Family sues state, feds over deadly bear attack

[GrnBay007]

Bottom line is...nobody really knows how they would react unless they were the one that lost a child in this situation.

[Deputy Nutz]

Bottom line is...nobody really knows how they would react unless they were the one that lost a child in this situation.

Come on, what the hell does this mean? I think anyone that had kids could honestly say that they would go ape shit if this happened to one of their kids.

An honest reaction would to try and place blame on someone or something.

[GrnBay007]

Bottom line is...nobody really knows how they would react unless they were the one that lost a child in this situation.

Come on, what the hell does this mean? I think anyone that had kids could honestly say that they would go ape shit if this happened to one of their kids.

An honest reaction would to try and place blame on someone or something.

I'm just saying....the people that think a lawsuit is crazy ...unless this has actually happened to them...don't know how they would react with respect to that.

[the_idle_threat]

The parents' relative emotional state does not make this lawsuit any less crazy.

Losing a child---as horrible as that is---does not give people license to react in any stupid way they want. What if the parents' reactions were to kill the child of the DNR agent they think should have warned them? An eye for an eye, as it were? Surely this is not crazy. We can't judge because we don't know how we'd react unless we're in their shoes.

No---there's still an objective standard. This is still a stupid lawsuit, even if they're too upset (and in denial about their own culpability) to know it.

Prepare to see your national parks papered over with warning signs because some people were too stupid to camp safely, and a member of the plainitff's bar was too greedy to tell them that what happened was their own damned fault---not the bear's fault or the government's fault.

[Zool]

Bottom line is...nobody really knows how they would react unless they were the one that lost a child in this situation.

Come on, what the hell does this mean? I think anyone that had kids could honestly say that they would go ape shit if this happened to one of their kids.

An honest reaction would to try and place blame on someone or something.

I'm just saying....the people that think a lawsuit is crazy ...unless this has actually happened to them...don't know how they would react with respect to that.

Agreed. If I was that stupid I would want to blame anyone except the person who's actually at fault. Imagine trying to admit to yourself that its your fault your child is dead? I couldnt live with myself.

[Scott Campbell]

I don't really think anybody is at fault. It's a tragedy.

But hiring a sleazebag lawyer to win $2M in a frivolous lawsuit seems like wrong way to deal with the anguish.

[Zool]

What im trying to do is get into their mind. If my kid was dead, rational thinking would not be common for a good long while.

[Scott Campbell]

What im trying to do is get into their mind. If my kid was dead, rational thinking would not be common for a good long while.

After more than 9 months, I trust that you'd come up with something better than this lawsuit scheme.

[MadtownPacker]

What im trying to do is get into their mind. If my kid was dead, rational thinking would not be common for a good long while.

After more than 9 months, I trust that you'd come up with something better than this lawsuit scheme.

Yeah, almost seems disrespectful to their son's memory to sue. If they just asked for the law or to have money put towards avoiding this again would be understandable but this just comes off as lawyer greed.

It reminds me of my Mom's neighbor. Her kids got ran over by a cop going 55mph in a 25MPH road. It was late and the kid was only 4, tried running across the street. I think she settled with the city and moved away. The house was her dad's so she still goes over sometimes in a new car. I always wonder how she can do that knowing it was bought with her son's blood money. As it is she wasnt a very good mom. I even have guilty feelings because I use to see the lil boy out playing in the street and runing around unsupervised since he was able to walk. I use to always say "he is gonna get hit by a car one day" and tell him to go home. I had even talked shit to his mom once. After it happened I can't even look at her.

[Deputy Nutz]

What im trying to do is get into their mind. If my kid was dead, rational thinking would not be common for a good long while.

After more than 9 months, I trust that you'd come up with something better than this lawsuit scheme.

Yeah, almost seems disrespectful to their son's memory to sue. If they just asked for the law or to have money put towards avoiding this again would be understandable but this just comes off as lawyer greed.

It reminds me of my Mom's neighbor. Her kids got ran over by a cop going 55mph in a 25MPH road. It was late and the kid was only 4, tried running across the street. I think she settled with the city and moved away. The house was her dad's so she still goes over sometimes in a new car. I always wonder how she can do that knowing it was bought with her son's blood money. As it is she wasnt a very good mom. I even have guilty feelings because I use to see the lil boy out playing in the street and runing around unsupervised since he was able to walk. I use to always say "he is gonna get hit by a car one day" and tell him to go home. I had even talked shit to his mom once. After it happened I can't even look at her.

Sounds like all my lovely nieghbors, parenting on the sofa in front of the TV.

I almost saw two brothers get run over, the sad thing the woman driving the car waved at them after she slammed on the brakes, paused to let her son out to go play in the road with the other two.

[the_idle_threat]

What im trying to do is get into their mind. If my kid was dead, rational thinking would not be common for a good long while.

After more than 9 months, I trust that you'd come up with something better than this lawsuit scheme.

Yeah, almost seems disrespectful to their son's memory to sue. If they just asked for the law or to have money put towards avoiding this again would be understandable but this just comes off as lawyer greed.

It reminds me of my Mom's neighbor. Her kids got ran over by a cop going 55mph in a 25MPH road. It was late and the kid was only 4, tried running across the street. I think she settled with the city and moved away. The house was her dad's so she still goes over sometimes in a new car. I always wonder how she can do that knowing it was bought with her son's blood money. As it is she wasnt a very good mom. I even have guilty feelings because I use to see the lil boy out playing in the street and runing around unsupervised since he was able to walk. I use to always say "he is gonna get hit by a car one day" and tell him to go home. I had even talked shit to his mom once. After it happened I can't even look at her.

Deep down, a "mom" like that probably thinks it was a good trade.

[MadtownPacker]

Deep down, a "mom" like that probably thinks it was a good trade.

Her actions say exactly that. Everyone looks at her like trash because they know she is really the one who killed her son not the cop. I wont put the parents in this bear story in the same category but suing over a wild animal attack is ridiculous.