Ravenwood - 05/09/05 07:15 AM
This guy needs to go to jail.
To a dessert shop customer, the severed fingertip found in a pint of frozen custard could be worth big dollars in a potential lawsuit. To the shop worker who lost it, the value is far more than monetary.Aside from the despicable lottery mentality, refusing to allow the guy to get his finger reattached should be some sort of crime (if it's not already). He should also be facing a civil lawsuit from the guy who lost his finger.But Clarence Stowers still has the digit, refusing to return the evidence so it could be reattached. And now it's too late for doctors to do anything for 23-year-old Brandon Fizer.
Even if Stowers decides to sue, an expert in medical law said the fingertip could easily have been returned while preserving the evidence."The man who lost the finger has the superior claim," said Paul Lombardo, who teaches at the University of Virginia's law school. "It's his finger and he might be able to use it."
Lombardo said Stowers could have photographed the fingertip, taken a bit of flesh for DNA analysis or gotten an affidavit from the surgeon who would have reattached the digit.
"There is nothing that would prevent preserving the chain of evidence," Lombardo said.
Category: Fall of Western Civilization
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I'm not a lawyer, but I think they could probably charge him with maiming. Even if the charge doesn't stick it would at least cost him the price of a lawyer to defend himself.
Posted by: Brass at May 9, 2005 10:13 AMWhat an asshole! I hope he gets buku bucks sued out of him.
Posted by: Rhett at May 9, 2005 4:53 PMI THINK THE FINGER SHOULD HAVE BEEN FORCEFULLY TAKEN AWAY FROM HIM THAT MOMENT BY THE AUTHORITIES, AND THE VICTIM SHOULD HAVE HAD HIS FINGER ATTACHED. SO TECHNICALLY, THE AUTHORITIES AND THE BASTARD WHO KEPT THE FINGER SHOULD BE SUED OF SENT TO JAIL. THE AUTHORITIES ARE RESPONSIBLE BECAUSE THEY ALLOWED THE GREEDY ICE CREAM EATING SUE-HAPPY PIG MONEY GRUBBING PIECE OF CRAP TO KEEP SOMEONE ELSE'S BODY PART FOR MONEY. I HOPE SOMEONE KIDNAPS THIS GUY, CHOPS OFF HIS FINGERS---NOT ONE, BUT ALL TEN, PUTS THEM IN A FREEZER, LOCK THE DOOR TO THE FREEZER, PUT HIS STINKING ASS IN A CHAIR AND PUT HIM THERE WITH HIS BLOODY FINGERLESS HANDS, AND DANGLE THE KEY TO THE FREEZER IN FRONT OF HIS STUPID UGLY MONKEY FACE. THEN I WOULD SUE HIM FOR SPILLING BLOOD ON THE FLOOR. THIS IS SOMETHING HE WOULD DESERVE. THE BASTARD! BLOOCATGIRL STRIKES AGAIN!!!
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