Ravenwood - 11/14/02 03:00 PM
Parents of a moronic MIT student who died while trying to get high off nitrous oxide are suing the college for failing to properly baby sit their 22-year old son. The Boston Herald reports that the suit "alleges MIT 'breached their duty to provide reasonable care, supervision and oversight of students in dormitories,' and 'should have known' there was 'drug use' at East Campus."
Perhaps the parents should have known their dumb-ass 22-year old son was getting hopped up on laughing gas. Now they have the nerve to fault the university for failing to supervise their 22-year old son?
Just ONCE, I'd like to serve on a jury for one of these trials. (Like it'd ever get to trial) I'd love to see the mortified look on the parent's faces when I stand up from the jury box and scream "YOUR IDIOT SON WAS A DOPEHEAD AND A MORON! YOU GET NOTHING! NOTHING!"
My insensitivity streak is in full view today.
Category: Dumb Criminals
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Steve, you may get your wish.
Suits like these are going to trial more and more frequently. It frightens me that personal responsibility is no longer a factor in the eyes of the law.
Someday, SOME DAY...when all the fucktards of the world have finished themselves off, the rest of us can gather 'round their fried, highed, died corpses (bad rhymes....just go with it, okay?) and sing "Happy Days Are Here Again" and commence with the art of living semi-sanely. Until then, we can shake our heads and hope to sit on the juries for the inevitable court cases.
Posted by: Da Goddess at November 14, 2002 4:20 PMI'm wondering what legal theory says that a 22 year old -- an adult who can legally vote, drink alcohol, purchase a gun, smoke, and enter contracts -- needs supervision. I haven't been called for jury duty in years, but the next time I get the card, I hope I'm put on a civil suit like this.
Posted by: Steve at November 14, 2002 4:40 PMMy friend Jenn with two 'n's said:
"hmmm. somehow I dont think you'd make it through jury selection... just call it a hunch"
The same is probably true for you, Steve.
Posted by: Ravenwood at November 14, 2002 5:28 PMOh.My.Fuck.
The world needs a superhero who has the power to kill fucktards (great word, J) with a single glance.
Posted by: michele at November 14, 2002 5:32 PMSTOP ME BEFORE I HUFF PAINT AGAIN! WHY ISN'T RICE STOPPING ME?! THOSE NEGLIGENT MONSTERS!
Posted by: Owen Courrèges at November 14, 2002 6:15 PMSteve, I actually did sit on a jury once. But it was a criminal trial, not a civil trial. And it was only a misdemeanor, so we couldn't recommend the death penalty for abject stupidity, even though the defendant richly deserved it :)
But your friend Jenn has a valid point.
Posted by: Steve at November 14, 2002 7:13 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
