Frags Rant on America

[Fragmentsofme]

I love living here, don't get me wrong, but we have serious issues here in the States. It seems lately that the image that people are sending out are that we are all victims. The first example that comes to mind right now is, obviously, Pete Rose. The man signs a paper stating that he gambled on baseball and therefore was banned from baseball for life. For the next 14 years he moan and complains about how innocent he is and then writes a book stating he gambled, apologizes for it, and now he's the victim for being banned from baseball. Another example is the court case of the smokers suing the tobacco industry. As if they didn't know that smoking could hurt them. Or the obese people suing McDonald's. Their all victims, they all were abused by the industry. It's time for these people to take responsibility for their own stupid actions. I've been eating McDonald's for as long as I can remember, but I still maintain an athletic frame by playing sports instead of *****ing about how fat I am and thinking up ways to make money off the people that "made me fat." It makes me sick that these people, instead of helping themselves, seek to blame others for their own misfortunes. I don't even understand how these make it to the court room, and aren't even thrown out. A woman spills hot coffee (how else do you drink coffee?) on herself (while driving), and instead of taking responsibility for her actions, sues the company that gave her the coffee. And the worst is that the media is perceiving these people as victims. That's what pisses me off the most. That the media gives these people attention and shows them as victims when it's their own f:censor:g fault!!! It's time for peole to start realizing it's their own faults that they smoke, or eat too much, or spill hot coffee on themselves.:rant:

[PissedPrincess]

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[Durango53]

Amen bro Amen

[YankeesBabe79]

There are definately way too many "ambulance chasers" and lawsuit happy people around today. I dont understand why everyone acts like a "victim" either :sigh:

I guess some people need to quit being so self centered and start being alot more thankful to live in such a wonderful place as the USA.

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[metsfan001]

I love living here, don't get me wrong, but we have serious issues here in the States. It seems lately that the image that people are sending out are that we are all victims. The first example that comes to mind right now is, obviously, Pete Rose. The man signs a paper stating that he gambled on baseball and therefore was banned from baseball for life. For the next 14 years he moan and complains about how innocent he is and then writes a book stating he gambled, apologizes for it, and now he's the victim for being banned from baseball.
I won't even get started here.
Another example is the court case of the smokers suing the tobacco industry. As if they didn't know that smoking could hurt them.
Or the obese people suing McDonald's. Their all victims, they all were abused by the industry. It's time for these people to take responsibility for their own stupid actions. I've been eating McDonald's for as long as I can remember, but I still maintain an athletic frame by playing sports instead of *****ing about how fat I am and thinking up ways to make money off the people that "made me fat." It makes me sick that these people, instead of helping themselves, seek to blame others for their own misfortunes.
One of the teenager's DAILY diet was an EggMcMuffin in the morning and, get this, a Big Mac with Super Size Fries and an SS Coke. Yes, McDonald's fault indeed. :hmm: One of the fathers said, "I always thought McDonalds was healthy for my children." Agree with you again.
I don't even understand how these make it to the court room, and aren't even thrown out. A woman spills hot coffee (how else do you drink coffee?) on herself (while driving), and instead of taking responsibility for her actions, sues the company that gave her the coffee.
And she won the case, with $2 million to her credit. :hmm:
And the worst is that the media is perceiving these people as victims. That's what pisses me off the most. That the media gives these people attention and shows them as victims when it's their own f:censor:g fault!!! It's time for peole to start realizing it's their own faults that they smoke, or eat too much, or spill hot coffee on themselves.:rant:
One more thing: the woman who sued a playground on behalf of her 2-year-old son for "lost wages" in his supposed acting and modeling career. :angry:

[Obri]

Agreed completely Frag. Sadly, this has cast a bad light on American culture, and in the last couple of years, it has found it's way to the UK. The world is now full of people trying to make more money at the expense of others.

[PopTop]

"Next to the confrontation between two highly trained, finely honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet."
- - - Bill Veeck, Hustler's Handbook, 1965

"Greed versus Greed makes for the kind of lawsuits that are settled between the lawyers as soon as both sides decide to take what they can get. Principle versus Principle is a holy war, and no holy war was ever settled out of court."
- - - Bill Veeck, 30 Tons a Day, 1972



:cool: And to think, most people think of Veeck as just that crazy guy who hired a midget.

[rockin500]

bastards should all be shot. :angry:

[Liter22]

I could blame burger king or mcdonalds for being fat. Then agian I have a brain and I hate lawyers (considering I want to be one I find that ironic) I would never blame anyone else for my bad eating habbits. I know what I eat and when I eat, it would be easy enough for me to try and stop those habits, which is what I have been doing. The thing that really gets me are the people insisting that they have a desies just for the fact that they are over weight. That really cracks me up.:rotf:

[Nymet31]

I'm a true believer in what goes around comes around.

all those people that sue for stupid things will get screwed someway, someday, somehow.

I knew this lady who syed a local restaurant because she fell on a wet leaf in the parking lot. She got $500,000 for it!!!!


2 years later a guy was walking down her block and tripped in front of her house because her sidewalk was broken. He sued her and won.....$500,000!!

That is Justice