Fuck that. Good old fashioned canons. Start shooting 20 pound bowling balls at them.

You’re welcome to come join Canada, eh.

I have no idea about US laws. In Canada, pay periods can be anywhere from weekly to monthly.

The term length for pay day loans is your pay period, so it varies.

They’re okay if you only borrow a small amount and pay it back in full without reborrowing. That rarely happens. I used to work at Money Mart (a payday loan company) and everyone that I dealt with were serial borrowers, most taking the max they were allowed. It starts off as a life line but quickly turns into an…

Don’t waste your energy. This guy is a stupid sack of shit. He wouldn’t be able to empathize with another person even if he tried. His entire argument this whole thread boils down to “nobody except this drunk guy has gotten hurt so fuck him and leave it as is.”

You’re a despicable human being. Your attitude of just let it be because it’s cheaper is disgusting. Human well being should NOT come down to a monetary figure. You’re a sub-human pile of shit.

You gotta love armchair engineers/lawyers, eh?

If it’s a “mostly safe” design then why was it able to crush the man 167 times with no simple way to shut off the device? That doesn’t sound at all safe to me.

This design was most certainly not idiot proof. If there is a gap that someone could conceivably fall through, then they definitely needed an emergency shut off switch. To argue that this is a good design is retarded.

Really, train platforms should be designed to ensure that even the dumbest person doesn’t accidentally kill themselves.

Nobody else has fallen in! is the shittiest argument you could possible make. Just because it hasn’t happened before is absolutely no excuse for not installing proper safety measures on a potentially deadly piece of equipment. The fact that you think otherwise is insane.

You’re an idiot. Just because it hasn’t harmed anyone else doesn’t make it a safe or good design. It’s dangerous and very poorly designed. It’s the only piece of equipment I’ve ever heard of that doesn’t have an emergency shut off switch. Any piece of equipment that has the potential to seriously harm MUST have one.

Because drunk or not it was clearly not his fault for getting crushed 167 times by a poorly designed piece of equipment.

It doesn’t seem all that hard to build platforms with only an inch gap. No excuse, New York.

Find it where? I’m sure the subway company doesn’t exactly leave 13 inch long steel items lying around. I say steel because wood would just shatter, as would plastic.

I thought Calgary Transit was shitty until I saw pictures of the New York subway system. Daaaaamn. I’ll take the CTrain any day over those.

Inevitably, “that will raise my taxes!” “it will make commuting harder!” “*Insert bullshit excuse here*!”

The problem is there’s too many armchair lawyers/judges that bitch and complain that it’s all the guy’s fault, he shouldn’t have been drunk, blah blah blah.

especially because my tax dollars will be paying for the award