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Apr. 11th, 2003 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojSomebody's smoking crack over at Bravo! TV. They've been showing Law & Order sequentially for months, and then all of a sudden this week they went haywire. Three days in a row. :grumble:
OTOH, I did get to see the ep where Van Buren sidles up to a black guy who's 'passing' for white and says, "Hello, mah brother..."
The rest of the ep, I could do without, but that part is very, very funny. And I got to see Burden again, which is always good. But damn it, that's not what was supposed to be on!
Oh well, back to Torts. You know you've been studying too hard when you find yourself in a strange postion (in my case, kneeling in my seat in the car, with my seatbelt off, awkwardly reaching under the back seat to get a sippy cup while the car is in motion driven by somebody else, just as a city snow-clearing truck slowly backs up along a snowy street and a dog runs into the street) and what goes through your mind is, Oh, here's a torts case waiting to happen.
I could just see it: Bordes v. City of Ottawa [2004] 3 S.C.R. 488, where the plaintiff (me) sues the city for not having cleared the street adequately or having faulty brakes on the truck or whatever, causing an accident that wrenched my back and made me lose potential income, and the city sues back for the emotional damage I caused their employee, or at least tries to say that I was partially at fault because who kneels in a car and reaches under the back seat while it's in motion, for God's sake, and we say it was barely moving and was on an almost deserted street and the owners of the dog sue back for the loss of their dog, and our kids sue us for careless driving and sue the dog owners for not leashing him and sue the city for having a careless driver and it's all just one big huge Supreme Court-worthy clusterf...
Have to do this exam. Soon. Have to get out of this mindset.
OTOH, I did get to see the ep where Van Buren sidles up to a black guy who's 'passing' for white and says, "Hello, mah brother..."
The rest of the ep, I could do without, but that part is very, very funny. And I got to see Burden again, which is always good. But damn it, that's not what was supposed to be on!
Oh well, back to Torts. You know you've been studying too hard when you find yourself in a strange postion (in my case, kneeling in my seat in the car, with my seatbelt off, awkwardly reaching under the back seat to get a sippy cup while the car is in motion driven by somebody else, just as a city snow-clearing truck slowly backs up along a snowy street and a dog runs into the street) and what goes through your mind is, Oh, here's a torts case waiting to happen.
I could just see it: Bordes v. City of Ottawa [2004] 3 S.C.R. 488, where the plaintiff (me) sues the city for not having cleared the street adequately or having faulty brakes on the truck or whatever, causing an accident that wrenched my back and made me lose potential income, and the city sues back for the emotional damage I caused their employee, or at least tries to say that I was partially at fault because who kneels in a car and reaches under the back seat while it's in motion, for God's sake, and we say it was barely moving and was on an almost deserted street and the owners of the dog sue back for the loss of their dog, and our kids sue us for careless driving and sue the dog owners for not leashing him and sue the city for having a careless driver and it's all just one big huge Supreme Court-worthy clusterf...
Have to do this exam. Soon. Have to get out of this mindset.
