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TubaMuffins · Mar 7, 2005, 04:18 PM

i think these guys are doing more harm than good personally

ThinkInsane · Mar 7, 2005, 04:46 PM

Utterly ridiculous. I try not to stereotype, but every time I read this kind of garbage, I start thinking that maybe it's time to start catapulting lawyers into the sun.

itistoday · Mar 7, 2005, 04:52 PM

Mmmm... the article says:

"We don't earn any money on the lawsuit. We want to help people," he said. "We are suing to get information."

malvolio · Mar 7, 2005, 09:55 PM

IMO, those guys are not nearly as bad as guys like this.

yukon · Mar 8, 2005, 01:44 AM

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sugar_coated · Mar 8, 2005, 07:26 AM

Is this thread is about bad lawyers and their exploitation of diseased people?

malvolio · Mar 8, 2005, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by sugar_coated:
Is this thread is about bad lawyers and their exploitation of diseased people?

Close. The original story was about a group of lawyers who want to sue various countries & organizations for not providing a warning about the SE Asian tsunami.

Apple Pro Underwear · Mar 8, 2005, 11:28 AM

Originally posted by malvolio:
Close. The original story was about a group of lawyers who want to sue various countries & organizations for not providing a warning about the SE Asian tsunami.

well the circumstances concerning the warning that was ignored is rather flagrant

if the warning was announced, thousands may have been saved

Garage81 · Mar 8, 2005, 11:44 AM

Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
Utterly ridiculous. I try not to stereotype, but every time I read this kind of garbage, I start thinking that maybe it's time to start catapulting lawyers into the sun.

wdlove · Mar 8, 2005, 02:30 PM

As usual it the money that they are after. Helping someone is only a side effect of there action.

t6hawk · Mar 8, 2005, 04:57 PM

Originally posted by malvolio:
Close. The original story was about a group of lawyers who want to sue various countries & organizations for not providing a warning about the SE Asian tsunami.

Sue countries? Under what jurisdiction? A US court has no jurisdiction over foreign countries. The UN may have some influence but ultimately unless there are lawsuits filed inside each and every country involved, the effort will be useless. Who the heck would you sue tho? I know in the US there is (i think) a separate agency that operates

And as for warning about the tsunami, didn't a lot of the areas that were devastated had no advanced warning system and likely couldn't afford one anyways? I think the news here said it was like $5 or $10 mill for one of those undersea sensors for tsunamis and that for the west coast of US there is a huge network of them and SE asia would need a network far larger than what the US has.

Psychonaut · Mar 8, 2005, 07:35 PM

Brilliant. Sue the tsunami-damaged countries during a time when they need all the money they can get.

dampeoples · Mar 8, 2005, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
Brilliant. Sue the tsunami-damaged countries during a time when they need all the money they can get.

It's not the countries that need the money, it's the lawyers!

malvolio · Mar 9, 2005, 01:33 AM

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
Brilliant. Sue the tsunami-damaged countries during a time when they need all the money they can get.

Apparently most legal analysts thought the suit had virtually no chance.

Apple Pro Underwear · Mar 9, 2005, 06:28 AM

Originally posted by Psychonaut:
Brilliant. Sue the tsunami-damaged countries during a time when they need all the money they can get.

actually you're right!

but they should offer an apology for not issuing the warnings any way they could

ThinkInsane · Mar 9, 2005, 10:08 AM

Originally posted by Apple Pro Underwear:
actually you're right!

but they should offer an apology for not issuing the warnings any way they could

The Tsunami warning station in Hawaii that monitors the Pacific Rim sat and watched in horror as they realized that the quake would more than likely generate a devastating tsunami. The reason they watched in horror is because they had no way of issuing a warning to the countries surrounding the Indian Ocean. There was absolutely no infrastructure in place to notify the countries that would be effected. Keep in mind these are the people that monitor the pacific. TLC did a program that featured this. The guys that work in that station did what they could, which isn't much, and that wasn't their fault, not by a long shot.

From what I read immediately following the disaster, no one was too interested in spending money for a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean because having one is such a freak occurrence. No one thought it would happen, so the countries involved never put a plan in place to notify and evacuate the effected areas. And yet somehow a bunch of lawyers are thinking that the US bears some responsibility in that. I guess it's our responsibility to install tsunami warning systems in all oceans, even the ones that don't boarder our shores. Of course we don't have a warning system in the Atlantic, but we damn well should have had one in the Indian Ocean! And in hindsight, I would have gladly had the US spend the money to do so if it would have saved all those lives, but it was something that no one thought would happen there.

Yep, into the sun with the attorneys.