Lawsuit Happy Americans
| 1/18/2007 | Posted by Patti under General |
A New York antique dealer has sued four homeless people. Now, I realize that the great American past time is launching lawsuits but suing four homeless people for $1million just strikes me as a ludicrous waste of court time and resources. Seems to me that when people are homeless they are by definition without the means to have a home so suing for monetary return would have zero impact on them.
The owner of the upscale store in the Madison Avenue shopping district. The group apparently has been ‘camped’ out near this store for more than two years. He has appealed to local groups which deal with the homeless, shelters and the police to no avail. The police likely have some recourse but are also aware that even charging them with loitering repeatedly does little to solve the problem and lots to jam the system up with minor charges. Not sure what the owner expected the other groups to do, the homeless people themselves would have to agree to use the services for them to do anything.
I can understand the desire of the store owners to want the homeless people to ‘camp’ elsewhere. Their presence will impact on the comfort of their customers arriving at the store. With the size of a city like New York, I have to admit to some curiosity why the homeless people are so focused on remaining where they are.
I highly doubt should the case ever arrive at a court room that either the defendants will show up or if they do that any judgement against them would be collectable. But hey, it’s a free world eh.
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