What Is a Tort?

Re:What Is a Tort? by tptacek on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:11PM (#47341947)

"The scales startled a sleeping cat inside the station. The cat lept in alarm, claws bared, and clung to a length of cord. Suspended by the cord was a small anvil, dangling above a board balanced atop a saw horse. Frayed from the cat's claws, the cord severed, and the anvil plunged towards one end of the board. On the other end of that board was a marble..."

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Re:What Is a Tort? by DebtDeflation on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:25PM (#47342175)

This comment brought me back in time 40+ years to a Saturday morning perched in front of our TV. Thank you.

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Re:What Is a Tort? by rzzzt on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:00PM (#47342717)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnzLconK4Tw&t=73s

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Re:What Is a Tort? by behehebd on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:24PM (#47342160)

Sue the enthusiastic butterfly in 2004

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Re:What Is a Tort? by pseudohadamard on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:39PM (#47345701)

Now when the bricks had fallen from the barrel to the floor

I then outweighed the barrel and I started down once more

I clung on tightly to the rope, and sped toward the ground --

And landed on the broken bricks a-lying all around.

I lay there groaning on the ground and thought I'd passed the worst

When the barrel hit the pulley wheel, and then the bottom burst

A shower of bricks came down on me, 'twas then I gave up hope

And lying there upon the ground, I let go the bloody rope.

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