- I would be lying if I told you this wasn’t my lawyer. Found at www.arkansastonight.com.
If you have a lot of time on your hands, suing can be a great way to raise funds without looking like a cheap chump. I mean, all it takes is a little imagination to get a case on your hands. A word of warning, don’t sue McDonald’s because you spilled coffee on yourself or you’re obese. It has been done before, and it will only bore the judge, and any potential lawyers looking for a quick buck.
Oh, don’t be fooled. Those crazy lawyers will suck the money right out of you, but here’s the best part: they can only do so if you win a case; once you win, you and the lawyer split the profits much like a lotto pool. Since you really can’t win a case without them, lawyers are a necessary evil. They’re like taxes, or mother-in-laws, in that sense. However, if you do get a lawyer to represent your case, you know you have a shot of winning. Remember, the only reason a lawyer will get involved is if they think they can win; otherwise they won’t receive any payment and will be working for free. The laws vary state-to-state, but in the case of suing, this is a general rule among lawyers.
Ok, so, what are you going to sue for? If something honestly drastic happened to you, I doubt you would be reading this site right now; you’d be too busy preparing a case. For the people who are reading, though, you will probably either have to think back to an event that you could consider suing for, or create an event that provides the opportunity for you to sue. You can pretty much sue for anything, like I said before, just use your imagination. Some woman dropped a 6-pack of beer on her foot and, although she didn’t break anything, “it hurt”. She won the case.
You don’t neccessarily have to sue for money, if that is not important to you. I know it is the basic topic of this blog, but if you are really big on apologies, you could do like this guy did, and sue for just that. He’s sueing Dreamworks Pictures because the kung-fu panda character in the movie Kung-Fu Panda has green eyes. Which apparently give off the feeling of evil. I’m not knocking Chinese culture, but I’m not sure that is what this is all about. First of all, all the guy wants is an apology (which I think Dreamworks should give him to get him off their back), and he carries a stuffed panda around with him all the time. I’m confused if the guy is either really into pandas, a wack-job, or a five-year-old.
So, that’s basically all. Set yourself up in precarious situations, and, if you are lucky, something will fall on you. In some cases, although you are slightly more likely to lose, you can actually do something bad and sue someone else for mental anguish, which is what this gal did when she went to a haunted house at Universal Orlando (the fourth story down).
Apparently it was too scary. I’m not joking. That’s what she said. If you don’t believe me, read that story.
As a final word, I’m planning on a lawsuit against all my readers for not telling all their friends about my blog. It’s really starting to give me some major mental anguish.
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