Some people really need to go on a de-sensitivity course at the least, or at most to see a good psychiatrist!
A man, is suing a New Jersey Wal-Mart for $1 million because he claims he was traumatised by a public address announcement directed at black shoppers.
Donnell Battie claims that the intercom system at the Wal-Mart on the Black Horse Pike in Washington Township was hijacked and someone announced, ‘Attention, Wal-Mart customers. All black people must leave the store.’
In his lawsuit, Battie says that Wal-Mart was negligent, careless, reckless and showed deliberate indifference in not controlling access to the P.A system.
Even though a manager at the superstore quickly apologised for the remark, the police arrived and a 16-year-old boy was arrested on harassment and bias intimidation charges.
Since that date, Battie alleges that the announcement caused him to suffer depression, anxiety, anger, loss of sleep, loss of appetite, paranoia and to suffer from anti-social tendencies.
If such a trivial thing results on all these, then Battie could be really batty.
A lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed against South Coast Medical Center in Laguna Beach by a man who claimed he suffered “excruciating pain and trauma” when a worker tripped on a hose, yanking a catheter from his penis was reversed by an appellate panel.
Quadriplegic, Gregory Harry, who was being treated at the medical center in June 2009, relied on catheters to urinate because of his paralysis. A custodial worker tripped over a hose connected to the catheter in Harry’s hospital room.
Harry had to summon a nurse after the accident caused him to pass blood and tissue, according to the ruling from the three-judge panel of the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
The nurse gave him pain medication and made several unsuccessful attempts to reinsert the catheter, according to the ruling. Ultimately, the nurse summoned a urologist, who was able to insert a new catheter.
Harry’s negligence lawsuit alleges he suffered “excruciating pain and trauma, permanent injury and loss of functionality,” and that the mishap worsened his problems with incontinence.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Franz Miller granted a motion for summary judgment filed by the medical center’s attorneys, who cited experts who said the incident did not fall below the standard of care.
The appellate justices cited the difference of opinions from various experts as a reason the case should not be dismissed.
Thanks to a strange justice system in Japan, a man in his 40s has taken a famous porn actress (star of such classics as Big T*ts Zombie), Sola Aoi to court in Tokyo … for refusing to follow him back on Twitter despite repeated requests.
Sola Aoi (a stage name; her real name is unknown) is a Japanese AV idol, nude model, and media personality. In addition to being a multiple award winning actress in the AV field, she has also attained mainstream media recognition.
Court records have shown that the man has allegedly asked multiple times, via multiple accounts, for her to follow him back; but the 28 year old actress continued to ignore the repetition of his 140-character advances.
The man has filed a public plea for her account to be deleted.
“I am a fan of yours; please follow me,” “Please consider following,” “How’s work? Your English is getting better. Please follow me.” Three of his tweets read.
The court has not yet decided on whether to hear the case or not.
A landlord is suing former tenants who fled the New Jersey home in the middle of the night after only one week, claiming the residence is haunted.
Richard Lopez, an orthodontist and landlord, filed a state Superior Court lawsuit against Josue Chinchilla and Michele Callan, who left the Toms River home March 10 after living there a week with Callan’s teenage daughter and 6-year-old son.
Lopez’s lawsuit alleges that the couple diminished his ability to rent or sell the house when they told the Asbury Park Press about their experiences in the home.
The couple said doors would creak and slam in unoccupied parts of the house and clothing and other items would be found in places other than where they were left.
They said they finally fled the home after Chinchilla felt an invisible hand on his arm and Callan saw a dark apparition in their bedroom.
Lopez is seeking $15,000 in damages.
Chinchilla and Callan previously filed a lawsuit against Lopez, alleging the landlord initially agreed to return their $2,250 security deposit and let them out of their one-year lease before changing his mind.
An Australian woman was injured while having sex in her hotel room during a work trip. Now she is entitled to compensation for the injury.
In the Federal Court, Justice John Nicholas ruled that the woman was injured during her “course of employment”.
The woman’s barrister argued that sex was an “ordinary incident of life” in a hotel room, much like showering and sleeping.
The Judge ruled that “if the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room she would be entitled to compensation” and the fact that the woman was engaged in sexual activity rather than some other lawful recreational activity while in her hotel room does not lead to any different result.
In a case eerily similar to the supposedly true ‘Amityville Horror’, a New Jersey couple said that paranormal activity caused them to flee their rental home. They are now suing their landlord.
Michele Callan and her fiance, Josue Chinchilla, moved into the home in Toms River, N.J., with Callan’s two children on March 1 and were immediately spooked.
“Three taps on the TV, taps on the shoulder…” Chinchilla told ABC News.
At first they chalked it up to the adjustment period of moving into a new home.
But things only got spookier, they said.
Doors opened and closed. The family even claimed they recorded strange voices whispering, “Let it burn.”
The new tenants said that between the menacing voices, flickering lights and clothes mysteriously flying from their closets, they couldn’t take it anymore. They fled the three-bedroom home and checked into a hotel, where they said they have been living since March 13.
Callan and Chinchilla filed suit last week in New Jersey Superior Court, seeking the return of their $2,250 security deposit from their landlord, Richard Lopez.
Lopez filed a counter-suit claiming the couple is using alleged paranormal activity as a way to break their lease.
“Frankly, there is something else going on,” David Semanchik, who is Lopez’s lawyer, told the Asbury Park Press. “She is a single mom, she has this fiancé living with her. I think she is in over her head and she can’t afford the rent.”
The couple said that isn’t the case, but ultimately a judge will have the final word on whether the family will be able to escape their alleged nightmare on Lowell Avenue.
