Good old fashioned beatdown

[Gman]

Starbucks doesn't sell coffee. They sell coffee flavored milkshakes at $4-5 a pop.

My drip coffee maker on the counter makes coffee with locally roasted (not over roasted like Charbucks) beans at about $.50/pot.

[hollohas]

Well, good guy is facing a lawsuit. That's BS.

https://www.circa.com/story/2017/09/...itting-a-crime

The bad guy's mom said the good guy "used excessive force".

[Bailey Guns]

Mom sounds like as big a POS as her son.

[ACE2GOOD]

I found the Optimus Prime mask pretty funny. Kind of completes the whole mommy is sueing for her son BS who was wearing a kids mask to rob the place. Overall like everyone has said, bad call due the gun could have been real and gone off and who cares if Starbucks loses money. I would have turned around and walked right out the door.

[Zundfolge]

Well, good guy is facing a lawsuit. That's BS.

https://www.circa.com/story/2017/09/...itting-a-crime

The bad guy's mom said the good guy "used excessive force".

The would-be robber, his mother and his attorney should all be taken out behind the chemical sheds and shot.

[hollohas]

This kind of stuff really isn't good for our society. If good guys didn't face legal trouble every time they helped, maybe we'd have more good guys stepping up. And if more good guys stepped up and dealt immediate justice to bad guys, I guaran-damn-tee there'd be fewer bad guys.

[68Charger]

This kind of stuff really isn't good for our society. If good guys didn't face legal trouble every time they helped, maybe we'd have more good guys stepping up. And if more good guys stepped up and dealt immediate justice to bad guys, I guaran-damn-tee there'd be fewer bad guys.

agreed, needs to be counter suits- since her thug stabbed him in the neck first... bring momma into the lawsuit as a conspirator... since she seems to think what he was doing was legit.

[copfish]

Excessive force? WTF, he did not use enough force if the oxygen thief is still moving... She should be countersued for conspiracy and raising a dumbass.

[Gman]

The suing party should at least have to pay the legal bills of the defendant if they lose. There needs to be skin in the game to avoid some of the stupidity when people sue because they have nothing to lose.

[Zundfolge]

The suing party should at least have to pay the legal bills of the defendant if they lose. There needs to be skin in the game to avoid some of the stupidity when people sue because they have nothing to lose.

The problem with "loser pays" is that the game becomes even more rigged in favor of the rich.

Lets say your wife is poisoned by Dow Chemicals and you sue them for wrongful death, they'll say "I tell you what, you walk away now and we'll forget all this, but if you don't win you should know that we've tasked a team of a dozen attorneys to this case and each one gets payed a thousand dollars an hour and they'll each have thousands of hours in the case before all is said and done ... do you really want to risk it?"

I'd rather see cases judged by the judge to determine whether they're frivolous or not and if they are then the frivolous plaintiff and their attorney should be fined (and the attorney should face disbarment if the frivolity is too great or he's got too many of these judgements against them).