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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2020810" data-attributes="member: 7280">As I've replied ad nauseum on other boards this is a reasonable case thanks to common law views of unintended and unforseeable consequences (toy manufacturers, etc) that was pretty much taken advantage of by the woman in question. You can't take away her right to take the case to court without setting a precedent and you can't arbitrarily dismiss her claim of damages just because she asked for punitive rewards as well - because it would also set up a precedent that other people would take advantage of. Since the parents already offered to pay for medical costs I'd say they won this case even though they lost, and the social costs the lady is going to suffer from alienating the entire country that remembers her name and this case is going to serve as the "justice" in this case. Basically she tried to schmooze the system, the system really DID reject her as much as it was able, everything works fine, and the hubbaballoo about the case is really wonky. I've lived in urban neighborhoods where anyone knocking on your doors EVER would mean I'd be looking for a gun or wondering which one of my neighbors had a meth lab, and I've lived in rural areas where the presence of any callers would be strange beyond keening simply because you had acres of tree line and no neighbors for a reason.Personally I'd just start harrassing her like the public figure she's now placed herself in the position of being is allowed to be. I'd engage in satire and speculation about her in the local papers, put her picture with the court costs up in all the private businesses within 50 miles as "news", and see what else I'm legally allowed to do to drive her out of town. There's got to be a vast allowance there, they do it with sex offenders all the time. Just treat her like a rapist and make her move to somewhere where her suspicious nature is more justifiable by the community.Or hell, maybe rural Colorado is a scary place and I just don't have a clue. It might be. I've watched Southpark, Colorado might be JUST like that. Anal probes and cow mutilations, I'd have fits for late visitors too.</blockquote>

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