Age Of Responsibility?
A girl can be sued over accusations she ran over an elderly woman with her training bicycle when she was 4 years old, a New York Supreme Court justice has ruled.
The ruling by King’s County Supreme Court Justice Paul Wooten stems from an incident in April 2009 when Juliet Breitman and Jacob Kohn, both aged four, struck an 87-year-old pedestrian, Claire Menagh, with their training bikes. Menagh underwent surgery for a fractured hip and died three months later.
In a ruling made public late Thursday, the judge dismissed arguments by Breitman’s lawyer that the case should be dismissed because of her young age. He ruled that she is old enough to be sued and the case can proceed.
This is of course, mad. A judge who believes a 4 year old can reasonably foresee when her actions could foreseeable harm others is a judge who has never spent any time with a 4 year old. Maybe he has heard about them, or seen one in pictures?
Now we have a legal wet dream – surely their lawyer will in turn successfully sue the bicycle manufacturer because there wasn’t a sticker on it saying ‘WARNING: DO NOT RUN OVER OLD PEOPLE’.
And so the beat goes on….
Unbelievable! This goes so far into the attitude of ‘cradle to grave’ it is really unimaginable?
Even further by extension one must be aborted due to the fact their uncontrollable vomit would bling a person temporarily!
It is high time we abort people at the time they reach the age of judge or politician!!!!!!!!!
Bloody good job such twatish legislation wasn’t around when I was a nipper ..
My old Mum (82) God bless her still tells the tale of how I, at 3 years of age rode my “Mobo” (those of a certain age will know what I mean) tricycle over old Ma Corkett’s legs, whilst she was on hands & knees, donkey-stoning her front step (again you need to be of a certain vintage to recognise the lost art) .. she must have been in her late 60’s back then ..
I don’t recall doing such a thing .. neither do I remember the tanned backside which Mum assures me I got … =-O 😉 😀