You can't take that Mini-Me motherfarker anywhere.

The president of the shrimp supplier only had a brief comment:
"Lt.Dan! You got magic legs!"

Wait wait wait wait...

They are responsible for the malpractice from a surgery related to his injury??!? Uhhh... what about the people ACTUALLY responsible for the malpractice?

/weeps openly
/.

prawn3d

fark is farked?

No chance he wins. Maybe a jury will give him money, but the state appellate courts will overturn.

2 words: proximate cause.

nm it was just for a sec

they should bury him in cocktail sauce

Funny, this was almost exactly one of the problems from my Fall 2004 torts exam. Same restaurant and everything.

not entirely true (that one would not toss if asked not to). my first job after college was as a hibachi chef, and you could usually gauge whether someone would catch the shrimp or broccoli by their demeanor. sometimes, even if they shook their head no, i would still toss it anyway: the surprise of actually catching it delighted them and the whole table enough to make it worthwhile. it is hard to believe he died from an injury which just involved turning the neck, although clearly medicine is not my field so that my opinion may be ignorant.

Benihana is so freaking mediocre it hurts. America's food choices kill me.

Wow, I heard about this a while ago, and I can't believe it made it all the way to our beloved FARK.

I grew up minutes away from this particular Benihana, and had many a birthday dinner there.

This are good news. Triple happiness fun-world shrimp time! Neck-surgery smile team! Complications and happy-death thank you!

He has big forearms and had a Tarts exam at a restaurant! huhhhuuuhuhhuhhuh

/Channeling ButtHead
//Couldn't resist
///Knows what torts are, so don't bother explaining them
/.

Good thing I didn't mention the lethal airborne prawn.

/next up: the swordfish

Chiropractor? Maybe if he started by going to a real doctor, things might have been different. Tossing a one ounce shrimp is hardly a reckless thing to do.

I remember reading this on FARK at least 6 months ago on, then hearing it several days later on Boortz.

Read about this a while back, no way they should pay a dime.

A guy with a neck that bad should have probably been wearing a brace while out.

chiropractor was probably the cause.

Hmm...if we're talking about Benihana I think we need pics of the founder's daughter.

another thing i don't understand: the fun of the game is to catch the shrimp in your mouth without using your hands, but if you are too fragile to play, like Mr. Colaitis, then you might also try using your hands to catch the 'deadly' projectile coming wickedly your way.

/i knew a concert pianist in college who tripped and fell, and as a result mucked up his face because his hands were too valuable to mess up. i was amazed how he could suppress the instinct one has to put the hands out, which most of us develop when we are very very young.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury....
I'm just a caveman. I went out hunting one day, fell into a crevasse and frozen instantly. Years later I was thawed out by your scientists and later attended law school. And I know now as I knew then that if you have dinner at Benihanas and are struck by a flying shrimp that the establishment is responsible for any damages accrued by the subsequent physicans during surgery, malpractice insurance or no.

skinink: Shrimp: the tasty, Tasty, TASTY cockroaches of the sea.

Fixed that for ya.

From the Farchives:

Benihana chef kills a man with flying shrimp; apparently hadn't wowed them with the spinning egg trick

I had a nasty case of that Colaitis once... shot of penicilin cleared it right up...

Peaceman: Hmm...if we're talking about Benihana I think we need pics of the founder's daughter.

Thank you, my friend. Thank you.

/chicks w/ swords = teh hawt

I blame the fishing boat captain. He should have thrown that shrimp back.

Let me get this straight...

The guy ducked a thrown shrimp, and by ducking, he injured his neck badly enough to require surgery...5 months later? And then, the surgery cause a fever to occur...5 months after that?

Maybe I'm going out on a limb here, but...

I'm guessing that the shrimp probably wasn't "thrown." It may have slid off a spatula when the chef was flipping some stuff or something along those lines, but that's hardly throwing it.
I also doubt that the act of ducking jacked his neck that badly that it required surgery. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there was probably some kind of pre-existing condition.
And what about the fever that killed him? I assume it was caused by an infection, and I think it would be pretty rare to get an infection 5 months after the surgery was done. Usually if you get an infection from surgery, you get it before the wound heals.

So, seriously, are they leaving things out of the story or is the man's family just whoring him out for money?

jordan_lund: I had a nasty case of that Colaitis once... shot of penicilin cleared it right up...

I remember that. The warm smell of your Colaitis rose up through the air.

bigforearms
Funny, this was almost exactly one of the problems from my Fall 2004 torts exam. Same restaurant and everything

What's a tort? Isn't that something you cook in a toaster? They actually give exams on how to cook a tort in a toaster?

Maybe I'm thing of a tart, but then again, that's the waitress at the local diner. . . . I'm so confused, need drink but the Grey Goose guy died . . . now what?

Help!

Who ducks when faced with a flying shrimp? Either block it with your hand (preferrably with a "haaaa-ya!" scream) or just let the 2 oz thing hit you in the face.

But the skrimps didn't actually hit him... he 'injured' his neck by ducking to avoid it.

Why isn't the family suing the medical center instead because of the complications from the neck surgery?

Must have been one of those shoulder fired heat seeking shrimp.

He D-D-D-Ducked that hard? Must have some strong-ass neck muscles and Superman reflexes.

Bubba wanted for questioning...

josh2112: Why isn't the family suing the medical center instead because of the complications from the neck surgery?

Easy: Because a corporation that owns a chain of popular restaurants has more money than one medical center.

proteus_b: /i knew a concert pianist in college who tripped and fell, and as a result mucked up his face because his hands were too valuable to mess up. i was amazed how he could suppress the instinct one has to put the hands out, which most of us develop when we are very very young.


That sounds like someone yanking your chain who probably fell on his face after too much beer. You're hands aren't that fragile, and when I started playing piano, they got a whole lot stronger and less prone to injury. The muscle that you use to push down keys also stops your fingers from being bent too far backwards.

insane_idoru

Absolutely. Miho was one of the most fun parts of Sin City to me.

By the way, did you get the handle from the William Gibson novel? Neat book, although nothing will compare to "Neuromancer" for me.

josh2112
But the skrimps didn't actually hit him... he 'injured' his neck by ducking to avoid it.

Skrimps, ducking . . . you guys are screwing with my mind?

Help!

ga362

What's a tort? Isn't that something you cook in a toaster? They actually give exams on how to cook a tort in a toaster?

If it's a surprise exam, would that make it a pop tort?

josh2112 From the Farchives:
Benihana chef kills a man with flying shrimp; apparently hadn't wowed them with the spinning egg trick

*golf clap for year old headline*

Went their with my ex a couple years ago for my bday. I wish that was our chef so he could have broke my ex's farkin neck with a shrimp.

/bitter?
//yes!

Hender

Love it!

ga362: What's a tort? Isn't that something you cook in a toaster? They actually give exams on how to cook a tort in a toaster?

A tort is a civil law suit over damages caused by another party. Unlike a criminal case where a law was broken and is being prosecuted by the state.

Peaceman

My favorite line from the movie would have to be :
Deadly little Miho, you won't feel a thing unless she wants you to... she flips the shrimp... he feels it

105 fever = infection from the surgery.
Remember Bush wants to take away your ability to sue a doctor for malpractice....

Sounds like he's suing the wrong folks. Looks like the neurosurgeon farked up.