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Top Crazy Lawsuits 🤯 | Arizona Accident Lawyers | Gerber Injury Law

00:00:01.120 megan gerber here and you are watching
00:00:03.840 la and gerber
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00:00:36.320 we’d love to have fun around here in
00:00:38.079 case you all haven’t noticed that yet so
00:00:40.239 this episode is going to be a little bit
00:00:42.239 different than the others today
00:00:44.399 we’re going to do some laughing while we
00:00:46.559 discuss some of the most ridiculous
00:00:48.960 cases to ever make it to the courtroom
00:00:51.520 now i’ll admit right now not all of
00:00:53.840 these are injury lawsuits but they are
00:00:57.039 all actual lawsuits that really happened
00:00:59.920 and while at gerber injury law we only
00:01:02.640 handle injury cases involving negligence
00:01:05.360 there is still something to be learned
00:01:07.200 from some of these insane cases
00:01:10.880 it’s true
00:01:12.799 living in the united states we have a
00:01:15.280 well-established judicial system and it
00:01:18.320 offers an opportunity to use the courts
00:01:20.640 to achieve justice for whatever wrongs
00:01:23.200 people see
00:01:24.799 but while most cases have merit
00:01:27.920 sometimes the wrongs being sued are not
00:01:30.799 what most people would consider to be
00:01:32.560 unjust
00:01:33.920 they are just flat out weird
00:01:36.720 okay
00:01:37.840 so do you know that a 69 year old
00:01:41.200 dutchman
00:01:42.640 wanted to legally change his age in
00:01:45.360 order to avoid ageism
00:01:48.079 emile
00:01:49.360 rettleband claimed he felt discriminated
00:01:52.320 against because his real age was
00:01:54.320 affecting his job prospects as well as
00:01:56.560 his chances of success on tinder the
00:01:59.119 dating app
00:02:00.240 the judge explained that many rights and
00:02:02.719 obligations are age-based and that
00:02:05.200 changing the legal age could cause many
00:02:07.360 complications
00:02:09.160 obviously
00:02:10.720 he lost his case oh okay like i like
00:02:14.000 this one did you ever hear about the
00:02:16.000 case of the footlong not actually being
00:02:18.720 a foot long
00:02:20.160 so apparently in 2013 when a teenager
00:02:23.200 measured his subway foot long sandwich
00:02:26.239 turned out to be only 11 inches which is
00:02:28.560 clearly an inch too short fast forward
00:02:31.040 three years and the company was settling
00:02:32.959 a class action lawsuit in court
00:02:34.720 promising to make its roles 12 inches
00:02:37.840 the only people to benefit from the
00:02:39.440 lawsuit were the attorneys who were
00:02:41.599 about to receive 520 000 in fees
00:02:45.599 the judge agreed with activist and legal
00:02:48.800 writer theodore frank
00:02:50.400 that this was not fair and dismissed the
00:02:52.560 settlement in the entire case i can’t
00:02:54.640 even imagine how everyone felt for their
00:02:57.599 time being wasted for this case of the
00:03:00.480 sandwich i’m gonna send this back to ken
00:03:02.800 to share some of his favorites with you
00:03:04.480 because i know he has some goodies too
00:03:07.599 listen i know i don’t have as much hair
00:03:10.000 as i used to
00:03:11.360 but i would have absolutely none left
00:03:13.680 after that last case i can’t even fathom
00:03:16.800 that much of our time being wasted to
00:03:19.440 not even get reimbursed for the time
00:03:21.280 spent wait so did megan tell you guys
00:03:23.920 about the kidnapper that sued his
00:03:25.920 hostages for escaping
00:03:28.319 i mean
00:03:29.519 it’s not funny that he kidnapped these
00:03:31.440 people but just listen to this
00:03:33.760 jessie dimick a fugitive facing a murder
00:03:36.640 charge kidnapped a kansas couple in
00:03:39.840 september 2009
00:03:41.760 at some point he fell asleep and they
00:03:44.080 escaped
00:03:45.280 they sued dimick for over 75 000 in
00:03:48.080 damages his response was to counter sue
00:03:52.000 for breach of contract
00:03:53.920 he claimed he and the couple had a
00:03:56.400 legally binding oral agreement for them
00:03:58.879 to hide him from the police
00:04:01.920 as you can imagine his case was
00:04:03.760 dismissed ooh and i love this one you
00:04:06.640 may be familiar with it but if not check
00:04:09.040 this out so in china a man meets an
00:04:12.319 attractive woman they get married they
00:04:15.200 have kids
00:04:16.478 sounds romantic so far right well
00:04:19.839 jan fang
00:04:21.279 the husband saw his newborn daughter who
00:04:24.160 he said was
00:04:25.680 incredibly ugly
00:04:28.400 and did not look like either parent
00:04:30.560 he accused his wife of cheating on him
00:04:32.960 at that point she admitted she had
00:04:35.360 several plastic surgeries before they
00:04:37.440 met
00:04:38.400 he sued her on grounds of false pretense
00:04:41.600 as claiming she misled him by hiding her
00:04:44.400 cosmetic history
00:04:46.000 he won the case and his wife was made to
00:04:48.560 pay him more than 120 000
00:04:51.840 i honestly don’t even fully know how i
00:04:54.080 feel about this one so i’m just going to
00:04:56.720 keep my comments to myself that i don’t
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00:05:01.840 now this last story is something that
00:05:03.520 actually falls into our arena that is if
00:05:05.919 it would have been a valid injury a
00:05:07.919 woman actually blamed a scary poster for
00:05:11.600 falling
00:05:13.039 the woman from new york said she fell
00:05:15.039 down the stairs at the grand central
00:05:17.120 subway station injuring her foot and
00:05:19.520 ankle
00:05:20.400 after seeing an oversized scary poster
00:05:23.520 for the popular showtime series dexter
00:05:26.720 the poster showed the face of the main
00:05:28.720 character under plastic wrap with his
00:05:31.280 eyes open she claimed it was disturbing
00:05:34.080 provocative shocking and fear inducing
00:05:37.520 the judge disagreed dismissing the case
00:05:40.400 saying that the network was under no
00:05:42.400 obligation to maintain the stairs at the
00:05:44.960 station or that it created a dangerous
00:05:47.600 condition
00:05:48.960 she was actually trying to sue the tv
00:05:52.160 network for her injuries at the station
00:05:55.440 i don’t think most people have any idea
00:05:57.440 just how wild it is out there with these
00:05:59.759 cases we have heard some insane things
00:06:02.479 coming directly from our clients and to
00:06:04.560 be honest it definitely keeps things
00:06:06.560 entertaining for us
00:06:08.240 that being said some of the most
00:06:09.840 ridiculous things that cross our path
00:06:12.160 are things that are actually viable
00:06:14.319 cases so i just want to reiterate if you
00:06:16.960 are ever in a situation even if it seems
00:06:19.600 wild and silly and you have legitimate
00:06:22.000 concerns about your injury call us to
00:06:24.319 discuss before you scoff it off or let
00:06:26.720 someone tell you that you’re crazy for
00:06:28.560 your claim
00:06:29.680 let us decide if you’re crazy wait
00:06:32.560 i didn’t mean it like that but
00:06:34.400 you know what i mean right
00:06:36.319 ha ha ha i’m laughing all the way to
00:06:38.720 taco bell i am hangry
00:06:41.600 angry and the heads are going to roll
00:06:43.840 and this stuff is going to get flown
00:06:45.600 onto the 303. hurry it up buddy
00:06:49.599 looks like we gotta go until next time
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00:07:09.360 we we appreciate you watching this
00:07:11.440 episode and
00:07:13.039 hope
00:07:15.199 and the company was setting a class
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