Batting Cage Machine With Mind of Its Own Fires Ball Into Man’s Groin; Man Collects $1.2 Million
Batting Cage, Courts, Legal November 12th. 2008, 9:00am
Man goes to the batting cage in Florida. An employee, for some reason, told him to go and pick up the balls after the light had gone off and the pitches were complete. Randomly, the machine spit out a 60 mph pitch that drilled this man in the nuts. He was hospitalized a few days later.
Eventually, 19-year-old Lhyvann Felipe sued, and was awarded $1.2 million ($160,000 for his medical expenses, and the rest for pain and suffering). When you factor in the lawyer fees and taxes, though, he’s probably only walking away with $500,000. The Miami Herald should get in touch with this guy in three years to see if he invested this wisely or blew it on hookers and partying.
We’re taking the afternoon off to go to the batting cage.
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32 Responses to “Batting Cage Machine With Mind of Its Own Fires Ball Into Man’s Groin; Man Collects $1.2 Million”
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November 12th, 2008 at 9:02 am
What’s the difference?
November 12th, 2008 at 9:03 am
that could have been me
November 12th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Boy should have had on his Nutty Buddy.
http://www.nuttybuddy.com/player.html
November 12th, 2008 at 9:06 am
With stock prices being so low, this kid could invest this and be a multi-millionaire in ten years. I wish I had even 5,000 or 10,000 to invest right now…
November 12th, 2008 at 9:06 am
He needed to see if his junk still worked.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Happens to me all the time but I sorta like it.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:10 am
On another note, why is this kid picking up his own balls at the batting cages? If he wanted to do that he could just go hit balls in a field.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:10 am
good question about hookers and partying.
can you really have a party without hookers? and if you’re with hookers, aren’t you partying?
November 12th, 2008 at 9:11 am
very meta.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I say with at least 250k of that you take all your friends and everyone you kinda like to Vegas for a week. If you live, maybe invest the rest.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:13 am
ive been to plenty of parties without hookers but i have never had a hooker and not been partying
November 12th, 2008 at 9:13 am
can you really have a party without hookers?and if you’re with hookers, aren’t you partying?
Yes. and if there is coke involved yes.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
why does shit like this only happen in Florida?
November 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
can you really have a party without hookers? and if you’re with hookers, aren’t you partying?
That’s deep, man. Is that some sort of Zen thing? Was that in one of those books that Phillip tried to get Kobe and Shaq to read? Actually, it sounds like something that Irvin said that was quoted in the Cowboys book.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:16 am
“Only 364 more days until next year’s hockey try-outs. Must get tougher!!!”
“Oww, that one hurt a little but I’m alright.”
November 12th, 2008 at 9:19 am
TampaBo just gets it.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Not to go all lawyer on you but at least in New Jersey, and I beleive in all states, pain and suffering is not taxable, so take the 1/3 off the award for attorney fees, gets you to 800,000K Expenses of the medicals gets you to $640,000, expenses for the trial i.e expert fees, copying costs, etc another 20k tops, the kid should walk away with $620,000 clear.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Just wait until Obama takes office.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Even that is on the very high side.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Even if I was collecting my own balls at a batting cage, I still wouldn’t be walking in front of that son-bitch. That defies Rule #18 in my big book of personal rules that are based on the movie “Final Destination”, which is “Never put yourself in a position to allow a machine to act on its own and kill you”.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:22 am
@ted
Just a question, where do you put money gained from a suite on your taxes? Do you omit it all together or do you have to get a seperate form?
November 12th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Line 27 of your 1040EZ. Next question.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:25 am
What you really want to do is party with coeds, who won’t cost money just alcohol, but at the end of the night will be doing more for \ with you than any hooker would.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:25 am
that son-bitch
Happy isnt from Chicago.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:26 am
@ 1 Happy St - That’s the same reason I don’t store my canoe and swords on the ceiling anymore.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:28 am
What you really want to do is party with coeds
I have a problem with this what if your “partying” and one of them dies. Someone will miss a co-ed, a hooker…not so much.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Incorrect. Rule #7 in my big book of rules that have nothing to do with the movie “Final Destination” is “as much as possible, try to pay homage to the old white guy from ‘The Distinguished Gentleman’ who was also in ‘City Slickers’”.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:30 am
He don’t need no Robocop,
November 12th, 2008 at 9:31 am
He don’t need no Robocop,
The new Kanye is gay
November 12th, 2008 at 9:34 am
shit…I just bought a kayak and hung it from the ceiling of my garage last night.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:38 am
You’re so dead miz. Go home right now and take it down.
November 12th, 2008 at 10:53 am
I usually have to pay for shit like this