[gsninja]

http://www.local10.com/politics/14134345/d...ia&psp=news

http://www.foxnews.c...,297121,00.html

The Nebraskan State Senator decided to "sue God" in order to oppose possible laws that don't allow the filing of frivolous lawsuits. This is real, by the way, and I want to know what you guys think.

[Ironsight]

How the Hell do you sue sombody that might not even exist? I wish i could see your videos, but my dads internet is SO SLOWWWWWW. What laws are we talking about now?

[Someone Else]

I think my brain just exploded... what?

[Split Infinity]

For DarkSword's convenience...

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To prove a point about frivolous lawsuits, Nebraska state Senator Ernie Chambers is suing God.

Chambers said senators periodically have offered bills prohibiting the filing of certain types of suits. He said his main objection is the constitution requires that the doors to the courthouse be open to all. Chambers said, "Thus anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody-- even God."

Triggering Chambers' action is a federal lawsuit against a state judge who barred the words "rape" and "victim" in court.

Chambers' lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.

The lawsuit admits God goes by all sorts of aliases, names, titles and designations and it also recognizes the fact that the defendant is "Omnipresent."

Chambers wrote in the lawsuit that he's tried to contact God numerous times.

The lawsuit also accuses God “of making and continuing to make terroristic threats of grave harm," and alleges God has caused, "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, and the like."

Chambers asks for the court to grant him a summary judgment. He said as an alternative, he wants the judge to set a date for a hearing as "expeditiously" as possible and enter a permanent injunction enjoining God from engaging in the types of deleterious actions and the making of terroristic threats described in the lawsuit.

[Ironsight]

TY Split

What exactly does this guy hope to gain, besides the hatred of thousands of Christian fanatisits?!

[Nosferatu]

DarkSword, on Sep 18 2007, 08:24 PM, said:

TY Split

What exactly does this guy hope to gain, besides the hatred of thousands of Christian fanatisits?!

A piece of how insane the world is.

My hat off to you good sir.

[Ironsight]

The world is going to Hell in a Handbasket. Too bad. What is this guy thinking, seriously?

[Split Infinity]

Put yourself in this man's shoes. Ask yourself: what is wrong with this case?

[Ironsight]

A polititian is Sue-ing a religious idol?

[Split Infinity]

And that's wrong...why?

[Ironsight]

Its not exactly possible...or logical

[Someone Else]

Am I the only one that finds the article hilarious?

[Split Infinity]

DarkSword, on Sep 19 2007, 02:45 PM, said:

Its not exactly possible...or logical

Why not?

[Ironsight]

Because your asking money from a Being that might not even exist. And if God does exist, then this dude is gonna have the Pluages on him soon.

[Someone Else]

He's not really suing god, he's trying to make a point.

[Split Infinity]

DarkSword, on Sep 19 2007, 02:52 PM, said:

Because your asking money from a Being that might not even exist. And if God does exist, then this dude is gonna have the Pluages on him soon.

But there's no proof that he doesn't exist. And the judicial system cannot discriminate against those who follow a concordant religion.

[gsninja]

Wind Dude, on Sep 18 2007, 09:47 PM, said:

Am I the only one that finds the article hilarious?

No, you're not. I laughed extremely hard when I first read it. =P This guy isn't going to accomplish anything, that's for sure.

[Ironsight]

My point exactly

[Split Infinity]

But I just invalidated your point, since you haven't directed a counterargument.

[Nickelback]

Wind Dude, on Sep 19 2007, 02:53 PM, said:

He's not really suing god, he's trying to make a point.

Am I the only one here who sees a massive connection to this and that movie 'The Man who Sued God'?
What a dumbass...
WD is quoted becuase that's pretty much what the movie was about.

[Aquamarine]

About time! God's been out of line for way too long! He's acting like he owns Earth!

[Caael]

Wind Dude, on Sep 19 2007, 05:47 AM, said:

Am I the only one that finds the article hilarious?

No. I lmao'd when I read it. This really does prove the 'americans are dumb' stereotype correct.


http://www.youtube.c...h?v=PF0eIwkjlaU

I'm pressing charges against god for murder.

[Aquamarine]

I'm pressing charges against Caael for copyright infringement.

[Someone Else]

Nickelback, on Sep 18 2007, 11:58 PM, said:

Am I the only one here who sees a massive connection to this and that movie 'The Man who Sued God'?
What a dumbass...
WD is quoted becuase that's pretty much what the movie was about.

I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not.

But to the rest, he's just proving a point. Albeit it's a radical point, but it's a point nevertheless.

Though this post will probably just be ignored. :)

[Toasty]

I heard about this on Glenn Beck. Like WD said, he's not insulting any religion, he's just makeing a point to he public to quit being asses and stop sueing people just beause they can. And honestly? I support him. I get really annoyed when I hear about someone sueing some fast-food place/person/organization for whatever reason. It's never/rarely a good reason, and it's just a complete waste of time and money. Both of which could be much better spent on something like strengthening our borders, or for the sue-ees, paying off their morgage. Most of the time, they don't even win their lawsuites.

Caael, on Sep 19 2007, 11:12 AM, said:

No. I lmao'd when I read it. This really does prove the 'americans are dumb' stereotype correct.

Like I said, he's doing this to make a point that too any people sue for the most absured reasons. He chose to sue god instead of just saying his point because more people were likely to listen if he "sued god." And he was right. He's not doing it to be a dumbass, he's doing it to make a point.

[Split Infinity]

I hate those kind of people. They need to go on some sort of spiritual journey, seriously.

[Eugine]

I doubt he was even trying to be serious Split. Mr. T basically summed up what I'd type.

[Someone Else]

Hmm... I wonder... Jacko anybody? Sue, sue, sue!

I think it's hilarious that people sue fast food and candy companies for making them fat. Wasn't a law made a couple years ago for the US so people can't do that? It's funny they even had to go to the trouble to make a law to stop it. It's times like that that I agree that Americans are dumbasses.

[Split Infinity]

People are more desperate to sue these days, because:

A. They now have the power to do so.
B. They need the money more.
C. Everyone else is doing it.

I AM AWARE that the man was trying to make a point.

[Eugine]

Spam King, on Sep 20 2007, 02:59 AM, said:

I hate those kind of people. They need to go on some sort of spiritual journey, seriously.

Then you said this because?

[Split Infinity]

People who are in it for the money.

[Mindpatch]

You should all know that this has absolutely nothing to do with religion whatsoever, he's just trying to make clear that the world has gone so crazy sueing everybody in it's way that the senator (possibly a christian himself) decided to actually sue god, just to show you guys how crazy it actually is in the world of law. I actually read this article of A JUDGE sueing a laundromat for $54.000.000 because the laundromat had lost his pants and the sign on the door said, -happyness guaranteed-...

[FlamingDuck]

Yeah, that was pretty awful. They even found the pants later, but he wouldn't accept them. He said he encouraged others to act like him.

[Toasty]

And that's not a good thing. I just hope that all those lazy dumbasses who sue for no reason just so they can get some cash for little/no work, actually take this to heart and quit sueing. They need to get a real job, and quit looking for the easy way out.

[Aquamarine]

Of course they won't take this to heart. If they were that sensible, they wouldn't even be suing for no reason in the first place.

[Eugine]

People sue for any reason (in USA) because people win. Judges award millions to people for no reason. Example some man broke into someone house, he broke his foot while in the house, which is somehow the owners fault. He won.
That's why I love the EU, you hardly find judges upholding idiotic stuff like the above.

[Split Infinity]

I would like to see a link to that story.

[Eugine]

Don't have a link. That story is probably 5 years old. Also I heard of it from friends, so question its accuracy if you may.

[Mindpatch]

The story was actually that the man dropped his knife and fell onto it in the house he was comitting(?) the crime.

[Wiflewood]

I've heard a variation on that as well. Burglar breaks into garden, The people who own the garden have dug a large hole (I think for the foundation of a shed or something), burglar falls in, breaks his leg, and sues the family because there wasn't any 'Danger: Big hole' signs or the like.

[Someone Else]

I heard two men broke into a house, the family living in it beat up the burglars and threw them out. The burglars sued the family and won.

We could go on about this if you want, and never cite any articles. :P

[Caael]

This makes me think how stupid people really are.

[Aquamarine]

I heard that a bunch of aliens threw a can of Coke from their UFO and that it fell on some guy's house, and then that guy sued the whole universe and got a couple thousand tons of cryptonite.

It's true!

[Split Infinity]

Not citing your sources is PLAGUERISM! :P

[Mindpatch]

I've got it somewhere in my messenger history, I'll try and look it up for ya. xD

[Toasty]

It's just pathetic. I mean, the government (mostly the left wing *cough*) is practicaly encouraging laziness and dependancy on others. Sure, they try and force people to eat better (notice all those fat regulaions?) but a lot of the laws that have been passed encourage dependance on the government, and some of the laws pending enforcement will only make it worse.

[Moonear]

pwned

[Eugine]

You Americans, make Ron Paul President and your problems will be solved ~~. I'd vote for him if I was American (and able to vote).

[Drizzy Drake]

.eugine, on Sep 30 2007, 01:27 AM, said:

People sue for any reason (in USA) because people win. Judges award millions to people for no reason. Example some man broke into someone house, he broke his foot while in the house, which is somehow the owners fault. He won.
That's why I love the EU, you hardly find judges upholding idiotic stuff like the above.

This story is even worse.

This women bought some meth, and OD'd and went into a coma. She wakes up 3 monthes later, sues the drug dealer, and WINS. She won, yet the thing she bought was ****ING ILLEGAL.

Shows how bad the judicial system is now adays.


EDIT-I'm SO sorry, I didn't notice how old this was. Sorry.

[Moonear]

Heh heh, and you went and yelled at that proguesz guy cause he bumped a topic.

There was a story about a woman buying coffee from Mcdonalds, putting it in her lap while hr son was driving the car, and the coffee spilling on her lap. The coffee burned her legs, she sued Mcdonalds, and won 3 million dollars. I hate annoying people like that who think everything is someone else's fault.

EDIT: Found it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._Mc...27s_Restaurants

[Drizzy Drake]

ihatekraden, on Jan 18 2008, 04:53 PM, said:

Heh heh, and you went and yelled at that proguesz guy cause he bumped a topic.

HEY.

1. NEVER, compare me to him again, or I will rip your balls off. :D.
2. I honestly didn't notice how old this was. I was reading through it, and forgot I was reading an old topic.
3. I said sorry.
4. Atleast I wasn't snooping around 2 year old topics, and bumping them becasue I didn't wanna duplicate it.
5. Have a nice day.