Today was just absolutely busy as will be many days for some time to come... left this morning for work, met a friend for dinner and we rode together to a high school first round basketball game with two sons of friends of ours, and than home around 9:45.. so it has been a long day. Since I'm keyed up and can't sleep, I will empty some thoughts from my noggin.
It was an absolutely beautiful day with sunshine, a few clouds, and yet a bit warmer.. and clear enough to have mountains with snow cover looming in the distance. We've had a couple of weeks of rain and after a little over a week with 11 inches of rain, we are soggy and needed a day like this to let it sink in, because it has been pooling everywhere and overflowing. And flowers are blooming and it will now be a good time to plan for a weekend of some new plantings to go in the yard... If only there was time for it.
This morning listening to talk radio, the end of one program as they are wrapping it up they tell this story for which just puts into our faces the ridiculous nature of "frivilous lawsuits" rather than just having a judge shrug there shoulders and say "tough" and bang the gavel, case closed. They tell it this way; a man goes to a hockey game of some team named the Sabers. (??) and when they lose badly he heads to a local pub and drowns his sorrows of his beloved teams defeat until late into the evening. He than stumbles down into the subway, buys his ticket and than manages to end up down on the tracks with a train barreling straight for him. He's lying with his legs inside the tracks and his head on the outside clear of the path of the train. The train hits him amputating both legs. His blood alcohol level is .13 considerably over the limit for public drunkenness and considerably not in control of his ability to function and stay out of harms way. But the stunner is that he sued the transit district for negligence in that he claims it is the responsibility of the conductor to stop the train for objects in the track...
This is just unbelievable, but he is than awarded $2.3 million ~ he should have gotten nothing more than perhaps to cover his medical bills since it happened on subway property, but not a dime for his stupidity, recklessness, irresponsibilty. He should have had to pay for the EMT's that responded to the scene, the cost of cleanup to remove his limbs and haz mat matter, and than have paid a large fine for public drunkenness and reckless behavior. We have become a sad state of political correctness and have no one take personal responsibility for the mishaps that we place ourselves into or cause against others. It's always got to be someone elses fault.
It's kind of morbid humor, but one of the announcers as he's bringing their radio show to an end, says well I'm heading down to the liquor store to have a six pack and than going to check into the local metro train schedule because his family could use a little nest egg security from the court system.
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