Probably not a good idea. When you rip on another country you also rip on their citizens, many of whom may be members here. Certainly we have many from Canada. So if you do that you're not respecting your fellow writer. That's AW's prime directive.
Agree. And that seems very much like common sense to me, which I think is buttressed by the lack of these kinds of lawsuits in similar cases. I question the idea that this lawsuit provides any leverage whatsoever.
The article I read on this incident said her BAC was 0.00. She wasn't drunk.
Fair enough, but I meant in a public setting, NOT on AW. Being that I am a newbie, I presumed it was naturally understood that blanket, broad brush condemnations and statements of disrespect of entire peoples are not allowed on AW and so on here it would be a non issue. I was referring ot other public settings where this would occur, NOT AW forums of any kind.
Unbelievable. Maybe the dead boy's mother can backhand the driver in the face with all her might, and then sue her for the pain and suffering caused by the impact to her hand.
Don't feel badly, emax100. Being that you are a newbie is, I'd venture to guess, one reason Haggis responded to your posting the way he did. Because a great many people make their way to AW, and to this forum in particular, with no concept of respect for others in operation at all, so pre-emptive warnings are not unusual.
In my twenties, my girlfriend's roommate had a man jump in front of her car to commit suicide. He'd tried several times before in different ways. This time, he succeeded. He almost hit her when he came through the windshield. Forty years later, I don't think she's ever fully recovered.
My theory is that if she succeeds in her suit, she'll prove to herself that she is the victim and absolve herself emotionally of any wrongdoing. Just the act of filing suit shows that she is heading down that self-serving emotional path. To me, it also says she has more culpability than she's admitting and is going to extremes to clear her guilty conscious.
