Frivolous Lawsuits: Maybe the Baboons Will Countersue for Defamation
Lawsuit stole her baby!
A man and his pregnant fiancée are demanding $10 million from the Bronx Zoo after being stuck on a cable car for five hours above fang-baring, flesh-eating baboons.
“They didn’t know if they were going to live or die,” said lawyer Adam Shapiro, who filed the lawsuit yesterday.
Damien Foster and Nandi Taylor say they suffered “psychological trauma” and that Wednesday’s ordeal put the pregnancy at risk.
Three dozen people were stranded on the Skyfari cable-car ride until about 11 p.m. amid lightning.
You know as well as I do that the lawsuit most likely is, and the damage request definitely is, utterly ludicrous. Not every hiccup in life is a cause of action, not every mechanical failure is negligence. Not every “trauma” is particularly traumatic.
What you might not know is this: Baboons are (generally) vegetarians.
Are we still stuck up in the “$10 million air”?
P.S. For those who don’t get the intro, see here.
Filed under: Frivolous Lawsuits, New York City & State, Torts
After being stuck on a cable car for 5 hours I'd probably need a really strong sedative, and a psychiatrist. I have the really dumb combination of thinking "yeah, I can handle that", a fear of heights, and a built-in assumption that something that should be moving is "broken" if it stops. And I don't trust a "broken" cable to hold me up.
So, I get on (just for example) the cable ride thingie that spans the State Fair, and it's all going fine, until it stops. At which point, every neurosis I've got combines to start screaming "OMG, it's broken, we're gonna fall!!!!!"
But I've never even considered suing someone . . . .
Who needs baboons?