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Flaming idiots- And their lawy

2003 Reader Submission
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This is a classic! Six stupid people rent a car,

go to a neighborhood where people deliberately

shoot fireworks at each other on the 4th of July, intending to do the same thing. They shoot rockets

out the windows at the locals as they drive about,

then screw up, blow up/burn up the car, kill one

of themselves and severely injure another...

What do they do?

Why, sue the car rental company of course!

From the National Law Journal of 11/8/02:

Auto Renter Not Liable for Fireworks

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1036542840863

Submitted on 12/09/2002

Submitted by: Bert
Reference: The National Law Journal 11/8

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Gregory said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I think we saw this before, but without a reference. I do not consider vandals worthy of protection under the "bystander" rule if they were willing participants in the vandalism. Ditto for the guy falling out of the car while throwing rocks and the guy hit in the head with a broken golf club while helping vandalize mailboxes.

Bert said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
I like the story, the questions of the maturity of the dead girl at 15 and whether she qualifies as an innocent bystander after getting in the car with yahoos doing such things I will leave to the raters...

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