Pleito del Día: ¿Cómo se dice 'd-bag'?
The rain in Spain falls mainly on... a**holes? Well, only if most Spaniards are like Tomas Delgado -- and we're guessing (and hoping) they're not.
After all, since chutzpah like this doesn't come along often. Our latest Lawsuit of the Day hails from Spain, via CNN:
A Spanish businessman withdrew a controversial lawsuit Wednesday against the family of a teenage boy he struck and killed while driving a luxury car.Tomas Delgado had filed a suit asking the dead boy's parents to pay him €20,000 ($29,400) on the grounds that the collision that killed their teenage son also damaged his Audi A-8.
After public outrage ensued, Delgado dropped the suit -- but was none too happy about it:
The businessman had insisted in a recent television interview that he was a victim, too. He was not present for a court hearing Wednesday. His lawyer told the court that Delgado felt that the extensive publicity amounted to a public lynching.
A high-tech lynch mob for an uppity Audi driver. Who was reportedly driving 107 miles per hour in an area where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour. Who hit the boy from behind, according to the boy's father, and "dragged [him] 106 meters (347 feet) along a rural highway."
Read more in the full article (which includes an interesting digression about how quickly you need to file your notice of appeal in Spanish courts; their appeal periods make ours look like an eternity).
Driver drops bid to sue family of boy he killed [CNN]
(28) Comments
What up with the RN web-poll question on the side-bar?!
RN's to 190 and clean bed pans?
why the hell is milbank laying off folks? first i've heard of this .... then again, i live under a rock
well played on "como se dice 'd-bag'"
if he was a fairy queen, why was he stalking some chick?
why the hell is milbank laying off folks? first i've heard of this .... then again, i live under a rock
How fat was the kid to cause that much damage?
Heath Ledger was a victim...
OF MURDER!!!111
it's getting to be the case that you can barely drive to the country club without hitting los pobres. los pobres shouldn't even be looking at my audi, let alone damaging it.
wait, so did the fat kid get a cold offer even after he spilled his drink on the red-headed summer associate? Why is nobody talking abou this?!
Is the family suing el-dickwad? I sure hope so.
D-baggery is not uncommon in Spain.
Remember, this is the same country that claims that any gold and valuables it stole from the Americas is still its property after being lost on sunken ships.
I'm glad I don't live in Spain. In China, if some poor fat kid stepped out in front of my Mercedes S class denting my hood, I could make his family work off the repair costs.
D-baggery is not uncommon in Spain.
Remember, this is the same country that claims that any gold and valuables it stole from the Americas is still its property after being lost on sunken ships.
D-ouble posting is not uncommon in texas.
Remember, this is the same poster who posted the same thing 8 minutes apart.
They also pulled out of Iraq after the Madrid bombings. Not a good precedent.
3:46, that's just fine. We recently saw that pulling out earned them "do not bomb" status from AQ. Huh? There were people in Spain to do what? Oh.
From the article:
Shortly after the collision, a judge dismissed criminal charges against Delgado after concluding that he had committed no criminal infraction, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.
The teen's mother, Rosa, told the newspaper that the family was given three days to appeal the judge's ruling, but they were too distraught to pursue it. She also told the newspaper that her family's lawyer advised her and her husband not to pursue criminal charges.
After the collision, Delgado's insurance company paid the family €33,000 ($48,500).
Good to see the US dollar is still strong in Spain!
Seriously, the kid did ding his car.
D-bag?? How about "worst person ever"
So noone noticed that Lat's 107mph thing isn't accurate? The guy was going 70mph in a 55mph zone . . . which I don't think is really all that fast (normal traffic flow really) . . .
read the full article, 8:32... dumbass
OK, the U.S. does not have a stranglehold on frivoulous lawsuits and over-litigiousness, given that this stinker was apparently filed by an abogado.
This guy makes that crazy DC judge seem downright sane. He should have his license revoked and spend the rest of his life in a small south Atlantic island.
The kid went out on the road in the middle of the night with no reflective clothing so he couldn't be seen.
If he had pushed a dull concrete block into the middle of the road people would have no problem sueing him.
10:14 - yeah, and if he'd gone on a shooting rampage, he would be a murderer. Counterfactuals are fun, but not terribly relevant, wouldn't you agree?
Not that it makes him any less of a douche (and possibly negligent), but the CNN article says he was driving 70 mph -- not 107._
Hijo de su puta madre! Son una bola de pendejos...this reminds me of when Costanza wanted compensation for the damage caused to his car by a hospital patient committing suicide. It appears "ducha" is sufficient to literally translate but the meaning is lost in translation as "pendejo" is much more of an equivalent.