Some woman is suing her parents after tripping in their driveway when showing up for a surprise birthday party for her mother. Whiskey tango foxtrot! It disturbs me whenever I hear about putrid cases like this, whether the litigants are related or not… but suing your parents because they maintained “an icy driveway”? Who the heck maintains an icy driveway? What did they do… go to Home Depot and buy Magic Icy Driveway Dust and sprinkle it out before she arrived? Might the ice have had to do with… oh, I don’t know… WINTER??? Winter in Wisconsin, maybe!? Surprise! What, you’re mad because your father didn’t go out there with a chizel before you arrived and break his back picking away anything frozen so your clumsy fat arse doesn’t kiss the snow?
And she’s using the apology letter against her own parents?! So now… not only are we not supposed to apologize to the old Asian woman in the Accord we rear-ended at 46mph in our Tacoma while winking at a cute passerby… but now we’re not even supposed to say we’re sorry to our own relatives!? And why? Because, as we see here, any apology these days is an admission not only of remorse, but of guilt, fault, and negligence. Music to a shister’s ears. The lawyers will use our own common courtesy against us all.
Here’s the AP story:
Daughter Who Surprised Mom With Birthday Visit Sues Parents
UPDATED: 3:17 pm EDT July 13, 2006
MADISON, Wis. — An Illinois woman is suing her Wisconsin parents for maintaining an icy driveway that she blamed for a fall that broke her ankle two winters ago.This week, a federal judge refused to toss out the lawsuit, setting up a trial for November.
Carriel Louah, 25, visited Darlington, Wis., to surprise her mother on her birthday in January 2005. But the next morning, she was injured when she slipped and fell on her parents’ driveway. She filed suit against her parents earlier this year.
The daughter said that a letter from her mom apologizing months after the fall proves that her parents knew they had a defective gutter for years and did nothing about it.
She’s seeking more than $75,000 in damages for medical bills and lost wages.
Her parents said that she can’t prove the driveway was icy at the time or that their drainage system was faulty.
U.S. District Judge John Shabaz said that a jury should decide the matter.
Idiots… on marijuana.
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They need to take that one to the People Court.
I think this is a good case against evolution.
What kind of person sues their own parents for something like that? Surely, it’s her own fault as she should have been visiting her parents more often and perhaps taking care of the leaky gutter for them.
Rachel, I totally agree.
And by the way, How were they suppose to prepare for visitor’s if it was a surprise. I mean really, what ever happened to watching where you step, cause its winter and lets face it there is ICE?!
So i guess I should sue the forest for not maintaining itself and not the fact that I am a clutz that trips over roots. Right?!
Or the Ski resorts, because the slopes are sometimes icy and I fall down?
NO!!! We are people with faults, that includes physical imperfections. Which means, that this girl should apologize to her parents for this problem and drop the lawsuit. (yeah that’ll happen) This is what a selfish and greedy society we live in and it sucks.
merk ::
That’s right! Actually, there are SO many times that I wish some of the cases I hear about on the news would be tranferred to Judge Judy so I could hear her get verbally medieval on them. 
Rachel ::
I love your spin on it.
Narbhflaith :: Yes, the greed drives all… including junk like this court case. I love the part where you sue the forest!
And perhaps we should sue the Laws of Physics, too. We could call in a mdium to transfer the personified essence of the laws into a dummy that could stand trial on behalf of all of them (but especially gravity).
Thanks. I thought it was a pretty neat analogy myself. Yes, sue the laws of physics and Gravity; because we all know Gravity is the big problem. By the way, why isn’t she suing gravity? The answer money. It’s only worth suing someone with money. If you don’t have money or someone with money backing you up, you probably won’t get sued. People sue for money. That’s what it comes down to. I have never seen someone in People’s Court or in front of Judge Judy saying something like ‘I know the contracter did a shoty job, have him fix and finish the work correctly.’ Mostly, these people want more money than they paid out, for that stupid thing called ‘pain and suffering’. As far as i’m concerned, let them suffer.
I know I’m being mean but really. How often do you watch those shows and say ‘now, they have a reason to be there’. Most of those, cases your like ‘seriously, don’t you have something better to do’. Which of course they don’t, because they are there in court.
I twisted my ankle this weekend on a tree root. I’m wondering who I can sue in the forest. It hurts a little still. Anybody know?
Well, how about the tree that’s root tripped you. Or, you could sue the forest rangers, for not maintaining the forest to your liking.
Yes, the forest rangers know how dangerous the tree roots in the forest have gotten, yet they have done nothing to warn people.
And possibly a shoe that can get caught by a tree root was not manufactured properly.
Wow! The shoe company. I really hadn’t thought of that one. Great idea sue the shoe company. They have money. And, well I think this whole convo about suing has reached the bar of suing because you burned yourself on hot coffee.
LOL! Thanks Guys. I needed this. : )
well, the world now is becoming more crazy… our value system is at mess and we don’t even recognize now what is noble and what is disgrace. it seems that there is little we can do about it.
wow… I didn’t know people do this.. She most not got a lot of love as a child so turning on someone like family doesn’t mean much to hear. Or she just wanted to be lazy and not work and have her parents pay for it… Guess who’s not going to be attending any other surprise birthday parties… You guessed it!!
Living in Canada we do not see as much of this as the USA…
I share your frustration. If you are not bright enough to figure out it’s icy and you may slip.
Then you should not be able to sue someone else because you are not intelligent enough to take care of yourself in a obvious environment of nature.
However if they poured water on the driveway because you called and they new you were coming over. Then you may have a case.