Should Victims Receive Compensation for 'Surprise STDs'?
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2012/06/07 18:57:51
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A 49-year-old Oregon woman found a little bit of respite this week when the court awarded her a whopping $900,000 as compensation for contracting herpes from a 69-year-old man on their fourth date. According to the L.A. Times, the jury decided the woman was only "25% responsible" for contracting the STD because the man failed to tell her that he had it before they had sex.
Randall Vogt, attorney for the plaintiff, explained, "He was 69, my client was a very attractive 49. My argument to the jury was he just wanted to sink his hooks into her." There were also suggestions of battery ("aggressive consummation"), which made it impossible for her to put a condom on him, and she was able to give evidence that she had not had the STD prior to the encounter. They met on eHarmony. Do you think it's fair to grant the unknowning recipient of an STD legal compensation?
Randall Vogt, attorney for the plaintiff, explained, "He was 69, my client was a very attractive 49. My argument to the jury was he just wanted to sink his hooks into her." There were also suggestions of battery ("aggressive consummation"), which made it impossible for her to put a condom on him, and she was able to give evidence that she had not had the STD prior to the encounter. They met on eHarmony. Do you think it's fair to grant the unknowning recipient of an STD legal compensation?
1. She should have refused to have sex, if he wouldn't wear a condom... not his fault.
2. She should have asked for some sort of proof that he was clean... my most recent ex and I went and got tested together, before we slept together.
If he refused to wear a condom and INSISTED he was clean, then yeah, I could see her receiving compensation.
Brilliant!!!
The idea that guys who sleep around on a woman are at a greater risk of being exposed to a disease and passing it on to her? That's just statistics.
Brilliant!!!
Brilliant!!
I wouldn't do that. And it's just as wrong to be promiscuous when you're a man as it is for a woman.
I don't hate women, that's ridiculous. I just want women that have respect for themselves.
I had a family member at one. They passed away and had a funereal service there. Some old lady came up to me and said how attractive she is and that as a person gets older they don't lose their ummm mojo. She said she may have grey hair on her head but it ain't everywhere and she winked at me. Ohhh geeeesh.
Then some old dude with a oxygen tube in his nose wheezed over at me and said "See that girl back there (she musta been 110) I think she wants to bang me." I just smiled and thought man, I gotta get outta here these old people are whacked.
Then I go up to get a cookie. The attractive young woman from the home whacks my hand with metal tongs. Don't every touch the cookie tray because you may spread germs.
Oh, right, what nature intended for them to do--nothing.
Perhaps you SHOULD go live out in the wilderness, where no one can hear your deluded nonsense. But then who would we laugh at?
Nursing homes are more akin to chicken ranches than nursing homes.