Just for the sake of having something to blog about yesterday's paper, I found this online.
How stupid are people? She's suing because she slipped on her mail--god, is this what the country is coming too!?
"Oh, gee. There's my mail. I'd better pick it up before I slip on it."
The woman, in her mid-forties, and wearing high heel shoes that don't look like their exactly slip proof begins to take her groceries from her car, with the intention of picking up her mail, and begins to walk towards her home. A slight breeze, strong enough to pick up some pieces of mail, begins to blow and scatter the pieces. Martha goes to step, and slips on one of the pieces. Getting up and noticing the soreness of her wrist and back decides to drive to the hospital with her ambulance chasing attorney behind her.
"Let's sue the Postal Service even though Congress passed a law saying we can't!"
"Yes, Martha, lets."
Ok..that's the end of my little piece of flash fiction. (I can hear Dr. Arnzen in the background saying "THAT'S NOT FLASH FICTION! THAT'S NOT EVEN GOOD WRITING!")
But that proves my point, the reason Congress passes these laws is SO THAT PEOPLE DON'T SUE FOR THEIR OWN NEGLIENCE. Americans-brains=moron.
Posted by lougagliardi at November 10, 2005 11:46 AM | TrackBackYou're right Val. But they don't have to use it. They could throw the mail through your window, and it wouldn't matter--because they delivered the mail.
Posted by: Lou Gagliardi at November 10, 2005 10:37 PMBut one would think that if she had a mailbox, it would be used.
Posted by: Valerie Masciarelli at November 10, 2005 10:32 PM1. I know it was on the porch-i was being sarcastic
2. All the post office does is guarantee that your mail will be delivered, it just doesn't guarnatee where it will be delivered too.
Posted by: Lou Gagliardi at November 10, 2005 03:28 PMActually, the woman claimed the mail was placed on her porch by the mail carrier, instead of in her mailbox. It wasn't like she didn't have SOME scrap of a reason to be angry.
But I agree, it was a silly thing to sue for.
Posted by: Valerie Masciarelli at November 10, 2005 03:24 PM