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Re: Nice Planet © 2009
Re: Nice Planet © 2009
And I see yours. You shouldn't have to go into work everyday worrying you might kill someone due to circumstances beyond your control.
This would be a clever way of diluting the lawsuit. And BNSF certainly has the lawyer power to pull it off. What would probably happen, though, is the victim would play the "look what this big old mean corporation is doing to me" card and turn the publicity against BNSF.
That's a good part of the problem with this thing: the media. The couple knows that BNSF would really rather not go through a long embarrassing lawsuit, and will gladly fork over a few grand to get them to ****. If lawsuits were kept confidential and no participants were identified publicly until resolved (if at all,) you'd see half this crap disappear. Same thing with sex crimes: no one would be able to run someone else's name through the mud by saying rape, and victims with borderline cases would still be able to come forward without fear.
Re: Nice Planet © 2009
For once, I'm being serious. Train crews can only blow the horn and set the brakes at "Emergency", and even then it may take a mile or more to stop a 100 million pound train. Not much help when a person is trying to cut around a gate 100 yards ahead. Even excluding the people who commit suicide by train, there are hundreds of injuries and fatalities a year. The crews are the ones who get to stare each victim in the eyes, then walk the train to find their remains strewn about.
Talk to a train crew about it. You'll probably find at least one of the crew has been in that situation, and they're just as much a victim.
EDIT: I do see your point - cyclical lawsuits are absurd. For that matter, lawsuits have gained the reputation of being entirely about greed, rather than recompense for some financial misdeed. However, I think a countersuit in this case would really highlight an issue most people don't see.
And I see yours. You shouldn't have to go into work everyday worrying you might kill someone due to circumstances beyond your control.
This would be a clever way of diluting the lawsuit. And BNSF certainly has the lawyer power to pull it off. What would probably happen, though, is the victim would play the "look what this big old mean corporation is doing to me" card and turn the publicity against BNSF.
That's a good part of the problem with this thing: the media. The couple knows that BNSF would really rather not go through a long embarrassing lawsuit, and will gladly fork over a few grand to get them to ****. If lawsuits were kept confidential and no participants were identified publicly until resolved (if at all,) you'd see half this crap disappear. Same thing with sex crimes: no one would be able to run someone else's name through the mud by saying rape, and victims with borderline cases would still be able to come forward without fear.
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