From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >Lenona  wrote:   
      
   >>You'd think security would have been a LOT tighter...   
      
   >>But where was the dad?   
      
   >The first question is fair; I assume the second is not serious.   
      
   >Don't know what remedies for this sort of thing are like in France,   
   >but in the US, if I'm on the jury, I'm just adding a zero to whatever   
   >the plaintiff is demanding. (That's in a suit against the hospital,   
   >obviously. Against the parents of the kids ... well, maybe that, too.   
   >But the main malfeasor is the hospital.)   
      
   How exactly does that work? Take the other thread in which the boy died   
   accidentally by crashibg his e-bike. Now, clearly the parents might have   
   been partially at fault, not teaching the boy the responsibility of   
   operating a motorized vehicle.   
      
   But the parents are suing the homeowner who erected the wire the boy got   
   caught on, a wire that was not blocking the pavement. And they are doing   
   it selflessly so no one else ever again erects a hazard in a place that   
   one is not allowed to drive.   
      
   The boy's estate has a claim against the parents. How do the parents,   
   in turn, get to represent and benefit from the estate, should it prevail   
   in court? Why the hell should they receive any monies, or should what   
   they receive be substantially reduced by the part of the injury that's   
   their failure?   
      
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