My cousin is staying the night, which means that I can expect to hear the sounds of fighting between my sister and him many, MANY times throughout the rest of the night and tomorrow morning.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

And I do not know where he is sleeping tonight, but it isn't going to be my room because he has a tendency to wake up earlier than I care for and I do not want to be up that early on a holiday. Dr. King would be downright pissed, I'm sure.

In other news, America's litigious nature is really pissing me off. Today, near Sacramento, the family of a woman who entered a water-drinking contest (who can drink the most water without peeing) to win a Nintendo Wii is considering suing the radio station who held the contest because she died from drinking too much water.

Reasons why I'm pissed:

1) Common sense should tell you that what goes into your body must go somewhere. If it doesn't go out your urethra, it's going to go to every single tissue in your body, and SOMETHING is going to swell and possibly burst.
2) The woman entered this contest WILLINGLY and regardless of the outcome should be held accountable for her own actions. She sought personal gain from the contest, and whether the radio station explicitly stated the risks (if they even knew them in the first place), she should have stopped when her body told her to stop.
3) It's tragic, yes. But that does not mean that the family deserves to be paid off by the radio station in a wrongful death lawsuit. Again, her actions were hers alone; nobody forced her to drink more water than she could handle, and if she both listened to her body AND fully thought through the common sense consequences of her actions, this tragedy could have been averted. Then again, maybe not.

I'm basically tired of people blaming everyone else but their own stupidity for the consequences that befall them. All I'm asking for is a little common sense and a little responsibility. Is that too much to ask?

Did you hear about the woman who sued because her kid trespassed and died? She complained that they didn't have enough signs... the kid was old enough to read and there were signs but she just didn't want to admit she sucked as a parent. :P

I think average Americans start to forget how to read at some point in their lives. At the aquarium there were signs saying "don't flash the white shark" and yet I saw at least three cameras flashing the shark at any given time.
» randomjunk on 2007-01-14 11:59:02

The woman's family's being stupid. I doubt they'll win the case. I'm sure the radiostation did say something like join on your own risk to their contestants.
» Nuttz on 2007-01-15 01:47:37

this reminds me of a woman who sued McD's cause she burnt her self on the coffe or tea or hot chocolate......NOW That was stupid
» dad2Xavier on 2007-01-17 02:43:06

The McD's plaintiff won the case, too.
» ManOfDarkSunglasses on 2007-01-17 11:52:35

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