PUNY HUMANS! Can't hold your liquor!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Why I don't like litigiousness
So a couple years ago some guy gets super drunk, I'm talking unbelievably hammered and passes out in an empty lot. Someone notices him and calls 911 and the cops roll by and pick him up, they then take him to jail to sleep it off (this is 4 in the afternoon). Around 10 pm it is noticed that he isn't breathing and an ambulance is called, the man did not make it. The autopsy shows alcohol poisoning as the cause of death. Generally this is caused by a blood alcohol level up to and over 0.50 (0.08 is the most common driving limit). The man's daughter is now suing the police department. While things could obviously have turned out differently, I find it hard to be sympathetic when somebody drinks enough to die. It just seems to me that it's not the individual officers faults that this guy drank so much (FYI a 40 over fours hours will put an average sized guy at 0.60). Why doesn't she sue the liquor board that sold her dad the booze? What about the company that made the booze? Or the kids that bullied her dad as a child and drove him to drink? She could sue me, because I didn't stop her dad from drinking. In the end, if you do something stupid, and it comes back to hurt you, it's your own damn fault, and the one person the most responsible for this has already been punished; he died of alcohol poisoning.
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