The answer is D:
Become a super villian:

I'm sure there's probably a little warning sticker up there somewhere that will void the lawsuit.

Bodie: He said he didn't feel like it. And I said, you'd better! And he said, or what? And I said, or else you're gonna be in trouble. And he said jam it.

Professor Hathaway: That's a wonderful story, Bodie. I noticed you've stopped stuttering.

Bodie: I've been giving myself shock treatments.

Professor Hathaway: Up the voltage.

PoopStain: Sounds to me like they should have let this guy die.

this reminds me of the Married with Children episode where the burglar that Al beat up sues him, so Al punches him in court and countersues for damage to his hand. In other words Amtrak should sue him for unauthorized use of their electricity as well as damage to the top of their train cars.

strangeguitar: The answer is D:
Become a super villian:

Or a superHERO... kind of like Ernest as Electro-Man in Ernest Goes to Jail.

strangeguitar: The answer is D:
Become a super villian:


BEHOLD! I AM.... THE SHOCKER!!!

There's a very famous (i.e., used in many tort textbooks) US tort case similar to the one in the article where the guy who was injured while "trespassing" was actually moved onto the restricted area while getting his ass beat and the question that came out of it was whether trespass must be voluntary. Anyone remember the name of that case?

clipperbox: strangeguitar: The answer is D:
Become a super villian:


BEHOLD! I AM.... THE SHOCKER!!!

I would love to see that hero emblem

The failtage is so ugly I had to adblock it. Now Fark looks much more random.

Misuse of fail tag.

Just dropping by to remind everyone that either the "Dumbass" or "Asinine" tag would have been perfectly appropriate for this submission.

There is no reason for the "Fail" tag to exist.

butt

I failed to Type 'Failtag' I'm a big pile of fail.

/S'true, just ask my mom.

Tag IS for Darwin missing, for sure is.

They should have let him die, he is not fit to live. Be sure if i ever found an injured burglar at my house, I take no chances. Better to kill the scumbag than risk getting sued.

In other news banks are required to stop using alarms because the addition of police during a bank robbery risks more human lives.

ummm.. How 'bout A) don't be such a drunken idiot? Personal responsibility, blah and blah.

I'm shocked by this.

What a fark'n idiot! Why oh why, will someone please explain to me how people can sue other people because they are stupid beyond any measurable means?

scruffy1: Bodie: He said he didn't feel like it. And I said, you'd better! And he said, or what? And I said, or else you're gonna be in trouble. And he said jam it.

Professor Hathaway: That's a wonderful story, Bodie. I noticed you've stopped stuttering.

Bodie: I've been giving myself shock treatments.

Professor Hathaway: Up the voltage.

Hehehehe - Anyone want popcorn?

/one of my favorite movies

Hope this guy and his SLEAZY lawyer get thrown out of court ASAP. Shiat like this makes me sick!

Daanon: What a fark'n idiot! Why oh why, will someone please explain to me how people can sue other people because they are stupid beyond any measurable means?

Lawyers.

/with apologies to Miss Feas.

Can there be a douche tag?

/I call for dumbass on this one, or stupid.

3rd degree burns over 85% of his body?

I wouldn't rule out Darwin yet.

Is he suing for enough to cover lost appendages? Morbid, but curious.

It was 2 years ago so either the courts move slow or the medical bills are becoming too much to handle.

Only 27,500 volts
Lucky for him it wasn't 100,000 ohms

clipperbox: strangeguitar: The answer is D:
Become a super villian:


BEHOLD! I AM.... THE SHOCKER!!!

It happened on a train. It would be more like:

BEHOLD! I AM ... THE CONDUCTOR!!!

Ticket, please.

Need a special tag for Frivolous Lawsuits as this is one of those.

AbbeySomeone Quote 2008-08-31 06:43:22 PM
Is he suing for enough to cover lost appendages? Morbid, but curious.


Probably cause he can't use his joystick anymore while playing PC games in his parent's basement.

I'm totally surprised that he even lived. 85% 3rd degree burns would kill almost everyone. I guess he had the will to live and sue. Typical American.

40oz_A_Knight: There's a very famous (i.e., used in many tort textbooks) US tort case similar to the one in the article where the guy who was injured while "trespassing" was actually moved onto the restricted area while getting his ass beat and the question that came out of it was whether trespass must be voluntary. Anyone remember the name of that case?

Obama v McCain?

Geez, cases like these just make me so damn sad!
How can that even be allowed to go into court? Dumbass moran got himself electrocuted while trespassing and trying to commit other crimes. The fact that he was too stupid/drunk to find a safer work environment for his nocturnal activities, should be enough to simply throw the case out the window... and him right behind it.

There should be a huge whopping clause in the law, saying that injuries sustained while committing crimes/felonies are only to be blamed upon the criminal. End of story.

Then again, where would we get our FARK material?

You should not be allowed to sue anyone for something that happened in the commission of a crime.

/except for the police...

I bet he looks like the guy from Hannibal.

"What do you do when you're stuck in a chair?
Finding it hard to go up and down stairs
What do you think of the one you call god?
Isn't his absence slightly odd?
Maybe he's forgotten you"

Bullet to the back of the head. Chinese exectuion style.

Not this idiot, but his lawyer.

All lawyers in New York forced to watch, too...while they grasp heir teensy weenies.

/time to scale down the national debt.

ZurkisPhreek:
Three seconds off from a simu-post...

/great minds think alike

Disgruntled Goat: Just dropping by to remind everyone that either the "Dumbass" or "Asinine" tag would have been perfectly appropriate for this submission.

There is no reason for the "Fail" tag to exist.

...and still no "Teacher Sex" tag.

something

I love the fail tag. It's a bit fugly, but maybe that's appropriate.

Amtrak "should have known that persons trespassed" in the South Station area where Hopkins was found, he and his parents contend in court papers.

The family claims that Amtrak should have monitored the area, cut off the electricity going to the overhead wires, and even parked its trains somewhere else when they weren't in use.



The fail started at conception.

Picklehead: Amtrak "should have known that persons trespassed" in the South Station area where Hopkins was found, he and his parents contend in court papers.

The family claims that Amtrak should have monitored the area, cut off the electricity going to the overhead wires, and even parked its trains somewhere else when they weren't in use.



The fail started at conception.

The Inaccurate Conception?

From what I got from the article,he was an architect who got blinding drunk,tried to open a train so he could get back home around 2 am,and when that failed climbed on top where he "met" the 27,000 volts.

So at 25,he's burned,with an amputated leg...unemployable. Unless he scaled a fence to get to that train...he might have a chance in court from a sympathetic jury.

Drunk,stupid,but not criminal.

asshat family

Why was a parked train under a powered line? Enlighten me, in Montreal the metro tracks are powered on and off as the train goes by. Don't they turn off power to the lines when the train's parked?

Mmm, everyone seems to be a bit holier than thou here. I've done a lot dumber stuff when I was completely sloshed than just climbing on top of a train. I know you have too.

Becoming completely disfigured seems a bit harsh for punishment.

I'm not saying they should sue, but you WOULD think Amtrak would cut the power supply when the trains aren't in use.

Quantum Apostrophe: Why was a parked train under a powered line? Enlighten me, in Montreal the metro tracks are powered on and off as the train goes by. Don't they turn off power to the lines when the train's parked?

because it's hard to switch off power to hundreds of miles of tracks as opposed to the light switch you guys turn off for your quarter mile of tracks.

/kidding kidding
//good question and the article doesn't appear to state whether the train was in a depot or yard or at a station, I'm sure that one or the other may or may not turn off power, but then again I have no clue.

Quantum Apostrophe: Why was a parked train under a powered line? Enlighten me, in Montreal the metro tracks are powered on and off as the train goes by. Don't they turn off power to the lines when the train's parked?

No railroad anywhere powers off out of use tracks. And if it was sitting there parked with the pans up on the locomotive, it wasn't being parked long anyway.

The reason why you can see people working on the third rail in Montreal after a train passes is because the voltage is low. 750V DC doesn't push through much. 25 - 27kv, that WILL.

And, in Boston, the idiot got between the wire and the train body, which is a return path on most electric trains.

It's not the volts that get you, it's the amps!