Dead Accident Victim to Be Sued For Flying Body Parts

[Joe-Nathan]

WOW, JUST WOW:

http://www.newser.com/story/136459/d...ody-parts.html
FROM NEWSER
Court allows woman to sue estate of Chicago teen killed by train

– An appeals court in Illinois has decided that a dead Chicago teen can be sued for injuries caused by his own flying body parts. The 18-year-old almost-passenger ran in front of a train in an attempt to catch another train and was hit by an Amtrak going 70mph. A big chunk of his body was thrown onto a platform 100 feet away where it knocked down a 58-year-old woman, breaking her leg and wrist. The court decided that the teen's death was "reasonably foreseeable" and allowed the woman to sue his estate, the Chicago Tribune reports.

The woman's lawyer says that while details of the case are "very peculiar and gory and creepy," it is a clear case of negligence. "If you do something as stupid as this guy did, you have to be responsible for what comes from it," she says.

[Windwatcher]

Ok, this is so sick I can't believe the appeals court judges aren't part of some gory slasher movie.

[jess]

I agree with the judge on this one. It doesn't allow anything but the suit to go forward, where a jury can decide if there's merit to the suit.

Yes, it is gory, but you have to the think of the woman that was minding her own business when some man makes a terrible error in judgement, is hit by a train and the woman is hit so hard by flying body parts, a leg and wrist are broken. I know how I'd feel. I'd feel the same if he was playing with dynamite and I was hit by flying body parts.

[HarvestMoon]

How big of an estate will an eighteen have? Not much.

[jess]

When I was 18, my estate would have been $200 of garage sale furniture and a 1963 Chevy pickup with holes in the floorboard you could throw a cat through.

That's what I'm thinking they're not elaborating on in the article. The young man must be a trust fund baby, or similar and a high priced attorney pulled some strings to get the suit blocked.

[Joe-Nathan]

I think the family of kid was trying to sue the R/R company, but a judge thru it out do the fact that the accident did not occur at a formal R/R crossing. The judge basically stated that the R/R cannot be held liable due to someones idiotic idea to cross in front of a moving train.

And my estate at 18 included guns, water skies, ski boat and decoys. Plus I did have a life insurance policy (w/ my parents as benificeries) thru a very short job at I had at PHI.

[Windwatcher]

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If she got hit in the head with a meteor, can she sue God?

[Katfive]

She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If she got hit in the head with a meteor, can she sue God?

OK, let's say one of your "clients" died in the act with you right at the point of climax. (Stay with me here, I have a point) Three weeks later you end up with child (I know, nothing short of miraculous at your age) Wouldn't you be able to sue the estate for child support? LSU, we need a legal opinion!

[Windwatcher]

OK, let's say one of your "clients" died in the act with you right at the point of climax. (Stay with me here, I have a point) Three weeks later you end up with child (I know, nothing short of miraculous at your age) Wouldn't you be able to sue the estate for child support? LSU, we need a legal opinion!

You are so naive, Kattie! My clients are too old to father children, so your point is stupid!

[Katfive]

You are so naive, Kattie! My clients are too old to father children, so your point is stupid!

Yeah, but as you said, the guy was "just in the wrong place at the wrong time."