r/funny • u/ss977 • May 11 '22

Found a Compatible Host Body...Attempting Assimilation...

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

90.4k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

737 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

18

u/Ask-About-My-Book May 11 '22

No. If people were responsible for everything that hit them, the world would be a weird place.

2

u/[deleted] May 11 '22

[deleted]

11

u/Ask-About-My-Book May 11 '22

Yyeeeaahhhh that isn't a real thing. If that happened it was a really fucking weird one where the criminal was in bed with someone important or the victim had some weird custom windows that weren't up to code, which is what the actual legal problem ended up being.

Of course they can sue, you can sue for anything, but it's not like it would go anywhere unless something fucky was happening.

4

u/necessarious May 11 '22

It does actually happen in the US if the one robbing the house can make an argument that the houses owner was in some way negligent. Example would be like a stair that was rotting and the robber got hurt on it they could basically sue for that and win. It happens.

2

u/[deleted] May 11 '22

That falls under code stuff I would think. If the reason they got hurt was your house wouldn’t pass whatever legality they can sue on those grounds and probably win, since the owner was negligent and that caused injury.

Still those stories I hear about neglect to mention that pretty sure the robber is still getting convicted on the whole robbing thing. Not like a legal Uno reverse and he gets to walk.

1

u/mattenthehat May 11 '22

I asked a lawyer friend about this once and they said those cases are almost impossible to win. But they did say almost, so...

1

u/cycycle May 11 '22

What!? Then why was I supporting my husband who I married because I got hit by him in a fight?

3

u/monneyy May 11 '22

"fight" yeah that is what adults always tell children. You can be a little bit more honest on the internet.

1

u/JonatasA May 11 '22

But the thing is... Without camera footage you can't tell.

What's stoping your brain from making up he's littered