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FRIVOLOUS LAW SUITS!
You all know how That’s Crazy hates it when idiots misuse the legal system.
DATELINE: IDIOTVILLE, U.S.A.
Here’s the scenario: A thief steals a Starbucks’ tip jar off the counter. The bad guy runs from the store. A coffee drinking good Samaritan chases the young bandit. While outside the store, the bad guy gets in a car and runs over the good Samaritan. The good guy dies. The bad guy is caught. The dead guy’s family forgives the tip jar killer and is now suing Starbucks for putting a tip jar on the counter.
H E L L O
You sue the store? What about suing the douche bag who killed your loved one?
That makes too much sense.
Could it be the tip jar thug has tiny pockets while Starbucks has pockets deeper than Wilt Chamberlain?
I hate this from every point of view. I hate that the good Samaritan was killed. I hate that his family forgave the scum bag who stole five dollars in dimes. I hate that the family thinks that suing a coffee shop will prevent this kind of atrocity from happening in the future.
Think how many sniveling h.s. kids are working behind the counter of some greasy spoon somewhere with a mason jar labeled tips.
That tip jar is a small incentive that might make an other wise miserable minimum wage job – that probably induces even worse acne – more tolerable.
Thanks to this frivolous lawsuit, will every restaurant have to pull the jar off the counter. It could happen. You see this law suit alleges that the crime would not have taken place had it not been for the lure of the tip jar on the counter. The family of the hero says the dimes and quarters sitting by the register promotes criminals to act like criminals.
Really?
Does the gum at the check out stand promote tooth decay? Does the chocolate in the rack promote lard on my belly?
Does that mean the diamond store should hide all their gems in the vault where I can’t see them just so a crack head passing by isn’t enticed into committing a crime?
And if that crack head does commit a crime, how is it the fault of the diamond store?
And if the crack head doesn’t commit a crime, how does an empty jewelry counter entice me to walk in and buy a diamond ring for my girlfriend?
The family is doing their hero-loved-one an injustice by suing the coffee shop for having a tip jar.
This is a sad case that is now only made sadder because it has entered into the court of frivolousness.
And that is crazy.