Woman suing Canada because lips dont match passport + other news

salamat · 08-21-2009, 01:37 PM

NO RACIST

I lol'd at these 2 stories

Woman who was detained in Kenya suing Ottawa for $2.5 million
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0...woman_detained

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TORONTO - A Canadian woman who was stranded for months in Kenya over false claims that she was an impostor is suing Ottawa for $2.5 million for her ordeal.
Her lawyers and supporters are also asking for a public inquiry and apology from the federal government. "I was alone when my government let me down," Suaad Hagi Mohamud, 31, said Friday.
"I don't care about money. ... I'm only (going) to court so this never happens to another Canadian citizen." Mohamud, who was born in Somalia, was stranded for almost three months in Kenya after authorities said her lips did not match her four-year-old passport photo.
Canadian officials branded her an impostor, voided her passport and handed it over to Kenyan authorities for prosecution.
She returned to Toronto on Saturday and was reunited with her 12-year-old son after genetic tests proved her identity and the charges against her were dropped.
Her lawyers say they've been stonewalled by federal officials and believe the public will not see the results of an internal government investigation into her case.
One of her lawyers, Julian Falconer, called her ordeal Kafkaesque.
An inquiry must be called to investigate whether Mohamud's race and culture played a role in how she was treated, said Falconer, who represented Maher Arar in his lawsuit against Ottawa.
"If a Caucasian person had been in Suaad's position in Kenya, would she have received the callous and reckless treatment she did?" he said.
"We don't know the answer. We need someone to look at it and answer that question, because frankly, I find it hard to believe that a white, Anglo-Saxon person in her position would have been treated the same way."

Woman sues zoo for $50,000 over splashing dolphins
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0...n_lawsuit_odds

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A woman is suing a Chicago-area zoo for a 2008 fall near a dolphin exhibit, accusing zookeepers of encouraging the mammals to splash water and then failing to protect spectators from wet surfaces, local media reported on Thursday.

In her suit filed earlier this week, Allecyn Edwards said she was injured while walking near an exhibit at Brookfield Zoo, where a group of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins were performing, media said.

Officials "recklessly and willfully trained and encouraged the dolphins to throw water at the spectators in the stands, making the floor wet and slippery," but failed to post warning signs or lay down protective mats or strips, the suit said, according to the reports.

Edwards is demanding more than $50,000 for lost wages, medical expenses and emotional trauma from the Chicago Zoological Society and the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, which operate the zoo in Chicago's southwest suburbs.

The suit was filed in Illinois' Circuit Court of Cook County.

the_guvna · 08-21-2009, 01:40 PM

salamat = salamander

Genocide1 · 08-21-2009, 01:40 PM

I hope the first one wins tbh, second one made me lol

pvk162 · 08-21-2009, 01:44 PM

Of course its women who try to work the system and get money. That one girl is so pathetic sueing for the dolphins, does she really need a ****in sign to know that the floor is wet. What a pathetic excuse for a human.

salamat · 08-21-2009, 01:46 PM

Kevin Sorbo where'd your post go brah?

I was about to quote it.....but yeah wouldnt it suck because on your passport you smiled a certain way then the travel officials said "oh hey sir your eyes dont match the millimeter, come with us, we're gonna do a DNA check"

(asian)

DerekSuds · 08-21-2009, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by pvk162

Of course its women who try to work the system and get money. That one girl is so pathetic sueing for the dolphins, does she really need a ****in sign to know that the floor is wet. What a pathetic excuse for a human.

err the first woman is pretty justified actually

-Banksy- · 08-21-2009, 01:48 PM

ppl like this make me lose faith in humanity. may they all be molested by brian peppers

Penile_Dementia · 08-21-2009, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Genocide1

I hope the first one wins tbh, second one made me lol

x 2

636 HunteR · 08-21-2009, 01:54 PM

I hate sue happy ****s

Its an express lane to hell as far as I'm concerned. They ruin everything for everyone. They are snitches of the world.

droogle · 08-21-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Genocide1

I hope the first one wins tbh, second one made me lol

second one makes me rage. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

hope the first one wins though.

Endgame · 08-21-2009, 02:00 PM

yeah, first one seems legit

the second one, is borderline retarded,
entering an area near an overflowing aquarium, she is taking assumed risk
won't even make it to court unless she has a really crappy and desperate lawyer

Ricky112 · 08-21-2009, 02:01 PM

She can go **** herself

Heiber · 08-21-2009, 02:04 PM

i dont blame them really, 3 months in kenya would suck...

and that place definatly should def have safety mats if the floor is slippery and expected to get wet

Flashbax · 08-21-2009, 02:22 PM

she's probably an imposter.

nick66 · 08-21-2009, 02:26 PM

I was on the first persons side until her lawyer said if she was white it probably wouldn't of happend, not everything has to be about race you stupid ****er.

And the second one is just retarded, who would have ****ing guessed that the area by a giant pool of water with dolphins playing in it would be wet. The women should be put down.