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Lawyer: Lawsuit possible after teen killed by Six Flags ride (http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8580338)

I know I am weighing in a little late on this story, but when I was watching Fox News yesterday morning and all the “experts” were arguing about whether Six Flags was liable or not, I decided that I had to say something. Besides everyone knows that I can’t shut-up about anything. My question is, “Whatever happened to personal responsibility?”. Everything is always someone else’s fault. Criminals aren’t responsible for their actions anymore, it was their rough childhood, it was the Twinkies they ate that clouded their judgement, they were insane at the time, etc., etc.. If someone does something stupid, it’s never their own fault. Humans are known to do stupid things from time to time, and sometimes they die because of it. Come on, the kid crawled over two six foot high fences, covered in warning signs. Obviously, he really didn’t have much of a head to lose. The last time I looked, city streets, subways, and railroad tracks aren’t surrounded by fences and warning signs, but it is common knowledge that if I run onto any of these and there is oncoming traffic or trains, that I will probably die. I haven’t heard of the city government getting sued the last time a kid ran into traffic after his ball. Instead of someone getting awarded a large settlement in this case the kid should instead be awarded a Darwin Award. The “pop” noise that was heard was Mother Nature sanitizing the gene pool. Ok, that was a little sadistic and cruel, and my sympathy and condolences do go to the family. I do sympathize with them however, primarily because my own family will probably also experience my untimely death because of some stupid action on my part. I am simply basing this on a past history of stupid accidents that I have had. I do beg of my family however, to not file a lawsuit on my behalf. It will be my fault for being stupid. I do not need the stupid action that resulted in my death aired on the 5 o’clock news and printed in the local newspaper headlines, Local Stupid Man Performs Stupid Action That Results In His Death, Family Suing. Please, just dig a hole and kick me into it, and tell everyone that it was just a misfortunate accident and spare them the details. I do want to leave with a small shred of dignity. You may say, “What a dumb subject for Independence Day.”, but I say that this fits right in with the ideals of the Founding Fathers when they penned the Declaration of Independence. They championed the ideas of freedom and personal responsibility. We just need to get our country back to those founding ideals. I would like to give this story my own headline: Lawsuit possible despite teen being killed by his own stupidity.

Now a case that does deserve a lawsuit is the story about the woman who died on the Emergency Room floor. This is disgusting. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/hospital.woman.death/)

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