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Dec. 7th, 2005 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqThere is an interesting case listed on my Page-a-Day calendar.
Judith Richardson Haimes sued the Temple University Hospital claiming to have had psychic abilities until a CAT scan at the Philadelphia hospital "destroyed her powers." She said that the hospital's negligence left her unable to ply her trade as a clairvoyant. Amazingly enough, the jury awarded her nearly $1m, but (fortunately) the judge disagreed and threw out the verdict.
I have to side with the judge on this one. If she'd been a true psychic she'd have seen it coming in the first place.
Speaking of supernatural powers of observation... I wish I'd paid closer attention to this shirt when I put it on this morning. I just discovered that one the more critical buttons is hanging by a thread. I'm hoping that it can hang on until I get home from work tonight. I've become fairly adept at sewing on buttons lately. I'm tempted to buy a little sewing kit for the office so that I can make spot repairs when I discover things like this at work. I used to keep a sewing kit in my office briefcase, but I forgot that it was in there and took a recent business flight to Calgary...
The scissors that I had in my sewing kit were smaller, blunter, and less offencive than the ones in the picture above but apparently they were too dangerous for the return flight. I guess they were afraid that I might wield them in an aggressive manner and threaten to trim somebody's nose hairs if they weren't confiscated. I suppose I might have if I was clinically insane, but at the price that they charge for watered-down drinks on flights these days, it's not likely that I was going to get drunk and start air raging.
They let me keep my long, sharp, metal pen though.
If the terrorists managed to do only one thing, it was to turn our society even more stupid.
Judith Richardson Haimes sued the Temple University Hospital claiming to have had psychic abilities until a CAT scan at the Philadelphia hospital "destroyed her powers." She said that the hospital's negligence left her unable to ply her trade as a clairvoyant. Amazingly enough, the jury awarded her nearly $1m, but (fortunately) the judge disagreed and threw out the verdict.
I have to side with the judge on this one. If she'd been a true psychic she'd have seen it coming in the first place.
Speaking of supernatural powers of observation... I wish I'd paid closer attention to this shirt when I put it on this morning. I just discovered that one the more critical buttons is hanging by a thread. I'm hoping that it can hang on until I get home from work tonight. I've become fairly adept at sewing on buttons lately. I'm tempted to buy a little sewing kit for the office so that I can make spot repairs when I discover things like this at work. I used to keep a sewing kit in my office briefcase, but I forgot that it was in there and took a recent business flight to Calgary...
The scissors that I had in my sewing kit were smaller, blunter, and less offencive than the ones in the picture above but apparently they were too dangerous for the return flight. I guess they were afraid that I might wield them in an aggressive manner and threaten to trim somebody's nose hairs if they weren't confiscated. I suppose I might have if I was clinically insane, but at the price that they charge for watered-down drinks on flights these days, it's not likely that I was going to get drunk and start air raging.
They let me keep my long, sharp, metal pen though.
If the terrorists managed to do only one thing, it was to turn our society even more stupid.
