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Okay, quick run through for those of you who don't know, Josh Hancock, a professional baseball player, died in a car crash a couple weeks ago. His BAC was twice the legal limit, he was speeding and talking on his cell phone, and not wearing a seatbelt. He wandered out of his lane and slammed into the back of a tow truck that was helping a stalled car.

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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...ock.lawsuit.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

By the way, the restaurant he was at offered to get him a cab home several times..
 
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THAT is SO ridiculous. This kind of stuff makes me sick. I know they are grieving and upset..... but it is NO ONE'S fault but his that he got in that wreck.

PERSONAL responsibility.... what ever happened to that. He acted irresponsibly and he had to pay the ultimate price..... thank God he didn't take anyone else with him.
 
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I honestly think the Tow Truck driver should sue the estate for the cost of his truck...
 
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Im gonna sue all of them including Sports Illistrated for wasting my time. I think ESPN reported on this too, added to the list.
 
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THAT is SO ridiculous. This kind of stuff makes me sick. I know they are grieving and upset..... but it is NO ONE'S fault but his that he got in that wreck.

PERSONAL responsibility.... what ever happened to that. He acted irresponsibly and he had to pay the ultimate price..... thank God he didn't take anyone else with him.
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I completely agree... that is ridiculous :rolleyes:
 
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Im gonna sue all of them including Sports Illistrated for wasting my time. I think ESPN reported on this too, added to the list.
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Now that's a suit I could get behind . . . . along with one against everyone reporting over the Paris Hilton circus, the Britney brouhaha, and any of the other trivial pursuit du jour stories that are inundating even the NEWS . . .
 
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Class action suits are a snare and a delusion. Those are the suits that make tons of money for the law firms and the clients all get a check for $0.25 each. You let the fools do the heavy lifting getting a class action suit going, then you cut in line with suit of your own. ;)
 
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There are some states with very specific laws against serving the already drunk... if thats the case, I can almost see something there, being that their could be some criminal negligence?

For the drivers, that should be thrown out tomorrow...
 
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That's rediculous... so it's the fault of everybody accept the guy that got behind the wheel drunk basically?

Fault of the kid with the stalled car, fault of the tow truck driver, fault of the restaurant...
Hell why don't they bring the auto manufacturer into this for building the car that he was driving while he was drunk... or the people who make the cell phone that he was talking on because if they didn't make that cell phone he wouldn't have been distracted.
 
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The fact they sued everyone in a 4-mile radius of the accident makes it look bad, but the restaurant issue is potentially valid.

It's understood that for the entire 31/2 hours that Josh Hancock was there that he was handed drinks," Keith Kantack, a lawyer for Dean Hancock, said. "It's our understanding that from the moment Josh Hancock entered Mike Shannon's that night that he was never without a drink."

If it can be proven that the restaurant kept serving him drinks after he clearly appeared to be drunk, the restaurant is in huge trouble, and not just of the 'fork over lots of cash' kind.

And I kind of see the point about the guy with the Geo. The last Geo rolled off the line in 1998 and they weren't big, sturdy cars to start with. A car shouldn't stall when it gets cut off in traffic. That is a traffic hazzard. I see plenty of nasty, disintegrating cars on the road, and they are a legit problem.
 
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That's rediculous... so it's the fault of everybody accept the guy that got behind the wheel drunk basically?

Fault of the kid with the stalled car, fault of the tow truck driver, fault of the restaurant...
Hell why don't they bring the auto manufacturer into this for building the car that he was driving while he was drunk... or the people who make the cell phone that he was talking on because if they didn't make that cell phone he wouldn't have been distracted.
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Yeah . . . Sharky, I think we're on the same page. Remember "being responsible for your own actions?" :rolleyes:
 
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The fact they sued everyone in a 4-mile radius of the accident makes it look bad, but the restaurant issue is potentially valid.

It's understood that for the entire 31/2 hours that Josh Hancock was there that he was handed drinks," Keith Kantack, a lawyer for Dean Hancock, said. "It's our understanding that from the moment Josh Hancock entered Mike Shannon's that night that he was never without a drink."

If it can be proven that the restaurant kept serving him drinks after he clearly appeared to be drunk, the restaurant is in huge trouble, and not just of the 'fork over lots of cash' kind.

And I kind of see the point about the guy with the Geo. The last Geo rolled off the line in 1998 and they weren't big, sturdy cars to start with. A car shouldn't stall when it gets cut off in traffic. That is a traffic hazzard. I see plenty of nasty, disintegrating cars on the road, and they are a legit problem.
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oh give me a break. I drove a 1990 protege until 2003....when I sold it to my friend, and as far as I know, the car is still around and kicking.

Around the year 1999, my lil protege (my sister's at the time) stalled in the middle of an intersection when she was trying to make a left turn, as she was driving away from the dealership. No crash occurred or anything...but I am just trying to make a point...

The car had great maintenance, it had just been checked by a dealer and that still happened. No other incident happened with the car stalling or anything. Things HAPPEN. THey are machines that are completely unpredictable.

My aunt's 2002 prius had a piece of its engine literally FALL OUT OF THE CAR (or something equally dramatic happened, lol) while she was on the highway, causing her car to stall in 2004. The dealer had NEVER, ever seen anything like it. It was the only case of it happening in the entire US. Should she have been sued had it caused a crash??

If the Geo guy gets sued...the implications from that would be enormous....
 
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casablanca1 said:
The fact they sued everyone in a 4-mile radius of the accident makes it look bad, but the restaurant issue is potentially valid.

It's understood that for the entire 31/2 hours that Josh Hancock was there that he was handed drinks," Keith Kantack, a lawyer for Dean Hancock, said. "It's our understanding that from the moment Josh Hancock entered Mike Shannon's that night that he was never without a drink."

If it can be proven that the restaurant kept serving him drinks after he clearly appeared to be drunk, the restaurant is in huge trouble, and not just of the 'fork over lots of cash' kind.

And I kind of see the point about the guy with the Geo. The last Geo rolled off the line in 1998 and they weren't big, sturdy cars to start with. A car shouldn't stall when it gets cut off in traffic. That is a traffic hazzard. I see plenty of nasty, disintegrating cars on the road, and they are a legit problem.
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Like I said earlier, the restaurant offered to call him a cab, but he declined. That puts the ball pretty squarely in his court, I think.

Also, the guy with the car. As far as I know, at least in Minnesota, you're only negligent if you let your car run out of gas, since that's entirely preventable. I don't think you can be held responsible for mechanical problems.

Also, it said his car stalled after spinning out from him being cut off, that was the actual police report. I really don't think he should be held responsible for that.

These allegations all sound completely absurd, and I'm hoping the judge dismisses the charges.
 
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I drove an older econo car for years and I'm certainly not suggesting everyone needs to drive a new, perfect car. But since everyone's so hot on personal responsibility, I thought I'd mention that there is a chance the Geo was a POS car being driven by someone who had a responsibility to either fix or junk the vehicle and chose to keep driving it instead. Maybe not, maybe it was just one of those things. But there are a lot of nasty old cars out on the road that are not just older and economy-type cars; they're hideous rolling junkers that are clearly waiting some perfectly dramatic moment to die in midstream on an interstate.
 
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