I am in the camp that says the boy is an idiot and brought it upon himself, but on the other hand. $200,000 is not that much for hitting a person with a train. If they didn't start stopping until after they hit him there is a case for negligence even if him being an idiot was the cause. Honestly it would probably be better to just pay the kid 200k rather than spend 50k on lawyers just to end up settling for 100k. Plus it gets it out of the news faster and looks better from a pr perspective. As they are not fighting a boy who lost his legs over 200k when they are worth 45 billion.
But I could also see an issue of if you are handing out money to morons like this, some people could start risking their lives so they can have a similar law suit and that could create all kinds of problems.
I am awesome and so are you.
Lenny gone but not forgotten.
- 12/10/2015