She’s got remarkably poor enunciation even for being on a fake TV network.

No, I’m afraid I don’t know who that is.

Featherstonehaugh.

It wouldn’t be surprising if the particulars were true, because child abusers tend to seek out kids from horrible circumstances because they are less likely to have the resources to stand up to abuse.

Okay, that’s an amusingly scattered response. The teacher should be immediately fired, because of the incredible depth of the humiliation she subjected this child to, but starting a GoFundMe page in response is just a step too far.

The Geneva Conventions only apply to armed conflict, so no, they did not literally violate them.

You are in touch with every single one of your classmates from elementary school? Wow.

Throwing away the girl’s shoes was definitely a stupid thing to do. But I’m not exactly feeling this as the WORST thing, OMG, that could ever happen.

He’s tiny and apparently pretty dumb, but Enrique Peña Nieto is cute.

I’m not the one who's upset because other people think I meant what I said.

Your point is that you think that hypothetically they could have defended themselves on the cheap? No, that’s definitely not realistic at all. Corporate lawyers and expert witnesses are very expensive. Period. Again, that may seem plausible to you but that’s because you don’t understand how trials work.

You said:

They spent $700,000 because if they had not shown that they were not at fault, the award would have been much larger than that. It’s not an option for a company to respond to a lawsuit by saying “Well, we’re right so we’re not going to defend ourselves in court” because that is not how the legal system works.

I fully understand that you think $30,000 is “not enough”; the problem is not that I don’t understand you, it’s that your opinion is based on you not thinking clearly about the situation.

Nothing’s stopping you from giving her however much of your own money you think her tragedy is worth. But the court’s role is to make responsible parties pay for their actions, and since the theater chain wasn’t responsible, no one should expect them to pay for this.

You spent that money fighting their much smaller settlement request. Apparently these people were just inches away from taking a $90,000 settlement. Instead you opted to spend $700,000 trying to keep them from getting anything, and now you want to bleed them dry to pay your bills?

That’s a bad comparison, though, because McDonald’s was knowingly doing something dangerous, something many other businesses weren’t doing. That’s exactly the kind of thing lawsuits are appropriate for.

Yeah, a lot of comments got disappeared somehow.

The emergency exits in the screening room are emergency exits and in any normally run establishment they are rigged to set the alarm off when opened.

But those doors are often open for several minutes straight at the end of the movie with a full house of people leaving.