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Only in America, and maybe France, can a person injured by the flying body parts of a person killed after being struck by a train sue the deceased’s family, as evidenced by this recent legal ruling dealing with the death of Hiroyuki Joho, an 18-year-old who was tragically killed by...
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Today’s frivolous lawsuit story is brought to you by 35-year-old Joseph Dinwiddie, suing 89-year-old George Hinnencamp for injuries sustained during a car wreck. However, Hinnencamp was not driving; in fact, Dinwiddie was driving drunk in Hinnencamp’s car, having stolen it just moments earlier. Hinnencamp had previously hired Dinwiddie for...
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In one of the more frivolous lawsuits I’ve heard about today, a woman from Edmonton claims that a stick of Stride chewing gum broke apart in her mouth and stuck to her dentures, resulting in depression during the process of pulling bits of gum out of said dentures. Based...
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There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t ride Greyhound buses, but now I have a few more. In 2008, Tim McLean was stabbed to death, decapitated, and subsequently cannibalized on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba by Vince Li, a man who has since been judged not criminally responsible...
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John Luckett would argue that he’s had some bad luck in his lifetime and is merely trying to earn back what he is due. So, he has sued people once or twice. What’s the big deal? This story might hold water if he were suing for things that were...
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On March 3, 2008, 54-year-old Roger Kreutz was ordering coffee at Starbucks when 19-year-old thief Aaron Poisson snatched the tip jar and took off. Instead of fully evaluating the situation – for example, the odds that a senior citizen could chase down a teenager, or whether such a chase...
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Tracy Hottenstein, who died in Sea Isle, New Jersey in 2009 on the weekend of the Polar Bear Plunge is being avenged by her parents in typical first-world fashion through a lawsuit against nineteen separate defendants. The kicker: Tracy did not participate in the Polar Bear Plunge. The annual...
Only in America, and maybe France, can a person injured by the flying body parts of a person killed after being struck by a train sue the deceased’s family, as evidenced by this recent legal ruling dealing with the death of Hiroyuki Joho, an 18-year-old who was tragically killed by...
Today’s frivolous lawsuit story is brought to you by 35-year-old Joseph Dinwiddie, suing 89-year-old George Hinnencamp for injuries sustained during a car wreck. However, Hinnencamp was not driving; in fact, Dinwiddie was driving drunk in Hinnencamp’s car, having stolen it just moments earlier. Hinnencamp had previously hired Dinwiddie for...
In one of the more frivolous lawsuits I’ve heard about today, a woman from Edmonton claims that a stick of Stride chewing gum broke apart in her mouth and stuck to her dentures, resulting in depression during the process of pulling bits of gum out of said dentures. Based...
There’s a lot of reasons why I don’t ride Greyhound buses, but now I have a few more. In 2008, Tim McLean was stabbed to death, decapitated, and subsequently cannibalized on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba by Vince Li, a man who has since been judged not criminally responsible...
John Luckett would argue that he’s had some bad luck in his lifetime and is merely trying to earn back what he is due. So, he has sued people once or twice. What’s the big deal? This story might hold water if he were suing for things that were...
On March 3, 2008, 54-year-old Roger Kreutz was ordering coffee at Starbucks when 19-year-old thief Aaron Poisson snatched the tip jar and took off. Instead of fully evaluating the situation – for example, the odds that a senior citizen could chase down a teenager, or whether such a chase...
Tracy Hottenstein, who died in Sea Isle, New Jersey in 2009 on the weekend of the Polar Bear Plunge is being avenged by her parents in typical first-world fashion through a lawsuit against nineteen separate defendants. The kicker: Tracy did not participate in the Polar Bear Plunge. The annual...