“The sheer volume that they are providing this woman, who is undeniably mentally impaired, knowing to an almost certainty that she is going to use it in an unlawful fashion, we think that crosses the line,” said attorney Jeff Steidley.
A walmart worker is qualified to determine when someone is mentally impaired?
I hope this family loses and i hope walmart forces them to repay the court fees/costs in full. Fuck this money hungry trash family. The girl is a worthless shithead druggy and deserves no sympathy from anyone. Bunch of assholes.
God bless Walmart in this situation. A lawsuit like this is an attack on capitalism and an attack on the American justice system, fuck it it's an attack on American way of life itself.
I would love to get their side of the story,
They shouldn't even have to provide one. A walmart worker has no legal obligation in a situation like this. If anything the workers who dealt with this woman very well may be the mentally impaired ones, it'd explain why their reaction was to merely provide the woman clothing vs contacting medical help.
Fuck that. People should be free to buy whatever the fuck they want. Idiots overdosing and dying shouldn't have a negative impact on my life.
A reasonable person is going to call an ambulance if someone comes in that bad off as the result of a seizure. You know who a reasonable person won't call 911 on behalf of? A stupid junkie doing this to themselves. The fact that they didn't call an ambulance strongly suggests they knew exactly why she was rolling around in that condition.
A random person on the street or working in a wlamart should not be legally mandated to seek help for a junkie shithead under any circumstances.
Even if they knew, it shouldn't matter.
Plus, the article says she bought this over a 24 hour span of time. How many different walmart workers dealt with her? You have numerous employees selling her this stuff, likely not recognizing her from past visits, yet the greedy family and lawyer are trying to single out walmart as a single entity, saying it should have known better? The fuck? this wasn't a case of a single bartender shoveling more and more drinks down some wasted dipshits throat as they stumble around talking about how they're gonna speed home as fast as they can with their fucking eyes closed. Is walmart supposed to brief every single worker at the start of their shift as to what customers to look out for, they supposed to put fucking wanted or "do not serve" posters up with customers faces on em? I don't grasp the logic behind this lawsuit nor do i grasp what they expect a store to do differently. Is walmart supposed to provide medical training now to their minimum wage, part time workers? Ridiculous.
I think they've got a successful lawsuit, here. And it's not a bad one, either. More people really ought to know that they can be held liable under these circumstances, and nothing gets that message spread quite like a high-profile lawsuit.
I hope to Allah you're wrong on the successful part, and the rest makes me want to vomit after reading it. What total bullshit. More people really ought to rely on personal responsibility above all else and not seek to hassle the rest of society over the personal decisions of folks who don't deserve to continue living among us. Hopefully this family losing big and being bankrupted by the lost court case gets that message spread.
Fucking GET EM Walmart, fucking get em! No mercy for these greedy pricks.
Sad. I've called the police on drunks and junkies, and some girl I seen walking
down the street crying her face off, and some kid that looked like he was fighting an
adult as I was driving by a bus stop. Yo officers, check this...I'm worried about this person
he/she might need your help. It was easy as fuck to do it too.
It shouldn't be illegal NOT to do that though, and one shouldn't be held liable for not taking action.
But, a lot of people don't see an affliction when they see an addict, they see a "bad person". They see flawed morals. So, they think, "Not my problem."
It's very often a fair assessment.
And whether you can empathize or not, it doesn't really change that last part, "not my problem.". I speak quite ill of filth like this girl, however it doesn't mean i have NO sympathy(i mean i don't in this specific case, but with other druggies, the potential for sympathy is there). I can empathize, i truly can, however ultimately it really isn't mine or anyone elses problem. If someone like this wants to huff or shoot up or whatever else until they die, so be it. Not on me to stop em, i shouldn't be legally required to help.
And, no one seems to know how Walmart could be held liable. That's a problem.
If there's a law on the book that means Walmart is in any way responsible for this, then i agree that should be brought to the public attention. The only way we can get bullshit, asinine laws off the books is if our eyes are open to them and we work to rid our justice system of it.
Ahhh, but yet, when that young lady was determined to have contributed to her friend's suicide via telephone, folks here were calling for her head.
Not me. Personal responsibility rules all.
What is the difference between giving a suicidal person a pep talk - a metaphorical rope by which they will hang themselves - and knowingly selling a junkie the poison by which they will kill themselves?
The intent is completely different. A person on the phone in this situation knows full well what theyre doing and what the result will likely be, they are striving to bring about that specific result.
Just cuz you sell a junkie a means to get high doesn't mean you're knowingly contributing to their death. Plenty of drug addicts use without overdosing and dying. It disgusts me when i hear people blame drug dealers or bartenders or in this case a walmart worker for a drug addicts death. Plus, there's no way to prove that any worker knew exactly what she was using this stuff for.
I don't see any comaparison at all to a walmart employee merely ringing up someones purchases, and that's all that occurred here. A walmart employee did their fucking job, that's it. Yet now we have a lawsuit? Pretty fucking outrageous.
The former is a criminal act
Shouldn't be.
The latter is merely a civil liability.
I see no reason to hold the latter liable, civilly or criminally.
we've designed a society that gives its members the autonomy to make its own decisions. Good, bad, or indifferent.
Have we? If what you say is true, why was this lawsuit not thrown out the second it was brought forth, why is it permitted in the first fucking place?
Yes, she is buying it... incoherent, half nude, with vomit in her hair and shit on her.
The article is slight on the details. I highly doubt she walked in lookin a mess, and some worker gave her a makeover and then personally piled some more huff cans into her cart for her before ringing her up and sending her to her death.
Some worker prob noticed this nutter walkin in and gave her something to put on to spare other customers the site. Perhaps they intended to contact authorities but lost sight of the dipshit and figured she had left, perhaps they were too busy and said fuck it, perhaps a manager or someone else told them they'd take care of it so they rinsed their hands of it. We don't know how it played out, plenty of understandable possibilities. It's highly unlikely this same person is the one who rung her up and sold her more cans. The person who rung her up may have had no idea that she earlier had walked into the store in such a state. Not ALL of these workers she came into contact with may have heard her mention her seizure.
There's soooo many potential variables here, soooo many potential sides to the story. I don't grasp why anyone would pick just one after reading an article so lacking in info/details and say, "yes, good lawsuit, walmart employees shouldn't done different and seem liable here".
Although again, not a single one of these potential explanations should matter regardless, cuz it's no ones fault but hers.
The president is quite clear. If you're selling something to someone, and you can reasonably assume they're going to misuse it to someone's detriment, you can get in trouble for selling it to them.
That's bullshit and there needs to be some sort of legal reform or law passed to stop this from being the case. And i simply don't see how they could prove that any of these employees reasonably could have assumed this would happen.