Gypsies and Lawyers
Years ago while traveling in Italy I was robbed by a mob of gypsy kids. The Italians in the square just turned a blind eye to the whole fiasco and later I learned from Italian friends that people do not stop the gypsies from robbing tourists because it is almost like welfare and no harm is done except the tourists are relieved of their pocket money that day.
I was thinking about this when I was trying to leave the Green Market yesterday late afternoon and someone had blocked me in and I recalled having had a fender bender with this woman, barely a bender, more like a fender rub, and she proclaimed that she was incapacitated and couldn’t work – what? – I was shocked, but my insurance company rather than fight this claim, settled it. Years ago when I was working as a paralegal and carrying a huge caseload when Champion Insurance went under in Louisiana we did the same thing – assign an amount to it, settled and pay. Wala. Insurance companies don’t fight these bogus claims because it is more costly to do that then to just pay the settlement. Bizarre huh?
But it makes you realize how these sorts of mutual dependencies flourish. I mean look at our political system, it’s so sick at its core, it makes you just want to throw your hands up and agree with PJ ORourke when he says, “Don’t Vote, It Only Encourages The Bastards.”
November 13th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
I know what you mean! Every time I seriously consider not bothering. But I always do! I’m even disappointed in Obama sometimes. There seem to be no heroes. Where are my heroes!?
November 13th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Heroines? I don’t know – I still want to have faith in Obama, some great leaders need a push to be great and the thing is he has to perform within the constraint of what he has – that will define if he is a great leader.