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Old 14-Jan-2008 | 10:10 AM
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Katrina Victim Sues for 3 Quadrillion Dollars

dumb americans

http://www.cynical-c.com/?p=9440
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 10:20 AM
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I didn't know Amercian hicks can count that high.
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 11:12 AM
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they cant...they just add lotsa zeros
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 11:14 AM
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but in all fairness...they are owed some loot...and some major loot at that!
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Cynikal.Mindset
but in all fairness...they are owed some loot...and some major loot at that!
ditto.
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 11:22 AM
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Old 14-Jan-2008 | 12:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Cynikal.Mindset
but in all fairness...they are owed some loot...and some major loot at that!
But it stated that with all the claims including that redicules one, that each claimant will receive approx 1 billion dollars. That's alotta loot.
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 12:18 PM
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I would initially sue for a kajillion trillion million...gotta start high!
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 12:21 PM
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Hahaha.. picture is priceless
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 03:38 PM
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Old 14-Jan-2008 | 03:58 PM
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wait.. why are they owed money?
An order was issued to leave the city... those that didn't got screwed..

I realize some people couldn't leave.. but most that suffered choose to wait out the storm at their own risk

yes.. maybe the order to leave the city came late, but it came nontheless....

stupid people
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by fingolfin
wait.. why are they owed money?
An order was issued to leave the city... those that didn't got screwed..

I realize some people couldn't leave.. but most that suffered choose to wait out the storm at their own risk

yes.. maybe the order to leave the city came late, but it came nontheless....

stupid people
Some parts of the city got hit so fast there was no warning.

Educate yo self foo
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:03 PM
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Yeah, but they didn't expect the levee to break and drown them, fingolfin. And besides, not a lot of people have other places to go to for shelter.

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Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:19 PM
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Yeah, but they didn't expect the levee to break and drown them, fingolfin. And besides, not a lot of people have other places to go to for shelter.
actually they did... the national weather service made a statement that they didn't expect the levies to hold BEFORE the storm hit land

Like I said, the people who didn't have options I understand
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by zyepher
Some parts of the city got hit so fast there was no warning.

Educate yo self foo
perhaps you need to educate yourself

http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...ricane_Katrina

so how did they get "hit so fast there was no warning?"
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:25 PM
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where was the relief effort 3 days after????
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Cynikal.Mindset
where was the relief effort 3 days after????
im not commenting about the disaster that was the relief effort...
im counter the statement that there was no warning.. there was a decent amount of warning, so much so that over 90% of the population of the city decided to heed it.

If the government was ordering you to leave and you don't, you don't have the right to sue them. If a sign says stop and you go and get hit by a car, are you going to sue Ontario for not doing enough to protect you?
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by fingolfin
im not commenting about the disaster that was the relief effort...
im counter the statement that there was no warning.. there was a decent amount of warning, so much so that over 90% of the population of the city decided to heed it.

If the government was ordering you to leave and you don't, you don't have the right to sue them. If a sign says stop and you go and get hit by a car, are you going to sue Ontario for not doing enough to protect you?
no i wont sue ontario for not giving me the warning but after i or somebody calls 911 and the help doesnt show up for that long a time....i will by all means sue them. it is now an established fact and this dumb administration has accepted that there was an unusually long delay....and so many ppl died just cuz of that.
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 04:46 PM
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true..

but now what if they told you "szuberi, you MUST not cross the road. You must run away from it now, and you don't. not only do you not, but you cross the road and get hit by a car (in no way am i saying I want you to get hit by a car), then what?"

They pretty much gave themselves a disclaimer.
Old 14-Jan-2008 | 05:02 PM
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but what if you didn't have the resources to evacuate?

no car? very little $? didn't have a place to go? couldn't just hop on a bus to somewhere? From what I understood, a lot of the people that didn't leave New Orleans because they jsut couldn't.. for whatever reason.


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