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Kid that flew plane into building in Florida

steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
When you think you've heard it all. The parents of this little idiot are sueing the manufacturer of his acne medicene for 70 million dollars because they noticed he'd acted differently soon after he used it. I think the owners of the building ought to sue the parents for there obvious lack of parenting ability that caused damage to their building.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Agreed! If folks stop acting like victims, there will be no more victims.

    "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -Plato

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  • Rob3448Rob3448 Member Posts: 171 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    People need to accept that something bad happened and not try to blame someone else. I think the parents are at fault more than anyone else. People do dumb things (i know i have done my fair share) we all need to be responsible for are actions.

    "I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."
    Mark Twain
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think the parents should be held criminally liable for continuing to feed their son the dope after they noticed the ill effects. I think the victims of the crash should be suing the parents.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • Free N TXFree N TX Member Posts: 165 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would be willing to bet my favorite gun that some sleeze ball lawyer saw big dollar signs when he saw the news report of a "troubled teen" flying a plane into the building. He probably broke the speed of sound getting to the parents to console them and let them know it had to be someone elses fault. After all no teenage boy has ever just gone nuts without it being the fault of someones product, either music or medicines must have been involved. And surely the parents had nothing to do with his bad behaviour.
    I say we get rid of all the lawyers and make America a much safer and sainer(sp?) place to live.

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    Edited by - Free N TX on 04/23/2002 23:08:56
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  • NateNate Member Posts: 168 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was he on Acutane(sp?), if so that is some strange stuff. I was on it in my mid teens. Dried my face out so bad that my lips would split open when I talked and if I touched my nose you would have seen a stream of blood gush out. Ended up taking Q-tips with vasilene on them and coating the inside of my nose every few hours.
    I never had the mental problems that some talk about, but the monthly blood tests to make sure it wasnt killing your liver were kind of a pain in the rear.
    If i had to do it all over again I would have never taken the stuff. Just was not worth all the side affects.
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  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes Nate it was Acutane. I can understand some physical side effects to medicene but I think mental problems and bad parenting are more likely the cause of his problems.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A few years back Prozac was accused of having murderous side effects. Now it's acutane causing suicides? Good grief. Sounds like a "twinkie defense" to me.

    -- Life NRA Member
    "If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If it gets to court wouldnt the owner of the plane, the building owner, and the company in that office have a good case against the parents? or are the parents of minors no longer held responsible for the kids actions.
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