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[BadKarma]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...nOPmPZpnPM#_=_

A Staten Island mom is making national headlines today after suing the city of West Brighton for $900 trillion, alleging the city improperly placed her two children in foster care.

The $900 trillion figure, first reported by the New York Post, certainly is staggering and the standard response so far has been to treat the lawsuit as something of a joke, focusing on the mother's alleged mental illness.

But I have to agree with the Inquisitr's Kim LaCapria, who says plaintiff Fausat Ogunbayo is actually quite clever in choosing to sue for $900 trillion. After all, how many people would be reading about this story and discussing Ogunbayo's plight had she quietly filed her petition without seeking monetary compensation?

Of course there's no way she'll get a settlement remotely approaching that number, if she is awarded anything at all. After all, the entire U.S. has an annual gross national income of just over $14 trillion. Or, put another way, if Ogunbayo was awarded $900 trillion she'd have enough disposable income to pay off the U.S. national debt several dozen times over.

Ogunbayo sued the city and the Administration for Children's Services (ACS), alleging that both entities violated her and her children's civil liberties by placing them in foster care in June, 2008. In her lawsuit, obtained by The Smoking Gun, Ogunbayo listed her grievances as follows:

"For causing plaintiff substantial economic hardship; for causing plaintiff substantial economic injuries; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff children's Civil Right, 42 U.S.C. section 1983; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff's children, the right to family integrity; for depriving plaintiff and plaintiff's children, the right to life, liberty, property and the right guaranteed by statute; for disregarding the probability of plaintiff's children, suffering emotional and mental distress."

The city has not responded to Ogunbayo's lawsuit but contends that she is mentally ill and unable to properly care for her two boys, who are now teenagers.The New York City Law Department released a statement to ABC News, which said, "We are unable to comment on pending litigation. The amount a plaintiff requests in a lawsuit has no bearing on whether the case has any merit and no relation to actual damages if any."

The state alleges Ogunbayo suffers from hallucinations, refuses mental health treatment and placed her children at risk by leaving them at home for several hours each day. Two of the more specific allegations are that Ogunbayo wrote to her children's former school, insisting that the FBI and Secret Service were after her children and that their skin was becoming darker due to radiation exposure.

However, the state Appellate Division recently threw out a family court finding that Ogunbayo was guilty of neglecting her children. "Proof of mental illness alone will not support a finding of neglect," the court ruled, according to SILive.com

Ogunbayo is representing herself in the case.

God Staten Island is like the Kentucky of New York.

[Eurell]

Suing for more money than is in the world is an awesome way to prove you are sane!

[hey]

placed her children at risk by leaving them at home for several hours each day

surely there's more...

[solanis]

god staten island is such a pit of shit. I took the ferry over there for a change of scenery while biking and it was super ugly and worthless.

anyway it sounds like she might actually sort of have a case, it's a bummer that she chose to demonstrate her insanity by asking for 900 trillion and representing herself in court. also I wonder what the real dollar value she'd be entitled to is if she won. ironically, it's much easier in economics to calculate the payout for somebody getting killed than anything else. go figure, dismal science etc

[ikariiiii]

God Staten Island is like the Kentucky of New York.

quoted for fucking TRUTH

[Guitarman]

little sadness for ya:

DALLAS (AP) — Diane Aulger was about two weeks from her delivery date when she and her husband decided there was no time to wait: Mark Aulger had only days to live, and he wanted to see his child.
Diane Aulger had her labor induced and gave birth to their daughter Jan. 18. When tiny Savannah was placed in his arms, Mark Aulger "cried, and he just looked very sad," Diane said. Mark died five days later from complications related to his cancer treatment.
The 52-year-old Texas man was diagnosed with colon cancer in April. He had surgery and, as a precaution, six months of chemotherapy, Diane Aulger said. With no signs of cancer showing up in follow up tests, the treatment seemed successful.
Then in November, Mark Aulger began having trouble breathing. By Jan. 3, he was sick enough to go to the emergency room. His wife said he was told the chemotherapy had caused him to develop pulmonary fibrosis, which causes scarring and thickening in the lungs.
Initially, the Aulgers were hopeful.
"He thought he'd be coming home in a few days with an oxygen tank," said Diane Aulger, who lives in The Colony, about 25 miles north of Dallas.
But on Jan. 16, the doctor delivered more bad news: Mark Aulger's condition was fatal. When Diane Aulger asked how long her husband had, the response was a sobering five or six days.
"Mark said, 'I'd like to see the baby,'" the 31-year-old mother told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Their baby was due Jan. 29, and Diane had planned a natural childbirth, but when the doctor suggested an induced labor, she immediately agreed. She was already experiencing pre-labor symptoms, and they scheduled the birth for Jan. 18.
Hospital staff arranged for the Aulgers to share a large labor and delivery room.
"Our beds were side by side," Diane said.
Mark held his daughter for about 45 minutes after she was born. For the next couple of days, though, he was so tired he was only able to hold her a couple of times for a minute or so. She said he slipped into a coma on Jan. 21 and died two days later.
"I brought her home the night before he fell into the coma. It was just me and Savannah when he passed away," Diane said.
Along with Savannah, the Aulgers have two other children, ages 10 and 7. Diane also has a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old.
With her family's story getting much media attention in recent days, Diane said she's been heartened by the nice comments she's received from people.
She plans to blanket her home with pictures of her husband and said her children are already doing a good job of keeping his memory alive by talking about him.
"We're living day-to-day as if dad's still here," she said. "We know dad is here with us. They talk to dad. Mark was a very funny, funny dad."

http://www.kgw.com/news/national/139187834.html

[Kerberoz]

She's going to feel terrible when the kid ends up with some chronic illness from being pulled out of the oven too early.

[Eurell]

lol maybe I'm being whooshed but 10 days isn't gonna do shit

[Kerberoz]

It probably won't. There will always be that nagging doubt, though.

[MaachaQ]

lol maybe I'm being whooshed but 10 days isn't gonna do shit

I believe there's also some debate about the process of being born "naturally" being beneficial, being pushed through the birth canal forcing fluids out of the lungs for example.

[zoobernut]

Inducing isn't a c-section. Inducing just means they gave her some medicine to push her body into labor. She can still give birth through the birth canal...

Also echoing 10 days isn't going to do anything, "due dates" are arbitrary and babies are born "naturally" all the time within a 4 week window, anywhere from 38 weeks to 42 weeks, the due date is usually set at 40 weeks.

That being said, there might be some negative side effects to inducing that we don't know about yet since it is a chemical/medical intervention of sorts but that isn't really based on time or the baby being "early" more that it is introducing medicine to the baby.

[MaachaQ]

Inducing isn't a c-section. Inducing just means they gave her some medicine to push her body into labor. She can still give birth through the birth canal...

Ah, I guess I misread the article, I thought that there was a C-section rather than an induction resulting in birth through the normal pathway. I believe I read somewhere that perhaps 25% of pregnancies are ending in c-sections in recent years due to mothers wanting the "schedule" their births and wanting to preserve their figures >.> Both my kids were born slightly past the 40 week mark, and it's true that over or under by a bit is not really a problem since it is very hard to exactly pinpoint the time of conception and rate of growth of the baby.

It's a sad story, but it is nice to hear that the father and child were able to "meet" before being seperated, and though the child won't remember, there will be stories and pictures to preserve the memory.

[Ragnus]

Man suffers heart attack at Heart Attack Grille

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ss-Burger.html

Diner suffers cardiac arrest while eating a Triple Bypass Burger in restaurant called the Heart Attack Grill
Paramedics wheel man in his 40s out of restaurant's Las Vegas branch
He was eating a 6,000-calorie burger when he suffered a heart attack
Triple Bypass Burger contains three slabs of meat, 12 bacon rashes, cheese, red onion, sliced tomato and 'unique special sauce

It was always going to be unwise naming a restaurant that glorifies unhealthy food the Heart Attack Grill.
And on Saturday the inevitable happened when a customer suffered a cardiac arrest in the chain's Las Vegas branch.
An onlooker captured video of paramedics wheeling the unidentified man, thought to be in his 40s, out of the fast-food diner.
He was midway through eating a 6,000-calorie Triple Bypass Burger when he began experiencing chest pains.

The restaurant chain - founded in 2005 using the catchphrase 'Taste Worth Dying For!' - is run by a former nutritionist 'Doctor' Jon Basso who, remarkably, used to run a Jenny Craig weight loss diet centre.
He denied the incident was an elaborate publicity stunt.

Mr Basso told Fox News: 'The gentleman could barely talk. He was sweating, suffering.
'I actually felt horrible for him because the tourists were taking photos of him as if it were some type of stunt.
'Even with our own morbid sense of humour, we would never pull a stunt like that.'
The Heart Attack Grill sells calorie-laden fare with names such as Quadruple Bypass Burgers and Flatline Fries.

Meals can exceed 8,000 calories. The recommended daily intake is 2,000 calories for women and 2,500 for men.
The Triple Bypass Burger contains three slabs of meat, 12 rashes of bacon, cheese, red onion, sliced tomato and the Heart Attack Grill's own 'unique special sauce'. And that's before taking into account the accompanying 'Flatliner Fries', cooked in pure lard, and a giant soft drink.
Accentuating the medical theme, waitresses dressed as nurses deliver the artery-clogging food.
A sign at the entrance to an Arizona restaurant reads: 'Go away. If you come in this place, it’s going to kill you.'
But the chain has provoked widespread anger with promotions including offering free food to morbidly obese customers.

In an exploitative advertising campaign, the restaurant announced that it would pick up the bill for any patron who weighed more than 25-stone.
Mr Basso hired a 46-stone man, Blair Rivers, to star in a tongue-in-cheek commercial promoting the special offer.
In the ad, Mr Basso says with a smile: 'I personally guarantee a stable upward progression of body weight while you're enjoying great tasting foods.
'Along with a cold beer and cigarette, it's a diet you can stick to for life.'
The advertisement then states the side affects from eating Heart Attack Grill food 'may include sudden weight gain, repeated increase of wardrobe size, back pain, male breast growth, loss of sexual partners, lung cancer, tooth decay and liver sclerosis stroke.
'In some cases mild death may occur.'

[Fievel]

Man suffers heart attack at Heart Attack Grille

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ss-Burger.html

Darwin pretty much sums that up.

[Kryssan]

That being said, there might be some negative side effects to inducing that we don't know about yet since it is a chemical/medical intervention of sorts but that isn't really based on time or the baby being "early" more that it is introducing medicine to the baby.

Assuming the use of a given particular chemical *cough prostaglandin cough*, I sincerely doubt it. In fact, depending on the method of application, one might even call it 'natural'.... haha. Outside of that... well, plenty of research journals and claims in that arena.

[Yuri-G]

well this is just plain fucking awesome.

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/iran-s-...903-slideshow/

[Howie Roary]

well great now I'm gonna think 'ninja' every time, cannot unsee

[Coren]

Because nukes weren't bad enough, now they have fucking ninjas? We're fucked!

[Xno Kappa]

ALLAH AKBAR!!!!!

[madpersian]

I've never before been so proud of my people.