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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnnyReb on August 05, 2011, 07:07:58 PM

Title: What's the chance of lawsuits?
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 05, 2011, 07:07:58 PM


Three women were shoplifting at WAL-MART(?). One loss prevention officer caught and held one of them. The other two ran and a loss prevention officer chased them a good distance. They entered a flooded creek in an attempt to escape him. He was able to swim out of the swift water, they weren't. They're still searching for the body of one of the women. They were able to locate the other body because she was wearing an ankle braclet.

I bet they are several lawyers standingby to "console" the families.
Title: Re: What's the chance of lawsuits?
Post by: RightCoast on August 05, 2011, 08:04:20 PM
Good, because I'm pretty sure they are not allowed to chase the scum off the property. Some stores they are not allowed to chase outside the building.
Title: Re: What's the chance of lawsuits?
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 05, 2011, 10:48:03 PM
Suing and winning are two different things.  High chance of them suing, but very little chance of them winning outside the Northeast Corridor or Californistan.  Limitations on how far someone is supposed to pursue a thief would be purely a matter of store policy in almost all of the US, not an actual legal limitation.  The ambulance chasers would claim that the violation of such a policy (If one is in effect there) amounted to negligence, but there are several possible defenses to that. 
Title: Re: What's the chance of lawsuits?
Post by: Rugnuts on August 05, 2011, 10:52:00 PM
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a flooded creek

blame global warming climate change for the drownings. use carbon credits to pay the families.