Rugged Individual Stupidity

The California Liberal courts have done it again! Now it's okay to sue a Good Samaritan who helps you out when you are in a car crash, according to them. So I guess they would re-write the old parable this way:

A certain man was driving along a road in California and was in an auto accident. He was badly injured and helpless in a car that was still on the road and could have been struck by another car at any time. The first person to find the man was a clergyman who decided because the man was not of his faith that he should not touch him. The second person to find the man was a business person who was late for a meeting and just pulled to the far outside lane to get around the crashed car. The last person to find the man was a Good Samaritan who stopped and got out and was about to help the man. Then the Samaritan's lawyer pulled up behind him and said, "Don't touch him! He'll be able to sue you if anything goes wrong." Then the Samaritan and his lawyer got back in their cars and drove away after calling 911. The man bled to death before any help came.

It would be poetic justice if the people who were responsible for this ruling were the ones lying there waiting for the first responders. When are people going to get it? The government CANNOT do everything for us, people! Nor should it! We applaud incident after incident where people act in emergency situations to help their friends and neighbors. We make sure the stories get on TV and YouTube and we watch them over and over. But the first time something goes wrong, we're ready to throw these same people under the bus of our victim-driven society! Thank God this mentality didn't exist in the days of the growth of this country! The Younger Brothers might have gotten away Scott-free from Northfield! Many of the potential drowning victims of the Dayton flood of 1912, the Johnstown flood and numerous hurricanes would have just had to drown, I guess. The more I hear about this kind of garbage, the more I want to be back in the military where refusing to leave a wounded comrade behind is part of the core of every person around you.

Beware, litigious miscreants of the granola state! Some day it may be you laying there wounded and in need of aid! Have fun waiting for the EMTs while your fellow citizens stand by, afraid to touch you for fear you might sue them! How about this instead? How about we jail people who refuse to render aid to wounded people, disbar any lawyer or judge who would help the recipients of such aid when they try to sue the person who aided them and definitely sentence the lousy ingrates who would sue someone that helps them in an emergency situation to some kind of community service? Maybe then people will start making sense and realizing that an emergency situation is one in which extraordinary acts are expected from ordinary people and that the recipients of those acts ought to be grateful to be alive!