your opinion please.?

Question

I feel sorry for Josh Hancock (mlb baseball player killed when he ran into the back of a tow truck while he was also drunk) but how crazy it is that his family is suing the restaurant for serving him drinks, the tow truck company because their drunk son ran into the back of it and the man that the tow truck was helping is also being sued for some crazy reason!!!!! what do you think about this???? This is just as bad as the people that sue mcdonalds because they're fat or 7 eleven because they spill their coffee. Im fat but i'm nor suing mcdonalds for that.

Answer 1

i do feel sorry for him, it's pretty obvious all he was was a meal ticket to his family, they dont care about him, trying to sue for things that were his fault and if he had lived would most likely have agreed upon. shame on them for leaving people last image of him as having money grubbing family after a quick buck. the shame of it all, I hope they lose and get sued for something, that and i hope he left his money to better people than them.

Answer 2

Sadly, there is legal precidence if the restaurant served him alcohol if they had any reasonable and prudent reason to believe hs might be or become legally drunk. Most restaurants have a policy of no more than 1 drink per hour and and many refuse service after 3 drinks. If the restaurant chose to violate their guidelines because he was a "celebrity" they can easily be found liable.

As far as the tow truck that he hit, they would legally have absolutely no grounds unless it could be prove that the tow truck violated a stop sign or red light and turned into traffic and was hit. It is highly likely, because of the victim that hit them and now is deceased inebriated state, that insurance will rull in favor of the tow truck and pay of any and all damages. As the decedent was intoxicated, depending on where his home state was and what state he was driving in when the accident was incurred, it could be his car insurance will not pay for any of his damages or medical treatment on the scene as he was driving illegally.

Answer 3

Agreed. It's even more ridiculous because the hostess at
Shannon's Bar where Hancock was drinking tried to keep him from driving and offered to call him a cab. He was drunk, talking to a woman on his cell phone when he rammed into the back of a tow truck. Oh yeah, he was in a rental truck because he had been drunk three nights earlier and wrecked his own truck. I don't think this case has much value for the plaintiffs.

Answer 4

It's just like suing the gun makers or the cigarette makers. The whole "It's not my fault" attitude.
They are just going for the money.
Next they will be suing Miller or Coors. Why not sue Chevy and Ford, the people that paved the road and Exxon for suppling the gasoline. Let's not forget suing MLB because he was out drinking celebrating a win or drowning a loss.
But it will keep happening as long as lawyers keep getting 33%

Answer 5

That's the negative side of good court system. In Ukraine it takes about a year to solve even a very important problem, so if you start suing you'll regret it. That's why nobody is even thinking about things like that.

I'm sorry for his family but those ridiculous things won't make them happier. Those people are not guilty and that is obvious

Answer 6

I agree that it's ridiculous. Along with the possibility that his family may be money hungry, they may simply be hurt and in denial. Some people can't accept that a loved one's death was an accident, or even worse, his or her OWN fault. Some families want someone, ANYONE, to blame and punish. A lawyer with something to gain will be encouraging of these feelings, no doubt.

Answer 7

I agree with you completely. The family's actions demonstrate the total disregard for personal responsibility so prevalent n today's society. I'm sure they are claiming to just want to save other people the nasty restaurant's over-serving. The reality is, they are taking a shot at finding a sympathetic jury that will buy their sob story and grant them a windfall decision.

Answer 8

I don't agree with suing business.Even in the work place the employer gets cough up in all kinds of bull.I don't see it changing but I would like to see people taking responsibly for their actions

Answer 9

And now this sort of insanity is coming here to UK!

I don't know of the case that you speak of - but equally stupid cases are now being brought here in UK -clogging up court time and the only people getting rich are the solicitors/lawyers - and the ghastly people who advertise on television!

No offence to you because it is our own stupid faulty but anything that happens in your country - thanks to the likes of the sainted (not) Mr. Blaire - everything American is now greeted in this country as though handed down from God - and how sick is that when you tune in to JERRY SPRINGER!

Oh My God - please tell me those people are churned out from some sort of horror factory - they are not real ...........
ARE THEY?!!

But guess what ........... we have now bred something called JEREMY KYLE who is a Springer wannabe but with a crass English working class accent - he doesn't even have an iota of Springers humour or charm - and God knows that was difficult to say!

But yep - where there is misadventure there is now some idiot trying to make a bob/buck - wow, I am getting into this translation stuff well/good!!!!!

Answer 10

Sounds to me like the parents don't believe in taking personal responsibility for ones actions, and they evidently taught that to their son or he would have been more responsible. Sad.