Reading from news:rec.food.cooking,
Dave Smith > posted:

> An American attorney had just finished a guest lecture at a law school
> in Italy when an Italian lawyer approached him and asked, "Is it true
> that a person can fall down on a sidewalk in your county and then sue
> the landowners for lots of money?"
>
> Told that it was true, the lawyer turned to his partner and started
> speaking rapidly in Italian. When they stopped, the American attorney
> asked if they wanted to go to America to practice law.
>
> "No, no," one replied. "We want to go to America and fall down on
> sidewalks."

When I was a kid, my dad was telling me about how people could trespass on
your property, then get hurt and sue you. I thought that was nuts. I
asked him if that was true even if you had "no trespassing" signs all over
the place, all kinds of fences, and everything. He said that they could
still sue. It's crazy.

I have no business being in anybody's yard, as I see it, except my own,
unless I'm invited. So I can't see how some stranger thinks he's within
his rights to sue me for getting hurt on my property when he's not
invited.

I remember hearing about a woman caught on camera at Wal-Mart. First she
got a bottle of shampoo and squirted it all over the floor. Then she
carefully laid down in the shampoo and started moaning and hollering like
she'd fallen down in it. So go figure. Personally I don't want to injure
myself just to get some money...even though I did just that by toxifying
my body working in a chemically-toxic dishwashing area where the boss
wouldn't pay to have the vent fixed to suck out all the chlorine fumes.
Only thing is, I injured myself for wages, not to sue someone else for a
lump sum.

Damaeus