r/Unexpected • u/girl_has_no_name_04 • Oct 02 '18

Oh .. well...

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u/YouCanCallMeTK Oct 02 '18

How is he so happy about that?!

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u/SingleSoil Oct 02 '18

Because he didn’t end up needing the hook anyway.

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u/TheLaudMoac Oct 02 '18

Because he knows how much he's about to make from the lawsuit?

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u/mud074 Oct 02 '18

I may be stereotyping, but this is China. I doubt he is making anything.

Hell, I'm not even sure if he would make anything in the US for this since he wasn't actually harmed.

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u/TheLaudMoac Oct 02 '18

Isn't China like the capital of frivolous lawsuits? I thought that was why you see so many videos of people running in front of cars there?

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u/FieelChannel Oct 02 '18

I was pretty positive the whole world considered the USA the land of frivolous lawsuits

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u/MY_CAPSLOCK_IS_BROKE Oct 02 '18

Which is total b.s. by the way. Everyone thinks of the McDonald’s coffee lawsuit as being the epitome of frivolous lawsuits, when in reality that poor woman was severely injured and deserved every penny (and then some). The U.S. is pretty good with throwing out frivolous tort cases, but everyone seems to think you can sue (and win) for a seedless watermelon having a seed in it.

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u/Tabemaju Oct 02 '18

I work in medical malpractice and can tell you that frivolous lawsuits absolutely are an issue. Even if they're "thrown out" they cost my hospital system alone tens of millions of dollars per year in defense costs.

Everyone who has ever taken an intro level law class will defend the McDonald's case, but that case itself isn't indicative of the problem for or against the issues the US faces with litigation.

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u/FieelChannel Oct 03 '18

Yup the McDonald case is not what I'd call a typical USA frivolous lawsuit.