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2005-03-16 Home Front: Politix

St. Pancake's Family Sues Caterpillar Too

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Posted by mojo 2005-03-16 11:53|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The only thing that St. Pancake should be getting is a Darwin award.

Posted by radrh8r 2005-03-16 12:29:52 PM|| 2005-03-16 12:29:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting legal theory.
Maybe the Senate's bill to shield gun manufacturers from liabilty for the misuse of their products should also include tractor manufacturers. ;)

Posted by GK 2005-03-16 12:46:43 PM|| 2005-03-16 12:46:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yep, todays' the day!

Posted by Bodyguard 2005-03-16 1:01:46 PM|| 2005-03-16 1:01:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The D9 was used in the manner it was intended. It is a military dozer. That Corrie got in the way is not nor should not even be an issue. She was, after all, in a war zone aiding the enemies of civilization.

Posted by badanov 2005-03-16 1:03:48 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-03-16 1:03:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 GK
as you say an interesting legal theory; it asserts that the company, while designing a machine with the capacity to, among other things, topple houses, should have made this machine so that it couldn't topple houses which were occupied or which terrorist sympathizers would defend

--- sadly, there may actually be juries that would buy this

Posted by mhw 2005-03-16 2:10:46 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:10:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I see another litigation inspired product warning sticker: Warning. Laying down in front of this bulldozer can cause an acute case of pancakitis.

Posted by ed 2005-03-16 2:15:43 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:15:43 PM|| Front Page Top

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-03-16 2:15:54 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:15:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 They have np legal leg to stand on. It' like suing Mac becuase a Semi ran over someone. Unless the Judge is a full-fledge Koolaid drinker he will have to throw the suit out. The lawyer that filed this should be disbared and deported to Canada.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-03-16 2:27:23 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:27:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 As part of the settlement, Caterpillar should require Corrie's parents to work in the hospital taking care of the wounded children from Belsan school until the last one's discharged. I'm sure Caterpillar will spring for the tickets.

Posted by Old Patriot 2005-03-16 2:53:39 PM|| [http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-03-16 2:53:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 This is just an attempt to grease the skids for future legal manuvering.

HA! Get it? I'm killing me!

If there was a test to become parents these two dipshits would have failed miserably. They should be ashamed of themselves. They killed their own daughter. . . .

Posted by Doc8404 2005-03-16 3:57:07 PM|| 2005-03-16 3:57:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Old Patriot you do have a good idea. Education is needed in this sad situation. The death of a child is a hard one to take but it's not an excuse for being stupid in the pursuit of hurting others who WERE NOT THE CAUSE of the loss. Why not sue the parents for failing to exercise reasonable care in raising their child to understand that legal means of activism are far more effective and safer than nutty stunts in somebody else's country involving heavy equipment? CAT's defense counsel in the civil action doesn't have much work to do defending this one. What jury is going to keep from laughing at this bs after they pay due respect to the fact that the parents have lost their child? I'd make it a point to counter against the family members and see the claims through to the end just to give them the civics lesson they obviously never received in junior high. Tell me, where do these people come from? Are they bred on some floppy brain puppy mill in the midwest or what? Ya play pure as the wind driven snow activist with heavy equipment and what do you expect to happen?

Posted by Tkat 2005-03-16 4:10:47 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:10:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Marin.

'Nuff said...

Posted by mojo 2005-03-16 4:17:59 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:17:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court here, alleges that Caterpillar violated international and state law by providing specially designed bulldozers to Israeli Defense Forces, knowing the machines would be used to demolish homes and endanger people.

And flatten ninconpoops...

Flattened Fauna

Posted by BigEd 2005-03-16 4:35:15 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:35:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Everybody be honest:

Who wants a nice Catepillar for their Birthday?

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-16 7:51:09 PM|| 2005-03-16 7:51:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey! I had my b-day yesterday! Can I stil get it? That would be sooo flatsome!;-)

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-03-16 7:55:55 PM|| 2005-03-16 7:55:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Happy belated b-day, Sobiesky.

☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☺

(a sorta caterpillar...)

Posted by Seafarious 2005-03-16 8:04:54 PM|| 2005-03-16 8:04:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 D9s don't kill people, people running under D9s kill people (themselves).

Posted by H8_UBL 2005-03-16 9:06:00 PM|| 2005-03-16 9:06:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 hopefully these assholes will have to pay all court costs after getting laughed out of the courtroom

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-16 9:26:52 PM|| 2005-03-16 9:26:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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