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Tanstalas on 19 July 2010
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Seece said:
Kasz216 said:
dsister said:
Seece said:

I see the word "accused" not "confirmed" ... so all this hate aimed towards him could be completely unjustified.

That or it was confirmed he walked away ... if so then yeah, Karma got him good.


Yeah, I was thinking that as well. I thought in the US you were innocent till proven guilty...


... in a court of law.  Funny how people forget that last part.

That said... if he did to it... he was on break.

Could he of did something that would of helped?  Maybe.  Maybe not... but he wasn't obligated to. 

If he tried to help but it didn't help... would his insurance cover lawsuits?  They usually don't when your working off the company time.

If he did it... it was a pretty douchey thing to do... but i'm not ready to judge based on a very limited understanding of the situation.

fuck lawsuits, in a matter of life or death (which it clearly was) shit like that goes out the window.


I was about to try and cite a few cases in which people who tried to help someone then got sued by the person they tried to help until dsister said something about the good Samaritan law - so looked it up and in NYC (according to wikipedia) New York's law provides for immunity for those who assist in an emergency. So in this case I will agree with you, however, the law isn't applicable everywhere and it is defined differently by jurisdiction.

It is all well and good, let me ask you Seece, if you saw someone in distress and you moved them for whatever reason then the person turned around afterwards and sued you because they said that you paralyzed them by moving them and sued you for $1 million or so, bankrupted you and you had nowhere else to go, but had to live on the streets, would you still say the same thing?

The above paragraph is why people are hesitant to help others in distress.  I never even heard about the good Samaritan law before now, only the horror stories of people being sued into the ground by people that were offered assistance.



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