Sue me Me, Sue You Blues
by worcesterite - January 31, 2009 8:30pm
Interesting yet painfully disturbing story yesterday. It seems that the initial “thank God I’m alive!”, wonderment has now passed for a large group of the passengers on the plane that miraculously did not disintegrate into the Hudson River.
Yes, believe it or not (let me guess, you believe it), there is a new emotion rising out of the murky depths of near tragedy…good old fashioned greed. A lawsuit will be filed by a group of passengers on the grounds that they are now permanently shaken by the whole ordeal. So shaken that the overwhelming sense of relief that they collectively shared on the cold wing of that plane has now transformed into overwhelming resentment that they were put in the position of a crash landing in the first place.
So, even with a $5,000 property replacement check for each passenger (that’s a whole lot of pants and underwear), some of these folks are now fishing in the river for the BIG ONE! Was the pilot drunk? No. Was the airplane in disrepair? Doesn’t seem so. Was the control tower in error in some way? No, again. Was there ANY human error on the part of the airline? Not as such.
So, in 2009, after tens of thousands of years of evolution, maturation and innovation, our society has developed into one that can do the seemingly impossible.
We can now sue geese.