Bob Dougherty is an idiot.
Dude gets glued to a Home Depot crapper.
Who does he sue? The prankster who put the glue on the toilet seat?
No, no. He sues Home Depot, of course.
I really wish in these lawsuits, before they determine amounts, they would determine percentages of responsibility, and the winner has to collect all of the MOST responsible's amount before he can move onto the next most responsible.
In this case, the gluer's about 85% responsible, Home Depot is 10% responsible for not finding and cleaning up the situation, and Mr. Bob himself is 5% responsible for not looking before he sat down. So if the award is fifty thousand dollars, Mr. Bob has to collect $42,500 from the gluer before going after Home Depot's five thou.
posted by The Last American at 10:41:00 AM
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For what it's worth, the plaintiff's reasoning is that Home Depot ignored his shouts for help for quite some time, which may have exacerbated his injuries.
Fifteen minutes in the crapper doesn't seem like an inordinately long time.
Sometimes fifteen minutes is barely getting started.
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