nobody's fault but...well...yours
I love how people try to duck and diffuse the blame when they do something stupid, and when they get lawyers involved, it gets even stupider (and yes, I know it's not a word, but here it just fits).
I was watching a piece on the evening news last night about high speed chases and how there are lawyers trying to make some maneuvers the police use illegal, because sometimes people get injured.
One guy was speeding, and when the cops tried to pull him over he stepped on the gas and started a high speed chase. The cop behind him tried to spin him out but rear ended him, sending him into a tree or a pole or something and leaving him paralyzed. He's suing the police department. The lawyer says all the guy was doing was speeding. He doesn't deserve to be paralyzed when his offense was speeding.
That's just absurd. I don't give a damn what you were being pulled over for. I don't care if you're a serial killer, have 50 kilos of cocaine in the trunk or threw the wrapper of your McGriddle out the window, as soon as you see the flashing lights in the rear view mirror and decide to step on the gas, whatever happens from that point on is on YOU! It's not the cops' fault. It's not anybody else on the road's fault. You made the decision to endanger yourself and everyone else on the road. Nobody else did that for you or to you. If you die, it's on you. If you spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair, that's on you too. God forbid someone else gets injured as part of your decision to step on that pedal, but if they do, whether you hit them or not, that's on you too. If you did what you were supposed to do and pulled over, none of it happens. Everything bad that happens as a result of your decision rests squarely on you.
Then on a lighter note, there's Dick Vitale, who was holding two conversations at once yesterday, one happened to be live on a radio show, talking college basketball. He got confused or whatever and didn't realize he was on the air when he said he had talked with Billy Donovan, the University of Florida basketball coach. Apparently Billy told him in confidence the pro scouts were making a big mistake and they should be picking Al Horford over Joakim Noah (two Gator players), although he'd never come out and say that in public, but Dickey V did baybeeeeee.
Now he's backpedaling, saying it was all a joke and blaming the guys who interviewed him. I will concede they knew they had something hot and didn't go out of their way to stop Dick from spilling something juicy on their show, but if you're Dick Vitale, you have to know who you're talking to. That mistake is all on you...not the guys on the other end of the phone.
I was watching a piece on the evening news last night about high speed chases and how there are lawyers trying to make some maneuvers the police use illegal, because sometimes people get injured.
One guy was speeding, and when the cops tried to pull him over he stepped on the gas and started a high speed chase. The cop behind him tried to spin him out but rear ended him, sending him into a tree or a pole or something and leaving him paralyzed. He's suing the police department. The lawyer says all the guy was doing was speeding. He doesn't deserve to be paralyzed when his offense was speeding.
That's just absurd. I don't give a damn what you were being pulled over for. I don't care if you're a serial killer, have 50 kilos of cocaine in the trunk or threw the wrapper of your McGriddle out the window, as soon as you see the flashing lights in the rear view mirror and decide to step on the gas, whatever happens from that point on is on YOU! It's not the cops' fault. It's not anybody else on the road's fault. You made the decision to endanger yourself and everyone else on the road. Nobody else did that for you or to you. If you die, it's on you. If you spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair, that's on you too. God forbid someone else gets injured as part of your decision to step on that pedal, but if they do, whether you hit them or not, that's on you too. If you did what you were supposed to do and pulled over, none of it happens. Everything bad that happens as a result of your decision rests squarely on you.
Then on a lighter note, there's Dick Vitale, who was holding two conversations at once yesterday, one happened to be live on a radio show, talking college basketball. He got confused or whatever and didn't realize he was on the air when he said he had talked with Billy Donovan, the University of Florida basketball coach. Apparently Billy told him in confidence the pro scouts were making a big mistake and they should be picking Al Horford over Joakim Noah (two Gator players), although he'd never come out and say that in public, but Dickey V did baybeeeeee.
Now he's backpedaling, saying it was all a joke and blaming the guys who interviewed him. I will concede they knew they had something hot and didn't go out of their way to stop Dick from spilling something juicy on their show, but if you're Dick Vitale, you have to know who you're talking to. That mistake is all on you...not the guys on the other end of the phone.
John put this out here at 8:44 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home