jbaakko Wrote:A person in my profession would see the Mother of the driving being as guilty as the son. "Diana told Local 4 she let her son borrow the car." She's at fault for letting him drive on a suspended license, but then again its not her fault that he ran the gates...
Yes, I agree, she is at fault and has been punished to a degree greater than any court could impose.
2-8-2 Wrote:A lawsuit is almost inevitable these days, as if it's the railroad's fault for having tracks there in the first place.
It's an disturbing fact of life nowadays that many people won't accept responsibility for their own actions. The driver was
forced to accept the consequences of his actions, but that, unfortunately, also ended the lives of his four friends and altered countless other lives forever.
There is a case, ongoing here in southern Ontario, of a woman, a bookkeeper/accountant for a winery, being convicted of embezzling several million dollars from her employer. She blew most of the stolen cash at the casino. Despite being found guilty and sentenced, she is attempting to sue the casino for allowing her to gamble (and lose), claiming they "enabled" her gambling "
addiction".
Ridiculous as
that sounds, she is also suing her former employer, who, she avows, "didn't properly examine her work to detect anomalies in the figures", and thereby failed to put an end to her illegal activities. In other words, since you didn't catch me, it's your fault.
Surprisingly, to me at least, the courts threw the book at her on the charges, although nowadays "the book" doesn't have the heft of days gone by. The lawsuits, meanwhile, have yet to be heard. I'm almost tempted to sue
her for her attempts to waste the courts' time at my expense - why should crooks and lawyers be the only ones entitled to financial gain from the legal system?
As for the train accident, I see the more likely (and more likely winnable) lawsuit(s) to be against the mother of the driver for enabling her son (already demonstrably out-of-control) to be behind the wheel in the first place. And let's face it, folks, there's nothing like a few million to ease the loss of a loved one.
Wayne