Convict Sues Verizon For $72M For Allowing Him To Commit ID Theft

[NHDave]

Personal responsibility? What's that

https://consumerist.com/2017/01/04/c...mmit-id-theft/

[adriver]

If I was King;

Take him out of his cell,
SLAP him really hard, (he has not begun to rehabilitate).
turn him around and give him a swift kick in the rear,
push him back in his cell and close the gate.
Go back on with your lives


P.S. No desert for a month.



Back to my harem.

[longneckone]

It does actually look like Verizon is partially at fault. Maybe the clerk who handled the transaction could share his cell.

[ShanIAmVA]

What a precedent this is going to set if this even goes to trial! This is right up there with the Twinkie and Affluenza Defenses.

I give this guy one thing and that is kudos for having decent penmanship. Must be all the prison pen-pal letters he has written since 1985. Lots of practice.

[camaro69]

Feed him to the dogs.

[Severs]

I'm not surprised in the slightest. We live in a country that if you break into my house, and in the dark hurt yourself you can sue me for damages, even though you weren't supposed to be in my house at all in the first place. Why not sue the company you went through to commit ID theft?

Sad times.

[Unsettomati]

Originally Posted by ShanIAmVA

What a precedent this is going to set if this even goes to trial! This is right up there with the Twinkie and Affluenza Defenses.

People can file suit over anything for any amount.

And they do.

Acting like this has a snowflake's chance in Hades of going anywhere is melodramatic overreaction.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by longneckone

It does actually look like Verizon is partially at fault. Maybe the clerk who handled the transaction could share his cell.

Ya no such thing as personal responsibility right??

uugghh -- ITS SOMEONE ELSE FAULT!!!

[bpollen]

Originally Posted by NHDave

Personal responsibility? What's that

https://consumerist.com/2017/01/04/c...mmit-id-theft/

It'll probably be thrown out as a frivolous lawsuit. Anyone can sue anyone for anything. It's the Court that decides whether there's a legitimate claim in the lawsuit. I don't think there's a legal basis for the prisoner's claim, since security is for protection to the customer, not protection to the criminal for his own criminal acts.

He filed a handwritten lawsuit, which means no lawyer would take the case. He's reading law books, has a lot of time on his hands, and is making mischief and amusing himself.

[wawa1992]

WTF is wrong with some people? This lawsuit is the very definition of frivolous.