by singwell-is off researching a lot on April 3rd, 2007

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A motorist who saw a pedestrian talking on a mobile phone step out into the road in front of him, slammed on his brakes and beeped his horn. He was fined for this. Was this fair?

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by agent1337 on April 3rd, 2007
this is deffinatly not fair, but unfortunatly this is how life works. half of the people in the world are below the average intelligance and they do stupid things. the motorist should have gotten off scott free but he was just unlucky. this reminds me of the case where a robber fell threw the victims roof and sued the victim for causing injury. he actualy won that
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- That sounds like a stupid lawsuit that one of my cousins was involved with. He owned a business & had 2 doberman pinchers guarding it at night & these 2 druggies broke & & the dogs attacked them & killed the one guy the other sued him & won for a million bux. So not fair but because his business didn't have BEWARE OF DOG signs posted was how that skum bucket won his case.
  
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by Leprechaun on May 18th, 2007
Stupid pedestrian of course it wasn't fair the motorist could do no more it, the pedestrian should have been careful, he shouldn't be talking on the phone whil crossing the streeet and he should have looked both ways.
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by OrsoChicago on April 3rd, 2007
While unfair, the fine was legal. Pedestrians have the right of way. And, the fact that the driver slammed on his brakes and presumably slid may indicate that according to law the drive was going too fast for conditions. Driving is serious business and it's time people began treating it as such.
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by agent1337 on April 3rd, 2007
this is deffinatly not fair, but unfortunatly this is how life works. half of the people in the world are below the average intelligance and they do stupid things. the motorist should have gotten off scott free but he was just unlucky. this reminds me of the case where a robber fell threw the victims roof and sued the victim for causing injury. he actualy won that
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