I saw their teeth...........
Laava said ther same thing it was on my computer for a week or so, So bugger knows where i found it or what I was looking for when I did.

[awa355]

Also from the US. 3,318 years plus life without parole. In NZ, he would still be eligible to apply for parole after a third of his sentance. :no::no:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11503618

[jasonu]

Also from the US. 3,318 years plus life without parole.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11503618

That is a good thing innit?

[Big Dog]

Better hope he is not a believer in reincarnation... imagine that. Pulled straight out of his mother and our back in his cell on a groundhog day type loop fort the next 400 odd lives.

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[Big Dog]

That is a good thing innit?
I saw a documentary a while back on a prison that allows inmates to trade time in the saddle generating electricity on a bicycle for time served.

Over of the dudes had done enough electricity generating to get 10 years knocked off a double life sentence.

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[Banditbandit]

Also from the US. 3,318 years plus life without parole. In NZ, he would still be eligible to apply for parole after a third of his sentance. :no::no:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11503618


here the minimum non-parole period for murder is 10 years ... a convict must do at least that - not "one third" as you suggest. 17 years is the minimun non-parole period for serious offences, but judges can lengthen that if they believe it is justified

William Bell (Panmure RSA) got 33 years non-parole, but that was reduced to 30 years on appeal. He won't be eligible to ask for parole until 2031 ... and even then he may not get it ..

Here, that US killer may well get preventative detention ... "we will let you out when we get around to it - sometime next century ..."

New Zealand's longest serving prisoner, Alfred Vincent, was convicted of pedophile offences in 1968 - he remains behind bars today ... after 47 years in jail ...

Don't believe everything the media or the sensible sentencing trust tells you ..

[husaberg]

I saw a documentary a while back on a prison that allows inmates to trade time in the saddle generating electricity on a bicycle for time served.

Over of the dudes had done enough electricity generating to get 10 years knocked off a double life sentence.

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If that were China they would use the electricity to knock a few years of their life.
Seriously though maybe the would work in getting them motivated to make a change.

[Big Dog]

If that were China they would use the electricity to knock a few years of their life.
Seriously though maybe the would work in getting them motivated to make a change.
All of the cons in the program seemed real motivated about getting out at first. But as the changes necessary to spend more time in the saddle of a stationary bike as many hours as possible in the desert came thorough there were some real break through moments.
Some gave up heroin, ciggies, drinking and other behalte that got then in prison in the first place just to keep their place on the team. Only 12 bicycles. You stop peddling at a pace for to long there is a queue of guys wanting your seat.

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[husaberg]

All of the cons in the program seemed real motivated about getting out at first. But as the changes necessary to spend more time in the saddle of a stationary bike as many hours as possible in the desert came thorough there were some real break through moments.
Some gave up heroin, ciggies, drinking and other behalte that got then in prison in the first place just to keep their place on the team. Only 12 bicycles. You stop peddling at a pace for to long there is a queue of guys wanting your seat.

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Oddly ironic that a lot of the professional cyclists did that in reverse order.

\IN all seriousness though the cycle for time seems to be a great idea though to motivate.

[Big Dog]

Iirc. The program sells what they generate to the grid. On days that all 12 bikes run the whole available 6 out of 8 hours each bicycle powers an average American house.

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[awa355]

here the minimum non-parole period for murder is 10 years ... a convict must do at least that - not "one third" as you suggest. 17 years is the minimun non-parole period for serious offences, but judges can lengthen that if they believe it is justified

William Bell (Panmure RSA) got 33 years non-parole, but that was reduced to 30 years on appeal. He won't be eligible to ask for parole until 2031 ... and even then he may not get it ..

Here, that US killer may well get preventative detention ... "we will let you out when we get around to it - sometime next century ..."

New Zealand's longest serving prisoner, Alfred Vincent, was convicted of pedophile offences in 1968 - he remains behind bars today ... after 47 years in jail ...

Don't believe everything the media or the sensible sentencing trust tells you ..

My post was a light hearted poke at him only serving 1,000 years before parole IF under NZ laws. I am well aware of the rules around eligibility in NZ.