# Drunk guy loses leg. Sues. **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 19, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351 "2009-02-19T21:32:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LayzieJR4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/layziejr4/32/5096_2.png) [@LayzieJR4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LayzieJR4)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/1 "2009-02-19T21:32:11Z")
[http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck\_daddy/post/Drunk-hockey-fan-down-a-leg-up-2-33-million-fr;\_ylt=AnZHlgKg3gvEae6Pnw5DcDZ7vLYF?urn=nhl,142601](http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Drunk-hockey-fan-down-a-leg-up-2-33-million-fr;_ylt=AnZHlgKg3gvEae6Pnw5DcDZ7vLYF?urn=nhl,142601) …really? Cliffs: Drunk guy falls in path of subway train Train runs over guys leg Guy sues for $2.33 Million and wins ---
**Author:** ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/2 "2009-02-19T21:33:41Z")
wasn’t there a story in the news recently too for a widow that sued a cigarette company for her husband’s death because he died of smoking related causes? ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/3 "2009-02-19T21:34:07Z")
just heard about this…what a tragedy. For society. ---
**Author:** ![LayzieJR4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/layziejr4/32/5096_2.png) [@LayzieJR4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LayzieJR4)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/4 "2009-02-19T21:43:26Z")
> [@90NA300ZX](#): > > wasn’t there a story in the news recently too for a widow that sued a cigarette company for her husband’s death because he died of smoking related causes? Honestly that wouldn’t suprise me. Always thought that line in liar liar about the secretaries friend being sued when a burglar fell onto a knife was a joke. Now i realize it’s not out of the question. ---
**Author:** ![maverick27](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/maverick27/32/4946_2.png) [@maverick27](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/maverick27)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/5 "2009-02-19T22:06:59Z")
read this in the paper today…i honestly cannot believe what we are coming to… ---
**Author:** ![BillysRevenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@BillysRevenge](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BillysRevenge)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 10:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/6 "2009-02-19T22:31:01Z")
We need a common sense law. Where if a person yields common sense they get nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Karter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/7 "2009-02-19T22:38:57Z")
Im going to sue if people dont start responding to me trying to buy parts. ---
**Author:** ![khoveraki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/khoveraki/32/5131_2.png) [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/8 "2009-02-19T23:37:22Z")
Have fences in the way? or something? C’mon have you guys ever been in a subway, 50% of people are drunk. ---
**Author:** ![Freek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/freek/32/7357_2.png) [@Freek](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Freek)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/9 "2009-02-19T23:56:13Z")
the only people that may be liable would be the bar he was drinking at for not cutting him off ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/10 "2009-02-20T00:13:46Z")
> [@khoveraki](#): > > Have fences in the way? or something? C’mon have you guys ever been in a subway, 50% of people are drunk. Take a cab, oh no he has to go near the road! This is absurd, guy doesn’t deserve a dime. ---
**Author:** ![khoveraki](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/khoveraki/32/5131_2.png) [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/11 "2009-02-20T01:25:06Z")
> [@MPD47](#): > > Take a cab, oh no he has to go near the road! This is absurd, guy doesn’t deserve a dime. I’m going to get you black out drunk and throw you in traffic. ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/12 "2009-02-20T01:34:33Z")
I don’t see anything about this guy being pushed? ---
**Author:** ![n20junkie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n20junkie/32/7396_2.png) [@n20junkie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n20junkie)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/13 "2009-02-20T03:24:36Z")
The jury knows that the its not the trains fault. But the fuckin bleeding hearts say that “they have the money, and he needs it” regardless of actual fault. Gotta love civil cases, you can be totally in the right, and still lose millions cause they feel bad for him. ---
**Author:** ![fourseasonsandles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/90ced4/32.png) [@fourseasonsandles](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fourseasonsandles)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/14 "2009-02-20T06:08:08Z")
I can understand the possibly winning if this was a car accident and the guy was in the road. Just because something is in the way doesn’t give you the right to hit hit. But the fact that this is a subway and you’re not supposed to be on the tracks is BS to me. I would have put him majority liable if it was me. Im going to walk out on the tracks behind my house and then sue. I could use the money. ---
**Author:** ![n20junkie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/n20junkie/32/7396_2.png) [@n20junkie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/n20junkie)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/15 "2009-02-20T07:08:37Z")
> [@fourseasonsandles](#): > > I can understand the possibly winning if this was a car accident and the guy was in the road. Just because something is in the way doesn’t give you the right to hit hit. But the fact that this is a subway and you’re not supposed to be on the tracks is BS to me. > > I would have put him majority liable if it was me. Im going to walk out on the tracks behind my house and then sue. I could use the money. I would say he is 100 percent liable. No majority BS, he wasn’t supposed to be there, he got hit, he gets to live with no leg. If your gonna be stupid, you better be tough. ---
**Author:** ![dubbin91](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dubbin91](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dubbin91)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/16 "2009-02-20T07:46:27Z")
I’m in for a common sense law…hell that should be part of reproducing as well. The jurors are retarded as well as the judge and lawyers in the case. Really how is a train going 50 mph suppose to avoid this guy? Not like a car when it can swerve out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/17 "2009-02-20T08:03:48Z")
Another case of juries being made up of 12 people too stupid to get out of jury duty. ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/18 "2009-02-20T08:06:44Z")
**because the subway driver had time to stop the train but did not. Smiley added that Dibble’s drunkenness did not excuse the driver, who said in a court deposition that he mistook Dibble for an inert object.** And THAT is why he won ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/19 "2009-02-20T08:14:13Z")
^ So now every time they see a box on the tracks they’ll be pulling the emergency stop and 20+ passengers will sue because they fell over and scraped their knee. ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2009, 8:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351/20 "2009-02-20T08:44:00Z")
Oh, and not to mention that in a civil case is about the level of the Burden of Proof. In a criminal case it is “proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt”. With a civil case it is based upon the preponderance of the evidence, this means that the entire jury didn’t have to agree with them. I believe in NYS it is %60, but I haven’t taken law classes in some time. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/drunk-guy-loses-leg-sues/63351.md?page=2)