J.R. Tamayo -
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 11:16pm
A lady in a McDonald's restaurant spills coffee on herself, sues, and wins a settlement. Personally, I like my coffee hot. In California, a burglar breaks into a home, slips on the wet kitchen floor and gets hurt; he sues the home owner and wins. If he had entered my house, he would have been too dead to sue me. A lady rents an RV, then while driving it down the freeway, decides to put it on "cruise control," (easy how one can confuse that with "auto pilot"), so she could leave the wheel and make herself a sandwich. Well you can guess the outcome.
We need real tort reform from frivolous law suits. The word "Justice System" is an oxymoron. I don't speak from ignorance, but from tragic first hand experience. I hope that some greedy plaintiff, and his ruthless, unscrupulous, ravenous (these adjectives are really euphemisms because I know I'm speaking in mixed company) attorney doesn't get their claws into you.
It's a shame that as artists, we have to temper our creativity because of liability. We need less lawyers, and more artists in this world. If you don't believe me, open your local yellow pages...
J.R.
PS: Frank, I hope you dulled the knives on your eagle; Eligius, I noticed your Amigo grillwork had some pointed ends; Warren, shave the point off your dragon's teeth and horns (I'll be sure to do the same to mine).
A lady in a McDonald's
A lady in a McDonald's restaurant spills coffee on herself, sues, and wins a settlement. Personally, I like my coffee hot. In California, a burglar breaks into a home, slips on the wet kitchen floor and gets hurt; he sues the home owner and wins. If he had entered my house, he would have been too dead to sue me. A lady rents an RV, then while driving it down the freeway, decides to put it on "cruise control," (easy how one can confuse that with "auto pilot"), so she could leave the wheel and make herself a sandwich. Well you can guess the outcome.
We need real tort reform from frivolous law suits. The word "Justice System" is an oxymoron. I don't speak from ignorance, but from tragic first hand experience. I hope that some greedy plaintiff, and his ruthless, unscrupulous, ravenous (these adjectives are really euphemisms because I know I'm speaking in mixed company) attorney doesn't get their claws into you.
It's a shame that as artists, we have to temper our creativity because of liability. We need less lawyers, and more artists in this world. If you don't believe me, open your local yellow pages...
J.R.
PS: Frank, I hope you dulled the knives on your eagle; Eligius, I noticed your Amigo grillwork had some pointed ends; Warren, shave the point off your dragon's teeth and horns (I'll be sure to do the same to mine).