Intensifies 

“Your honor, I object to the use of ‘unexpectedly’ in the headline. It was expected to explode.”

If it hasn’t blown up after 75 years, it’ll never bl.....

Not the first guy to go to a dealership and end up in the hole.

If you have a hole on your property you have to cover it. That’s the law. It really doesn’t matter where it is or if you consider it “remote”-which is a vague and not legal term. Was there any signage indicating there was a hole there? Was there any no trespassing signs indicating that section of the property was off…

That’s odd. A deep hole seems more like a Nissan thing. Or Stellantis.

I know this dude wasn’t an employee but what the hell is the company doing with an uncovered 8' hole.  Like the fact that you can’t leave a hole uncovered should be obvious.  There are also pretty clear OSHA regulations about it:

It’s crazy that it took this long and that the first court denied his claim and sided with the dealer, I don’t understand how the judge could have agreed that he was trespassing since they while the property is private they are open to the public and claim they are pet friendly and are responsible for maintaining…

In my profession , any hole over 6" deep needs flagging, over 18" needs a taped perimeter, and over 36" needs a fixed barricade. Excavations over 4' have stepping requirements to prevent/mitigate cave-ins.

I mean.... mythbusters has done this years ago...

Torts professors everywhere are elated at this perfect new final exam question.

My question exactly.  I was taught that minors cannot enter into a contractual agreement.

If the child is a minor, how is her accepting TOS even enforceable, legally? I didn’t think minors could “execute” (legally at least) such terms...

There really should be limits on it. The power imbalance between the Large Corporation/Government Entity and The Individual Private Citizen are just too massive for even the illusion of any degree of fairness to exist.

They’re so long because they have to plug the loopholes all the previous lawyers found. It’s like the NFL catch rule; every time a new edge case comes along it has to be legislated which adds to the length.

Mandatory arbitration clauses aren’t a bad thing when they are negotiated between two sophisticated party. If Corporation A’s team of lawyers agrees with Corporation B’s team of lawyers that their contract for 1,000,000 widgets should be subject to arbitration, that’s a net positive. It keeps the dispute out of the…

I would be willing to bet if you dig into the TOS that literally no one outside of the attorneys who wrote is has EVER actually read them, that there is a forced arbitration clause in the majority of them, or something similar. I mean hell South Park called this out what a decade ago with the Human Centipad. If it was…

Meanwhile, at a nearby Hyundai dealership, the hurricane destroyed 12 new and used vehicles on the lot, as well as 660 customer cars that were in for repairs. 

Double whammy with the Port Worker strike, he won’t be getting new KIA/Hyundai inventory for a while.

I look forward to repeatedly trying to avoid these cars being sold by shitty dealers a few states away.