Perhaps you've all seen this already, perhaps you haven't. I saw this recently and found myself conflicted. I've learned that when you debate that there's something you've gotta do that is sometimes very hard to control, and that's leaving the emotion out of it. I struggle with this a lot and have given up on talking about things that personally matter to me, because I am nowhere near educated or eloquent enough to articulate my point across in a manner in which is easy for people to comprehend. Having watched this video, I tried to ignore the crying mother of the deceased girl and spent time focusing on the matter at hand. What I've come to realise is that I honestly dont agree with the outcome that I once would agree with.
Here is a summary of the case (at least what is portrayed in the video)
-Mother always leaves keys in her car
-son asks mother if he and his friend can listen to the music in the car
-mother says yes
-boy is asked by girl if she can drive upto her grandads which is nearby
-girl flips car
-girl dies
-mother of boy is suing the mother of girl for damages to her car.
The outline of the offence is as follows. The mother of the boy believes the daughter endangered her son, and wants compensation his medical bills and her car. The car was driven without the permission of the mother and therefor, stolen. The boy claims that the mother lets him drive the car sometimes around their property so he says its okay for the girl to drive it. You cannot give permission on behalf of someone else, especially if that person isn't aware of what that is. The girl drives the car when she isn't supposed too.
The defence (Which seemed to be made entirelly up from judge judy) was as follows.
-Shouldn't have left your keys in your car
-What did you think was going to happen.
I'm sorry if this seems like im missing something, but that's about all I got from it. I feel very sorry for the mother of the girl, almost breaks my heart that she is in a court room defending herself to this woman, but she only has her daughter to blame, unfortunately. That is my view based on what is law.
maybe what law is, isn't right. But if you were to put yourself in the shoes of a person who has taken your property without your knowledge, and ended up killing themselves, it is not your fault. Ask yourself, if the girl had lived, would you be pursuing damages to your vehicle?
thats just my opinion. What do you think?
edit: you can also see my discussion on the youtube page with other members if you want to get others opinions on it.
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