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To: energyplay who wrote (3444)	1/16/2006 5:00:28 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217936

People in the USA are litigious and not surprisingly when cash on the barrelhead awaits successful lawsuits. I suppose the mother was worried about being sued for $millions: <The friends mother who did not call or do anything about the bite - sounds like she should be on Jerry Springer or Dr. Phil.> Hoped it would simply go away as the wound healed. I wondered what the heck some people were doing in a car in a shopping mall carpark a few years ago when it stopped 20 metres from me while I walked across the carpark. It was only after another couple of incidents I realized they didn't want to come within a million miles of being sued for frightening a pedestrian. I wonder if that leaves Americans vulnerable in other countries when they are pedestrians, not realizing that bowling various categories of pedestrians gets more or fewer points. An old person with a walker machine is low value as they are too easy, but a fit and agile adolescent rates quite highly as they can escape being hit by quick reactions. Especially those countries where they drive on the left side of the road. Pedestrians from the USA automatically check to the left when stepping off a sidewalk instead of to the right - WHAMMMM, game over. It would be easy to become blase about roads after years of training as a USA pedestrian, assuming cars will stop to avoid lawsuits and prosecution. Mqurice