The "Mother of All Frivolous Lawsuits"?

[boxcar]

Just when we thought we've heard it all. you remember the infamous suit over the women spilling hot coffee on herself and suing MacDonald's, right? And how 'bout the nut who threw himself in front of a subway train, and sued NYC? Both litigants were initially awarded big bucks, however the coffee spiller's award was eventually overturned (a sure indication that there are at least a few us walking around with our heads screwed on straight).

Now read and weep about the latest frivolous suit. This is another doozy.

Boxcar

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Toddler Tort

In Greenwich, CT, something rather unremarkable occurred on November
4th. 2-year-old Konrad Mader "was running toward a treehouse at a playground when he crashed into railing." Little Konrad cut his head in the collision and needed some stitches.

Now, anyone who has ever taken a two-year-old to a playground won't be
surprised in the least at such an incident. Happens all the time.
Every day. What DOESN'T usually happen, though, is the two-year-old filing a lawsuit for lost wages.

Well, actually, the boy's mommy, Deana Mader, filed the lawsuit. Seems at
the tender age of TWO, little Konrad is a model and an actor (as opposed
to just being a kid) and so Mommy Dearest sic'ed her lawyer on the city.
She blames city officials for painting the railing Konrad ran into green,
which, she contends in the lawsuit, blended in with the landscaping. Duh.

The Mother of All Frivolous Lawsuits says the railing should have been
painted a brighter color. Maybe pulsar pink? Maybe we better paint all
the tree branches, as well?

I feel sorry for Konrad. First, because his mommy apparently sees him as
a cash cow rather than a beautiful gift from God who should just concentrate
on being...a kid. And because his mother is teaching little Konrad at
such a tender young age that all of life's little set-backs and accidents are
somebody else's fault and actionable in a court of law. This is really,
really sad. It's also how Democrats are created and ambulance chasers are
enriched.

By the way: Where's little Konrad's daddy in all this?

[freeneasy]

the mother has a responsibility to protect her childran. when she brought her kid to the park to play, before releasing her child to play she needed to conducy an examination throughout the entire park, taking careful note to and of any and all existing possibilities, concerning the makeup and layout of the park, that could lead to physical repercussion involving accidental injury to her actor-son. hence thereby placing the responsibility upon her decision as wheather or not to allow for her son to begin play.
see box, i fix it all up.

[boxcar]

Free, I agree completely. But there are two $64. questions that remain:

1) Will the judge toss out the case immediately as a frivolous lawsuit? Chances are pretty good, s/he won't.

2) On that assumption, then, will city in the case find 12 level-headed jurors that won't give the plaintiff the right time of day by thinking along the lines you have about the mother's responsibility.

Boxcar

[freeneasy]

da judge is bound and obligated to give any complaintant before him the consideration of having a legitimate suit and almost to the point of no matter how seemingly dumb the complaint may seem.
could be a number of requests were put in by concerned mothers that noticed the possibility of accidents happening to their kids due to an unsafe visual of the railings. thats not for the judge to research cause he dont know. thats for the plaintif and defendent to bring to the forefront.
now if the kid was running and looking back at the same time when he bumped his head on the gaurdrail, the rail could have been any color, he was still going to bump his head.
or he could have run into a tree. what? are you going to put a rail around every tree. kid'll just run into the tree rail. but something as falonyess balonyess as that can easily be tossed.
but to get 12 level headed jurors to see that this women is simply full of bull aint so easy anymore. some knucklehead on that jury is going to say " hey i can see her point"
i hate this kind of crap just as much as the next guy but as long as theirs a cheap buck to be made these people are just going to keep ozzing up thru the floorboards. you can always tell who these people are cause they use toxic pastewaste to brush their teeth. hehe