My dogs killed neighbors chicken

TomSeller · Jul 8, 2014

His prior post was 1 year 5-1/2 months from this one, so we have a while to wait.

rsallen · Jul 8, 2014

If I had a dog that had bit somebody the internet is the last place I'd think about openly talking about it unless it had already been settled legally.
His first post would have been enough to cost him the farm.

TomSeller · Jul 8, 2014

rsallen said:
If I had a dog that had bit somebody the internet is the last place I'd think about openly talking about it unless it had already been settled legally.
His first post would have been enough to cost him the farm.

I hear what you are saying and agree that he should not have confessed on the Internet. But a "nip" on the leg should not cost him the farm. If that is what it was. It's not like the thread a while back where someone's neighbor was nearly killed and maimed for life. If a nip could cost me my farm, I better put a muzzle in my wife's 4pm Chihuahua. Not excusing a nip, but where is the world going if he could lose everything over a nip.

rsallen · Jul 8, 2014

If it broke the skin then it's a dog bite no matter what one wants to call it. No if ands or buts.
And legally it can cost a good deal of money. And no it doesn't matter what sized dog it is.

Soundguy · Jul 8, 2014

rsallen said:
If it broke the skin then it's a dog bite no matter what one wants to call it. No if ands or buts.
And legally it can cost a good deal of money. And no it doesn't matter what sized dog it is.

i agree.. from a liability stand point. the first posts were terrible for todays society. ( the way litigation occours.. etc.. )

k0ua · Jul 8, 2014

Soundguy said:
i agree.. from a liability stand point. the first posts were terrible for todays society. ( the way litigation occours.. etc.. )

Exactly, it does not matter what we all think about what is right or wrong, what matters is in our litigious society, what will the person that was "nipped" do? How good is her lawyer, and what will the jury think? This is what I meant when I posted early on that he was possibly headed for disaster. I hope NOTHING happened. In fact I hope he and his neighbors are sitting on the back porch together sipping lemonade and planing next weeks BBQ. But we may never know.

boggen · Jul 8, 2014

*scratches head* have you chewed the bone up to pieces but still won't let go of the bone? errr thread? hopefully folks can talk it out and be at ease. no real need to broad cast it,

TomSeller · Jul 9, 2014

Let's all get in a political fight in this thread so the moderator cans it and hides the evidence to protect the OP

I am not buying that a nip is the same as a vicious attack. If that was true and I bumped into someone in the grocery store that would be the same as hauling off and smacking them in the head causing brain damage.

Now if the nip caused a serious infection, that would be another story.

A court is going to award relative to damages and excessive awards can be appealed.

KretZ · Jul 9, 2014

Soundguy said:
My guess is once the OP heard that, right or wrong, he was probably in the hot seat for liability, that he took off.

He and the dog made a run for the border, right now they're sitting in a mexican cantina drinking tequila "don't worry Fido, you're safe here, the TBN judges, juries, and executioners have no jurisdiction here! haha" (Fido takes another shot, slams the glass down and BARKS laughter)

Soundguy · Jul 9, 2014

KretZ said:
He and the dog made a run for the border, right now they're sitting in a mexican cantina drinking tequila "don't worry Fido, you're safe here, the TBN judges, juries, and executioners have no jurisdiction here! haha" (Fido takes another shot, slams the glass down and BARKS laughter)

I don't believe anyone here has condemned the OP.. just offered speculation as to what could be real world liability based on what is seen in the news every day. Every day that i drive to work I pass bill boards for a law firm with peoples pictures on it saying 'so and so law firm' got me MONEY!

Pretty much lets you know that lawyers are looking for settlements.. The Company i work for is located at an intersection.. there was a car accident involving a semi truck and a teen driver who had a license for one day. teen ran a stop, semi plowed car.. teen died, and another teen in the vehicle critically injured and suffered a serious brain injury. The lawyer sued the truck driver, truck company owner, owner of the leased trailer, owner of the cargo in the trailer, our company because we were at the intersection where the accident occured, our company's president ( as a seperate entity from the company ), the county, his own insurance, and the utility contractor that had installed the traffic signals at the intersection.

After a bunch of depo's and pre trial stuff, the judge dismissed from the lawsuit the portion suing our company's president seperately, and let all the rest of the 'defendants' stand with the lawsuit.

All the insurance co's met and agreed on a 10k$ each defendant settlement, because each defendants legal counsel felt it was cheaper to offer that group settlement ( 80K$ +/- ) rather than risk a trial with a huge damages amount and then start getting assigned % liability. doesn't take much % liability on a 1 mil claim to exceede 10K$.

So there our company is. our ins had to pay out 10K$ just because our office is LOCATED at the intersection where the accident happened. same with each of the other defendants. I'm sure target that owned all the tv's in the cargo trailer was wondering why they were liable for a teen pulling out in front of the semi..

just goes to show you. you can be at fault.. then sue the pants off a huge amount of people.. and it's cheaper for the defendants to settle than defend.

twisted world.

that's a 100% true story.. 0 embellishment. Your border story pales in weakness to the cold hard facts of reality in a society where you can be in the wrong and sue and win....