The Monopoly Guy wrote:


More like what was done to me with a pineapple.

Anyway, in your jihad against trial lawyers, I hope you'll make room for their tax-paid equivalents. I've ranted about forfeiture laws before, but if we're going to go crazy defending every letter of the 2nd Amendment, I'd like some attention paid to the 4th. Long before the War on Terror and the PATRIOT Act and Sister Patriot Act II, the legendary War on Drugs was used as an excuse to enact forfeiture laws that are absolutely mind-boggling. Scream all you want about a woman pouring scalding-hot coffee in her lap and suing McDonald's, then read about the convenience-store owner in Miami who over the course of a few months built a fence around his parking lot, put up stadium-style lights, called the local cops repeatedly to ask them to increase the patrols in his area at night, and still lost his store and land to the government when it was determined small-time dealers were using his parking lot at night to conduct business.

Or your pet peeve (I seem to sense), the small airline industry - check how many small (single plane) operators lost their property (the plane) and livelihood (again, the plane) because they were foolish enough to believe the guys who rented it were not lying when they said they weren't drug smugglers.

Those sorts of lawsuits are absolutely the worst, and "trial lawyers" are the ones you're going to want to turn to when you get the indictment, not against you, but against your new house, car, or whatever.