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01-10-2008, 09:02 AM
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3 Quadrillion dollars !!! ( use your best Dr. Evil Voice)
I don't what's stupider....the lawsuit or the dollar amount
NEW ORLEANS - 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.
A whopping $3,014,170,389,176,410 is the dollar figure so far sought from some of the largest claims filed against the federal government over damage from the failure of levees and flood walls following the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane.
Of roughly 489,000 total claims, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it has received 247 for at least $1 billion apiece, including the one for $3 quadrillion.
"That's the mother of all high numbers," said Loren Scott, a Baton Rouge-based economist.
For the sake of perspective: A mere $1 quadrillion would dwarf the U.S. gross domestic product, which Scott said was $13.2 trillion in 2007. A stack of one quadrillion pennies would reach Saturn.
Some residents may have grossly exaggerated their claims to send a message to the corps, which has accepted blame for poorly designing the failed levees.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080109/...flood_lawsuits
And when I read this...this is the only image I see coming in my head is...
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01-10-2008, 09:43 AM
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I don't blame them for thinking up a lawsuit but the dollar amount would make it more theory than practice.
They would have to prove negligence on the part of the government and that requires more than Kanye West on the witness stand saying "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
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01-10-2008, 12:18 PM
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01-10-2008, 03:06 PM
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I suspect this guy is behind such a moronic lawsuit.
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01-10-2008, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Coramoor
I suspect this guy is behind such a moronic lawsuit.
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^^^^ that's not even funny....
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01-10-2008, 04:59 PM
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^^^^ that's not even funny....
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Was that supposed to be a joke? Wow.
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01-10-2008, 03:51 PM
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Funny this post came up!
I had a customer in the store day from just east of New Orleans.
He lost his house and belongings. State Farm offered him $12,000. He also had flood and hurrican insurance with them!
He and family are now in KC Ks. and they wanted him to pay $3,000 for a house insurance that he could not live in!
SWELL! 
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01-10-2008, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
Funny this post came up!
I had a customer in the store day from just east of New Orleans.
He lost his house and belongings. State Farm offered him $12,000. He also had flood and hurrican insurance with them!
He and family are now in KC Ks. and they wanted him to pay $3,000 for a house insurance that he could not live in!
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How do you know that's not what his damages were? That he chose to move instead of repair the damage isn't his insurance company's fault.
I tend to think that insurance companies are categorically a bunch of scumbags (except perhaps Chubb, Amica, Allianz, etc.).
That said though, I don't have enough to go on to know that your friend is getting screwed by this tiny offer.
Also, as to the picture, I might feel sympathy for someone who was looting food or something, but Heineken?
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01-10-2008, 07:28 PM
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That picture is hilarious. Lighten up.
He's looting friggin' Heineken for God's sake. The bottle in the back pocket is the icing on the cake. Just had to get one more.
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01-10-2008, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
That picture is hilarious. Lighten up.
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I'm pretty light, thanks. 
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He's looting friggin' Heineken for God's sake. The bottle in the back pocket is the icing on the cake. Just had to get one more.
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Oh well now that you've explained the photo, it's utterly hillarious. Yeah. I guess the visual wasn't funny enough for me.
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01-10-2008, 07:43 PM
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I'm pretty light, thanks.
Oh well now that you've explained the photo, it's utterly hillarious. Yeah. I guess the visual wasn't funny enough for me. |
when you have to explain (an already lame) joke (that I understood the first go around thanks) it's no longer funny.
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01-10-2008, 08:31 PM
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What happened to all the money people donated? Besides the designer purses and stuff that some people bought with their Red Cross cards.
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01-10-2008, 08:40 PM
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What happened to all the money people donated? Besides the designer purses and stuff that some people bought with their Red Cross cards.
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Don't even get me started on that one. I can't even count how many stories I heard about that....
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01-11-2008, 01:15 AM
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I'm pretty light, thanks.
Oh well now that you've explained the photo, it's utterly hillarious. Yeah. I guess the visual wasn't funny enough for me. |
Hilarious has one "l".
I'm glad you understood the hilarity. Sometimes all you need is a helping hand.
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01-11-2008, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by macallan25
Hilarious has one "l".
I'm glad you understood the hilarity. Sometimes all you need is a helping hand.
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I also understand sarcasm. As do you. And that's also hillarious.
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