Katrina Victims Sue U.S. For $3 Quadrillion!

Wow, that's all I have to say.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22571349/?GT1=10755

Damm, I didn't even know money went that far ,

But those people went trough a lot..

ok, oscar im going to sue you for 3,000,000,000,000 for getting me addicted to this site

IMO, if a person lost their house, job, kids, parents, all other relatives and friends, personal possessions, lost all 4 limbs, went blind, deaf, and was mentally impared and burned on 99% of their body all due directly to the US government, they still wouldn't be entitled to 3 quadrillion dollars. 4 or 5 million, maybe, but sure as heck not 3 quadrillion, or even trillion or billion. That is just bulls*** greediness and lack of personal responsibility at its worst.

Originally posted by gazag

ok, oscar im going to sue you for 3,000,000,000,000 for getting me addicted to this site

ME 2!!! Just Kidding...[:D]

Originally posted by cjd

IMO, if a person lost their house, job, kids, parents, all other relatives and friends, personal possessions, lost all 4 limbs, went blind, deaf, and was mentally impared and burned on 99% of their body all due directly to the US government, they still wouldn't be entitled to 3 quadrillion dollars. 4 or 5 million, maybe, but sure as heck not 3 quadrillion, or even trillion or billion. That is just bulls*** greediness and lack of personal responsibility at its worst.

i think that means a lot of people banded together and are sueing for that amount TOTAL, not for just one person![approve][sillyme]

Thats stupid we gave them enough noney,plus the Governor just asked for 250 billion to rebuild with.

Originally posted by coasterking1993

Originally posted by gazag

ok, oscar im going to sue you for 3,000,000,000,000 for getting me addicted to this site

ME 2!!! Just Kidding...[:D]

Originally posted by cjd

IMO, if a person lost their house, job, kids, parents, all other relatives and friends, personal possessions, lost all 4 limbs, went blind, deaf, and was mentally impared and burned on 99% of their body all due directly to the US government, they still wouldn't be entitled to 3 quadrillion dollars. 4 or 5 million, maybe, but sure as heck not 3 quadrillion, or even trillion or billion. That is just bulls*** greediness and lack of personal responsibility at its worst.

i think that means a lot of people banded together and are sueing for that amount TOTAL, not for just one person![approve][sillyme]

Nope, one dude is sueing for $3,014,170,389,176,410! Says in the first paragraph:

"Hurricane Katrina's victims have put a price tag on their suffering and it is staggering ????????? including one plaintiff seeking the unlikely sum of $3 quadrillion."

That is insane! I agree with cjd, this guy's pretty angry, but that is a ridiculous amount. I can't think of a single thing that would ever be worth three quadrillion.

Three quadrillion? Does every person, institution, and country on Earth combined even have that sum of money?

^ I guess 3 quadrillion could be a price tag for the ownership rights to a solar system containing at least 5 planets and 27 moons.

Somewhere, somebody will actually fight for this case. The plaintiffs will spend time and money on this just to be shut down, instead of doing the sensible thing like every other human being and move.

I could have told you a gaint bowl below sea level will flood.

Besides, it is not the Government's afault that the city flooded and people died. It was not intentional, and all the blame has been taken and aid has been given. These people nned to stop being so greedy.

Isn't our entire economy worth only 11 trillion?

we cant controll nature and what they will do i understand the money the mair requested to rebuild but i dont understand why they are suing over a natural cause... bunch of bull s***(don't know if the cuss is on or not) i gotta say people are quite stupid


by the way what is with the emo, not emo, and partially emo thing im just wondering

[jayman]

Originally posted by kydcoaster

we cant controll nature and what they will do i understand the money the mair requested to rebuild but i dont understand why they are suing over a natural cause... bunch of bull s***(don't know if the cuss is on or not) i gotta say people are quite stupid

espescially when many of the people suing most likely were given "everything they lost" by the government in the first place..
oooh, did i just say that.. [:O]

[Oscar]

help a brotha and drop me a 5 if you get that quadrillion

[jayman]

aw, hayall nah, i'm gonna get me some giant stupid looking rims for my car!

I didnt even no you could sue the U.S. and i didnt no 3,000,000,000,000 was a real number

Can I get in on that? I was effected in some sort of way. [:(]

Originally posted by Cygnus12

Three quadrillion? Does every person, institution, and country on Earth combined even have that sum of money?

^ I guess 3 quadrillion could be a price tag for the ownership rights to a solar system containing at least 5 planets and 27 moons.

haha, thats funny.
i wish i could buy my own solar system.
lol.

I sue him right back for refusing to listen to the analysis and engineering recommendations that the retaining walls be upgraded. Katrina was just one overblown case of "I told you so."

And 3 quadrillion is not "the mother of all numbers." Not even close.

Originally posted by epijlh


Besides, it is not the Government's afault that the city flooded and people died.

If you're going to post your opinion about a story, could you please READ THE STORY first?

Maybe you did, and just missed this part:

Some residents may have grossly exaggerated their claims to send a message to the corps (the US Army Corps of Engineers), which has accepted blame for poorly designing the failed levees.

If the levees had been designed properly, they wouldn't have failed. It's not like a hurricane was far-fetched for that area... they should've built them right in the first place.

Ow wait, just for one person, yeah that's way over the top!

Originally posted by minicoopertx
If the levees had been designed properly, they wouldn't have failed. It's not like a hurricane was far-fetched for that area... they should've built them right in the first place.

I know I will most likely get bashed for this, but oh well.

Even if they were designed and built correctly, how can anyone on the face of this planet guarantee that they would be able to hold back the force of a hurricane?

This might be harsh, but maybe this should be a wakeup call for those who live below sea level. If you live in a high risk area (like below sea level next to the sea, under the shadow of a volcano etc etc), expect everything to go wrong because it eventually will, whether you like it or not.

These days, suing someone is sorta like selling your house.

Let's say that you want to end up with $100. You know that you'll probably end up with less money than you start out asking, so you bump it up to $180 hoping that by the time negotiations are done, it won't go lower than $100. If you're angry and want to let everyone know, then you multiply your $180 by a number that represents how pissed you are and sue for $18000. That way, the person getting sued knows you're pissed and everyone who hears about it knows you're pissed, and maybe they won't be such hardasses when they start negotiating. THEN maybe you'll end up with $200. They will feel super-duper that they talked you down from $18000 to $200. You'll feel even better, since you were only looking to get $100, but you got TWICE that.

So this person suing for $3,000,000,000,000,000,000 could end up with $5mil. The army corps would say "whew, we got out of that OK" and the person suing is doing a happy dance because they were only expecting to get about thirty bucks.