Lawsuit - immigrants families sue trailer co

slowrev · Aug 3, 2005

On a side note. In KY you are requires to have all children under a certain height in an approved child safety seat. Unless you are in a pickup truck and there are 3 adults in there ( which means it is full). Then you can have the child on your lap and it can die quickly in a crash ?????

But then since when has legal been necessarially right ?

Ben

PhilNH5 · Aug 4, 2005

Snowridge,
Maybe I don't grasp the concept because I am a tea drinker. Making tea involves adding boiling water to "hot the pot" - ie you pre-heat the teapot so that when you add hot water from the kettle it does not cool off. Supposedly this makes better tasting tea - don't know if this is true but it was a ritual learn as a child. After allowing the tea to steep it is still quite hot because we wrap the pre-heated pot in an insulated blanket called a tea cozy. when you finally pour the individual cups the tea is still hot. Common sense says to treat it as such.

The McDonalds lady should have expected the the coffee to be hot. Yet she still tried to open it while holding it between her knees. A poor choice that caused her injury. I still do not understand why this action was McDonalds fault.

You mention suffering a similar accident. TThen say thanks to the temp of the water you did not truly get hurt:
( the damage was limited to pain, inconvenience, and embarrassment.

) I take it that the embassarment was due to the realization that you had managed to spill the coffee and it was your fault. I think the McDonals lady failed to grasp this simple point.

Phil

goodoleboy · Aug 4, 2005

Same thing happened with kids getting locked in the trunks of cars.Now cars have a release in the back where kids can get back out.Sadly someone has to get hurt and Sued before a change occurs for situations like this.

meledward23 · Aug 4, 2005

GREAT DANE needs to release a new trailer to correct this situation. Obviously the enclosed trailer is not safe. So Great Dane needs to make a special smuggle imigrant trailer. Mesh sides to allow greater air flow, a 400 gallon water holding tank with dispenser for water, Doors every 10' with an emergency slide (like on an airplane), and well of course a steward person to show how to use the slide.

Now natrually the need to provide proper monitoring equipment to make sure the water is safe. In addition I would redesign the trailer so it sits closer to the ground so people may not hurt them selves getting on and off.

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I understand suing the Driver, but the trailer manufacturer?

Junkman · Aug 4, 2005

Personally, I believe that they should be suing the manufacturer of the tires. If the manufacturer didn't make such a good product that resisted flat tires, the trailer wouldn't have made it out of Mexico. It is all the tire manufacturers fault. Possibly the solution is for all trailer manufacturers to purchase only Mexican made tires????? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

dummy · Aug 4, 2005

Why not the axle manufacturer also? How about the co. that made the lug bolts? If the lug bolts weren't good enough, the trailer would still be on the "other side".

hobbyfarm · Aug 4, 2005

( Personally, I believe that they should be suing the manufacturer of the tires. If the manufacturer didn't make such a good product that resisted flat tires, the trailer wouldn't have made it out of Mexico. It is all the tire manufacturers fault. Possibly the solution is for all trailer manufacturers to purchase only Mexican made tires????? )

Junkman,
Don't laugh, most of the stuff from Mexico, originated from here.
BTW, I get LOTS more flats here in TEXAS than ever (never) in Mexico. (they can not afford to leave nails laying around, besides, those tin and cardbord homes are wired together, and mud huts (OK, adobe) are just - mud)

jeffinsgf · Aug 4, 2005

( ...However, migrant workers are second class citizens in the USA. .....
Ben)

Hey, they're not second class citizens, THEY'RE NOT CITIZENS AT ALL! Now I am sure there are some US citizens, naturalized or native, who make their living working in the fields, but if you pull up behind a pick up full of Latinos in Florida and yell "Immigracion!" 9 out of 10 will hit the ground running.

Sorry. It is time to lock the borders, quit buying consumer goods crap from China, tell our trading partners that if they want to sell to us they have to buy from us, change our economy back into a goods manufacturing economy instead of a "service" economy, hang by the neck any CEO that draws an enormous salary while the company pension fund is gutted, and put our research scientists to work on energy development so that we can tell the Middle East to eat their $%^$ oil.

Junkman · Aug 4, 2005

I heard a rumor that Texas is being annexed by Mexico just the same as some of the larger Texas cities annex smaller towns. I know that this must be true since half the Mexican population is already living in Texas..... The big fish eat the smaller fish ...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

hobbyfarm · Aug 4, 2005

( ( Also no riding in the back of a pickup unless it is farm workers.)

I go down there frequently, as I still have a place there. Unless they have changed the law since I left, and I am unaware of it (always possible), there is no law against riding in the back of a pickup truck -- except in Lee County (Fort Myers) where your dog may not ride in the back.

I still see all kinds of people riding in the back of pickups when I'm there. Migrant farm workers are usually transported in buses.
)

SnowRidge,
You need to get out more.
Here in TEXAS, the seat belt law sort of isn't enforced in the rural areas around the farm ot market roads. If they wanted to make a stink, they could, technically.
It is illegal for someone under 18 to ride in the bed of a PU. It is also illegal to drive over 35mph with anyone in the bed of the PU.
And the laborers who work ofr an "organized" corp (ie Tropicana, Del Monte) are the only ones who will be in a bus.