We have a Canadate for A** Hole of the Year Award

[TruckDriver]

This guys just ....  Well you read the story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_fe_st/spain_mourners_sued_3

Driver who killed teen sues for damage

MADRID, Spain - A speeding motorist who killed a teenage cyclist is suing the boy's parents over damage to his luxury car, the government says.

Enaitz Iriondo, 17, died instantly in August 2004 when businessman Tomas Delgado's Audi A8 crashed into him at 100 mph near Haro in northern Spain, an Interior Ministry traffic report said. The speed limit was 55 mph.

Iriondo was not wearing reflective clothing or a helmet, the ministry report said. As the sun had set when he crossed the path of Delgado's car from a side road, a regional court found both parties at fault and closed the case, the report said.

Delgado, whose insurance company paid Iriondo's parents $48,500 in compensation for their son's life, filed a suit in late 2006 to recover $29,400 in damages to his car and car rental costs, the ministry traffic report said.

"It's the only way I have to claim my money back," Delgado was quoted as saying by the newspaper El Pais, which first reported the story on Friday. El Pais said a ruling was expected next week.

Iriondo's parents were shocked.

"It's the final straw, a stab in the back," Iriondo's mother, Rosa Trinidad said, according to El Pais. "Before the lawsuit we thought the poor guy would find it hard to live the rest of his life with the thought of having caused our son's death.

The European Union's statistics office says Spain recorded 113 traffic fatalities per million inhabitants in 2004. The average for the 25-nation bloc was 95. In 2006, 3,016 people died on Spain's roads.

[Brock Samson]

Whew.. That's a relief I thought it was me.. 

[TruckDriver]

Whew.. That's a relief I thought it was me.. 

Hahaha! No, your just the weirdo of the year

[Ponch ®]

 

Whew.. That's a relief I thought it was me.. 

Me too....

anyway...yeah, let's call the guy an asshole, but if the car he was driving and got all that damage was a 71 Hemicuda, we'd all be cheering him on...

[69bronzeT5]

Weirdo of the Year .


That guy is definitely an A$$HOLE but there are bigger ones out there

[Mike DC]

 

anyway...yeah, let's call the guy an asshole, but if the car he was driving and got all that damage was a 71 Hemicuda, we'd all be cheering him on...

I don't think I'd be cheering him on even if it was a HemiCuda in this case. 

Maybe we'd make a few annoyed "dumbass on the bike" comments around here.  But I wouldn't go so far as to condone suing the boy's family for damages.  That's pretty bad.

   

[Charger_Fan]

That's lower than whale shit.

If the suit actually goes through, I hope the parents make damn sure to get their money's worth in damages from that car!

[Forza]

I could care less what the dickhead was driving. He was doing twice the speed limit and killed someone, then he sues for damages? Too bad this didn't happen in the U.S, at least he'd be getting prison time for vehicular manslaughter.