Go Back to Sleep America, Your Government Has Everything Under Control

How about this? An 11 year old Californian girl was charged with a felony for throwing a rock at another kid who was harassing her with waterbaloons.

Charged with a felony! A FEL-ON-Y. Next they'll have the kids up on sexual harassment charges. "Um yes M'am, we found your son playing doctors and nurses with Jenny from next door."

I almost said to myself "only in America" but I remembered another story we all say that to. The multi-million dollar lawsuit over the hot cup of McDonalds' coffee. The mother of all lawsuit stories. Yes, I can picture you all now shaking your heads in abject disgust.

Well the other day I was just surfing the net in a haze. You know the way, clicking on the bright shiny links until before you know it you look up and there are people in front of you having sex in ways you've never even dreamed about.

I had no such luck. Instead I ended up reading about 79 year old Stella Lieback, the woman from that infamous story who, it turns out, actually had a pretty decent case against McDonalds. You can read about it here. (click on the pic to see the message that resulted from the lawsuit)

After reading that I have to say, I would have sued them too. Third degree burns, and $20,000 medical bills for skin grafts. She even approached them to cover the bills and they offered her $800!!

Granted, the end sum of $2.7m (reduced to $400,000 on appeal) is ridiculous but if you received third degree burns I'm pretty sure you would want your medical bills covered. There you go, not quite the all prevailing compensation culture the liberal media would lead us to believe... or is it the right wing media, I always get them mixed up.

Although, then of course there is the case of the Hot Pickle. So we can probably just put it down to a case of mistaken identity.

So back to this girl charged with a felony. My first thoughts were "little shit, I hope she hit him so hard it hurt for days", followed quickly by "I probably should have been hung, drawn and quartered for my crimes as a kid!" I played doctors and nurses way too much.

Yeah but anyway, 11 year old up on felony charges for basically being a kid.

Only in America!

Links for today:
* Thongs are out (thank the care-bears!)
* Didn't I alread pay for this movie?
* Humanity is dead!