[UA] Re: Harrison Ford etc.

[Greg Stolze]

>I like the idea of people getting purposely lost to be rescued by Han
>Solo... I think I'll put that into one of my games.
>
>Just this morning I had an idea the UAbility of which I haven't yet
>figured out, but here goes:
>
>Stephen King had this bad accident last year or so - he was run down by a
>car. >Subsequently he used the time of his reconvalescence and the
>experience itself >to write the book 'On Writing'. Now let's say this book
>is a bestseller as is >any other by King, and let's further say that the
>person who ran him over >decides to sue for a share of the income,
>reasoning that without him or her the >book wouldn't have been written in
>the first place. The person wins of course >and gets millions of dollars.
>(Hey, the way the US-American judicial system is >portrayed here in
>Germany I wouldn't be surprised if that had already >happened!) In the
>wake of that people begin actively hunting down celebrities, >trying to
>hurt them badly without killing them and then cash in on everything >the
>celebrities do after they're whole again the moment they confess in
>>interviews 'The role of X in movie Y helped me to get over the shock of
>Z'.

Impossible.  (1) No way could this dimbulb yokel afford better lawyers than
King.  By the time king's lawyers were done with him, the hitter would be
saying "Gee, I guess you're right.  I guess I did kidnap the Lindbergh
baby."  (2) Juries love celebrities.  If Alicia Silverstone broke a bottle
of gin on a nun's head and put the nun in a coma, she'd still get off
cause, hey, she was so good in "Clueless."

-G.

If the reinstatement of capital punishment was clearly doing nothing to
reduce the number of murders in those states permitting it, it certainly
appeared to be cutting down on the number of confessions.
        -Dr. Douglas Ubelaker

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