Thursday, February 19, 2009

Facebook Statuses

While out running, I started thinking about some law concepts in terms of a Facebook status. Here are some I thought of along the way (a nice, sunny, 3 mile run with my pups):

  • Sarah is glad her neighbors don't have a reasonable expectation in the trash and recycling they put out on the curb because she likes seeing who else likes good beer and shops at Costco.
  • Sarah wonders if her neighbors know that if their dogs (who are on invisible fence) ever attack her dogs while running in the street, they will be held strictly liable for injuries, especially because they've seen the dogs attack others before.
  • Sarah would be strictly liable for injuries her cat causes others because her kitty is known to bite.  
  • Sarah wonders if running with 2 dogs and an Ipod (not this time, though) would make her contributorily negligent if she got hit by a car.  Surely though, the driver would have had the last clear chance to avoid the accident.
  • Sarah hopes she never has to go on to her neighbor's property to protect herself because they have a very nice garden that would cost a lot to repair.
  • Sarah thinks that our current president is managing his exclusive powers to handle foreign affairs quite well.
  • Sarah wonders if the police ever caught the vandals who stole our Obama signs---they should have been charged with larceny and trespass.
  • Sarah thinks people should stop trying to sue restaurants when they find a feather on a chicken wing or a small bone in their fish.
  • Sarah will gladly perfect your cash if you give it to her.
  • Sarah owns her house in fee simple absolute, subject to her bank's mortgage.
  • Sarah thinks Dook players should be held liable in tort (battery) for their flagrant fouls that appear to exceed the scope of consent for a college basketball game.
  • Sarah would set up an honorary trust for her dogs, but wonders who she could appoint to enforce it without thinking it was a joke.
  • Sarah doubts the Simultaneous Death Act and the 120 hour rule would apply to above-mentioned trust for dogs if the dogs happened to die at the same time.
  • Sarah admits she relies on  reliable authoritative texts to make some decisions.

  • Sarah's arguments on Tuesday will prevail in "court," unless some unforeseeable, intervening, superseding event occurs.

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