Please face forward and hold the handrail

So if the escalator stops abruptly and she loses her balance, falls and injures herself, who pays?

The Canadian Health Care System, maybe that is why they feel this way. Live in a nanny state, expect Nanny to tell you what to do.

Who pays ? The government's evil socialist health care system, silly ! John T.

If you could please refrain from painting all Canadians with the brush of a single silly subway security guard in Quebec - the rest of us 35 million would much appreciate. I suspect that the idiotic decisions of the lower courts were also a regional anomoly. John T.

I won't use an escalator any more. Power went out once and I got stuck on one for over an hour. Terrible experience.

Hire the one suing McDonalds for the guy complaining about them cooking their veggie burgers on the same grill they use for those made with meat.

Or the one who helped the lady sue McDonald cause she spilled hot coffee on her lap and burned herself.

As a judge put it at a son's graduation, we are dumbing down America to where we need a warning on a hot cup of coffee that spilling it on yourself might burn you.

Fabio Camacho, now there's a good Quebec name... Kosian and the layer, Aymar Missakila, are other good ones.

"Bela Kosoian, right, reads the Supreme Court of Canada decision with Fo Niemi, executive director for the Center for Research Action on Race Relations."

Oh well, Montreal always did suck.

Next thing they'll be mixing the milchig and fleishig utensils.

If you dig into that it's not as stupid as it sounds. The old lady boiled her snatch, spent 8 days in the hospital, had skin grafts, and was in rehab for a long time. She asked for $20,000 to cover the medical expenses and McDonald's offered $800. Then it was off to the races.

Some of the frivolous suits start when a large corporation stonewalls. They have a flock of corporate lawyers sitting around picking their noses so it doesn't cost them much to bulldoze John Q.

I wonder who paid her lawyer bills. Simply saying she was eventually acquitted doesn't mean she didn't pay dearly for a crime she didn't commit.

Burger King, if it matters.

The lawyer was a Congolese working for some sort of race relations organization. There is more here than meets the eye.

The woman did something stupid. It was her fault.

Just as if I bought a brick or cinder block and dropped it on my foot and broke my foot. Do I sue the people that sold me the brick and the ones that made it ?

The company should probably have paid, as almost anytime a company is sued by an individual , the person will win. They have the attitude that it is just the insurance company and feel that they are getting ripped off by the insurance comapany.

I would probably go against the insurance company because I felt ripped off by one. A car ran a stop sign and I hit them. Was not going very fast, but the front was damaged, the car went sideways and took out the whole drivers side,and the around the back to wipe out the back. The metal was not pushed in all that much. However the cost to repair it was excessive. The car was only 3 years old in 1972. They told me they found one for $ 1700 similar to mine, but were only going to give me $

Is that what your buttbuddy tells you?

Yep - it's doubtful that a regular citizen would opt to go to the Supreme Court over something so trivial. It's good that the Supreme Court got it right . John T.

If people don't call an over officious government to task every now and then it just keeps getting worse. It is just too bad that you usually end up with a 6 figure legal bill if there is not some other entity willing to foot the bill.

Yeah, it was stupid to assume you could add cream in sugar to 190 degree coffee without letting it cool down for half an hour.

I have a little sympathy since when I get a cup of drive through coffee I'd really prefer to drink it now and not 30 miles down the road.

The stupid part was holding it between her legs while trying to pry the lid off.