This is un-fucking-believable.

This officer is an embarrassment to emergency responders everywhere. And her attorney is worse.

Let's see if I understand his argument - Sgt. Eichorn had no way of expecting that the floor could be wet when responding to a drowning?

Seriously, WTF? I guess the family should have stopped CPR to clean up before calling 911 to make sure someone idiot who wouldn't expect to find water on the floor at a drowning call didn't slip?

This is happening in my county. Please, Dear Lord, let me get picked for the jury......

Can the Court order a flogging for the Plaintiff and her lowlife ambulance chasing lawyer as part of an order dismissing the suit?

Matt

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Well according to to the lawyer, the family failed the moment the accident happened. As if the family hasn't lost enough or isn't hit hard enough. Secondly, she's an emergency responder, her job carries a certain amount of risk. What is she doing in such a profession if she isn't going to accept that amount of risk and the consequences that follow? A victim, bah, what a farce.

No flogging but there are penalties in federal court for instituting a frivolous proceeding. Some states too.

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Edward Gibbon

Goodness...isn't there a clause in the employment contract of emergency workers that bar them from making claims of this nature against the people they rescue?

Perhaps emergency services never anticipated one of their officers would behave like this. I just assumed there was a code of duty that would cover the risks associated with the service.

Tethys

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I know someone who is an officer with that department - they are very embarrassed by this lawsuit.

Matt

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Well, if it helps, please tell them they should not be.

The only one who ought to be very embarrassed is Sgt. Andrea Eichhorn.

I think most people would be like me, and would feel sympathy for her fellow officers...you can tell them that the shame is on her only.

Tethys

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And with that...good night one and all from Sydney.

Tethys

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I hope this woman is ostracized by her peers and family. She suffered an on-the-job injury and was compensated by her employer so to sue these grieving people makes me wonder if she's even psychologically fit to be on the force or even in the human race!

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"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

This is the most morally justifiable lawsuit since the time I sued my mother for passing me the genes that caused my wisdom teeth to be impacted.

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Nice!

I need to do that! Especially since I'm headed to the dentist for a broken tooth in a little while. I know she's been holding out on me!


Damn, I wonder how much money I could get from the fat patients who caused me to hurt my back by lifting them. Or maybe the various car wreck patients where I cut myself on broken glass (as long as I can squeeze out some blood, it counts as a cut, right?). Hell, I was responding to a call when I stepped on a curb and severely sprained my ankle (1 surgery so far, I'm sure there will be more). I want compensation!

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Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

Dude, you've stumbled onto a goldmine!

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"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

-Thomas Jefferson

I just don't understand why severely injured people want to hurt us so bad! Misery loves company, I guess...

You and me both, my brother medic.

Lacerations, sprains, strains, an intern shocked me once.

Where's my check at?

Matt

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Well, I've never been shocked. I guess you get more.

How about dirty needlesticks? Those have got to be worth their weight in diamonds!!!

And, there were the stitches in my chin, that one time.

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When they come a wull staun ma groon
Staun ma groon al nae be afraid
Thoughts awe hame tak awa ma fear
Sweat an bluid hide ma veil awe tears

this is why wom....ahh nevermind.











I kid, I kid.

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We are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thoughts. They are not worthy of those in the service of country.