Completely agree that the insurance company is being unreasonable (as are the courts if they let the suit against the girl proceed), but we should let the grandparents off the hook. An insurance company will try to pursue anyone they deem responsible for an accident in order to recover the money they paid out for a claim. They can do this without the policyholders approval or knowledge. I’m sure the g’parents are mortified.
Ouch, bad pun.
Sorry, not seeing the pun…it’s been a long day, I guess. No one died, right?
Sorry, my own personal preference to avoid using the term with elderly or just in general. d:
That makes sense now.
It’s not actually a word I don’t tend to use either, and I’ve only ever used it in the sense of embarrassed. Having just looked it up (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mortified) I really had no idea it was actually still used for all those other deathly ways. Yuck. Just got a vision of Paul Bettany in the Da Vinci Code movie.
I think maybe I’ll start avoiding it too. 
okay so its not new to most of you probably but were all gonne die why two words… snake bot
how long until this things got lazer on it…
buzz out loud makes poop my pants once again
Proof of how ridiculously true this is:
About 3 years ago I suffered a bad hot water burn that required an ER trip. About a year ago I received a letter and call from my former health insurer letting me know that they were following up on that claim because the ER report indicated that there may have been another person involved in my accident who might be responsible for it.
So I was talking to the insurance investigator and I was like, “huh? I was home alone, that is why I had to call my friend to come get me and take me to the ER.”
He said, “Well, the ER report indicates that you said that someone named… Paprika? Paprika knocked the mug full of hot tea onto your leg when he sat on the couch. Is that right?”
Me: “Um. Caprica. That’s my cat. Yes, he knocked the mug full of hot tea onto my leg. My cat did that.”
Him: “Your cat… so he doesn’t have health insurance, right?”
<forehead slap>
What do you mean Caprica doesn’t have health insurance? When are you going to learn some responsibility?!?! :eek:
You can actually buy health insurance for your pets. I have to wonder what they’d do in that case.
I bet they’d sue my cat’s insurance company for the cost of my ER visit!
Actually, I have considered pet health insurance but I think, based on the costs I’ve incurred over the past 4 years, that just making sure I have an emergency savings cushion for life in general is sufficient. If the gatos have medical emergencies I will treat them but I’d rather not pay insurance premiums for anyone who doesn’t absolutely need it.
Angeles Duran, a woman from the Spanish region of Galicia, is the new proud owner of the Sun. She says she got the idea in September when she read about an American man registering his ownership of the Moon and most of the planets in the Solar System - in other words, all the celestial bodies that don’t actually do anything for us.
Duran, on the other hand, snapped up the solar system’s powerhouse, and all it cost her was a trip down to the local notary public to register her claim. She says that she has every right do this within international law, which only forbids countries from claiming planets or stars, not individuals:
“There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first.”
…no she’s not stupid…certifiably insane maybe…but not stupid
i hate this woman i know its meaningless, and it shouldnt get me angry but it really has. it just represents the worst part of us. a person claiming ownership of the sun. the absolute gaul of someone thinking like this. maybe someone else thought about it a decided not to be a… she can legally do this is her reason, i wish her nothing but ill in the future.
i got to go to the gutter now to cheer up geeze
So…what’s she gonna do with it? Build real estate on it? Blot it out? Charge for solar energy?
Seriously, what’s the point?
Does she have a flag? :rolleyes:
Would like to see her try to plant one… (:
Well, she should make sure that she only tries to do so at night.:rolleyes:
“I claim this star in the name of… Hot, hot, hot!!”
Ha! She’s lucky they don’t sue the sh!t out of her for global warming.
There’s an idea!!