[PRCo] Re: Wabash Tunnel in Operation

[Ken & Tracie]

To borrow a quote from another discussion list, SEPTA would threaten to 
reduce service if somebody found an ant crawling on the trolley wire.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:48 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Wabash Tunnel in Operation


>
> Check the WSJ/New York Times on the state library website, Fred.  The
> database is searchable - including such other things like the Philadelphia
> Company.
>
> But back to Stella - and thank you, Joshua for the link.  I'd heard of the
> case but never read the background.  And as luck would have it, about a 
> week
> ago someone sent me a listing of "Stella Awards".
>
> But in reading the WSJ article, was struck by this comment:
>
> Mr. Elliott, the juror, says he began to realize that the case was about
> "callous disregard for the safety of the people."
>
> Remember the SEPTA case about ten years ago where a small boy lost a foot 
> in
> a defective escalator on the Broad St. subway, and the SEPTA lawyers 
> argured
> that it was the mother's fault?  And when the jury found for the family,
> SEPTA ran to the press and announced that they should not be expected to 
> pay
> the judgment because that would mean reducing service.  (I'll have to do
> some searching to see what then happened)  Too often, there is no one to
> protect the least among us.
>
> John
>
>
>>From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Wabash Tunnel in Operation Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007
>>15:51:32 -0500
>>
>>This is a 1994 case.   I've heard it was overturned on appeal.  Yes?
>>No?
>>
>>On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Joshua Dunfield wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > John Swindler wrote:
>> >>
>> >> And then there are the "Stella" awards (similar to Darwin awards)
>> >> named
>> >> after women who was awarded a large settlement for managing to spill
>> >> McDonald's coffee on herself.  [...]
>> >
>> > Thanks for giving the canonical example of my earlier point about
>> > sensationalized bad reporting; and if you want to read something
>> > that's
>> > not:
>> >
>> >   http://www.vanfirm.com/mcdonalds-coffee-lawsuit.htm
>> >
>> > Ignore the fact that it's a WSJ article on a law firm's website; it's
>> > still a WSJ article.
>> >
>> > -j.
>> >
>>
>>
>
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