by Talk By Tessa

Created on: May 02, 2008

Hiding Behind The Blindfold

Read all about it! Justice is found peeking from behind the blindfold.

The litigation bandwagon is alive and well. It is rolling along with the help of a justice system that has taken off the blindfold and donned dark glasses instead.

Individuals who put their brains on hold and do something incredibly stupid are reaping big rewards for that stupidity. Stupidity is paying off, big time.

Coming right behind these individuals is the "me too's," not so stupid, but more ulterior in their motives. Each and everyone climbing on the gravy train. Their thinking, "Hey it worked once, it'll work again."

The media plays it up, the attorney's rub their hands, and the "victim" is counting the money. When will this type of swindle, this type of scam stop? And of course that is exactly what it is, a scam, a swindle. Greed in caps.

What is being discussed here? What is the swindle, the scam?

Well, to name one... A diner claiming to have found something in the food that is being eaten. Could be anything, piece of glass, a bug, a worm, a piece of a body part, the fly in the soup gambit, the chipped tooth gambit, etc.

None of this is new, it' been going on for years, but in the past, the diner, the victim' were satisfied with a free meal. Nowadays, it's to the court they go, hippity-hop, and the judge, the jury, listens and then rewards the victim' the scam artist, with an amount in the millions. The blindfold slipped, justice was no longer "blind."

Take the "hot-coffee" cases. A woman wins a multi-million dollar suit because she bought a cup of coffee to take out, carried it to her car and puts it between her legs while trying to pop the lid. The coffee spills, she gets burned and she sues because the coffee was defective? Defective? Coffee? When she purchased the coffee she knew it would be hot, she had not purchased iced coffee! Was the woman playing with a full deck? Did she have both oars in the water? Yes we could say something was defective, but it wasn't the coffee. She was negligent and was rewarded for her own negligence!

Or take the "me-too" case that followed. Who could doubt that there would be one! Dollar signs in the eyes, a bank deposit slip at the ready and here comes the next "victim" claiming this or that or the other happened to them.

Then there was the college student who decided to climb up on a window sill and moon passers-by. An inane, juvenile act to begin with. The student falls out the window and sues. Intelligence at work or did he

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