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$24M verdict upheld in railroad burn case

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[quote user="sfcouple"] Yes, I do agree.  There are times when common sense needs to kick in and tell one not to climb on top of a freight car located underneath wires.  And in the case of McDonalds, the spills were accidental and not necessarily the result of someone's lack of judgement.  Hot coffee served at drive thru fast food restaurants is an open invitation for such an accident.  However, it's one thing to accidently spill coffee and another to deliberatly tresspass and climb on top of a freight car.  So my McD analagy may not be appropriate here.  I am in no way justifying this award, and generally object when people are rewarded for their stupidity.  We recently had a situation at our Zoo in San Francisco where 2 idiots were taunting and harassing a female tiger.  The tiger got very angry and somehow managed to escape from her enclosure, strolled by people who were not involved with the taunting, and actually hunted those 2 guys down. She killed one and injured the other.  Unfortunately, the police had no choice but to kill the tiger before she harmed anyone else.   Now in this case I actually felt sorry for the tiger, as she was just doing what tigers do.  But the families involved hired a well known lawyer, Mark Geragos, and they will probably become millionares.  As far as I'm concerned, the city should just pay for the burial and medical expenses and nothing else.  I don't know what the answer is, sometimes the large awards might be justified and other times they are just absolutely ridiculous.  Wayne [/quote]I am not sure what it takes to taunt a tiger, but tigers should not be able to get out of their cage no matter how they feel.
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