Gunman's Mom Wants Worker Compensation

The mother of a man who went on a workplace shooting rampage and killed three co-workers before shooting himself has filed a workmens compensation claim, because it happened at work.

I should hope that workman's comp, like life insurance, exempts payments in cases of suicide.

Well, the question I'd ask first: what workplace was it? If the man was working with chemicals/ nuclear stuff/ other dangerous stuff, and wasn't protected from side effects, which caused a deteriotan of his personality and led then to the shooting rampage - the mother has a just cause, I would say. Not knowing the details, I can't judge.

They build heat exchangers. Nice try, though constanze.

If the working environment was unreasonably hostile, perhaps an argument can be made. Not sure if it's a winnable argument, though.

I could see a workman's comp case being made for physical problems, of course, and mental problems to some degree (assuming the mental problems are genuine and not faked). Perhaps if conditions had led the man to suicide, one may successfully get a workman's comp settlement out of that. But I cannot fathom that any working conditions justify a killing spree, and on top of that, a settlement for the killer's surviving family.
Just my opinion, of course.

It's a criminal case, not a lawsuit, but it is still frivolous.

Ohio man charged with exposing his breasts

"He's a guy. He's real tall, and he's got a full set of breasts," assistant Cincinnati solicitor Kevin Donovan told the Cincinnati Post.

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But public defender Michael Welsh said the charges really ought to be dropped.

"It's not illegal for a man to expose his breasts," Welsh told the Cincinnati Post.

"It's also not even technically illegal for a woman to expose her breasts (in public)," he said Thursday.

I'm not following here. Did he get implants, like that loser I read about in a magazine a few years back who lost a bet, or does he simply have gynecomastia?

(I've also altered the title of the subtopic to make it more inclusive.)

The article doesn't say, but if I haqd to guess, I'd say it was not an intentional* development (no pun intended), since his identity apparently male.† More likely either a medical condition or a side-effect of too much pot. Or possibly just flab -- Fat does tend to collect in that area after the more common areas are full.

* Intentional as in implants or hormone treatments
† If it were treatment and was advanced enough to have breasts, he would have already been living as a woman.

That reminds me of something that a topfredom advicate once said, remember them the women who want the women in the USA to have the same rights to expose breasts as they have in most other western countries? She said something to the effect of "The fact that I have to cover my chest because I don't have a ••••• when many men have bigger breasts than I do is rediculous".

Actually the quote was "the fact that I have to cover my NIPPLES because I don't have a peenis is rediculous when many men have bigger breasts than I do."

Pointing out the fact that the part of the female breasts that we feel the need to cover is the nipple, even though the roundness of it is usually what makes it diferent from a man's and what men find attractive.

Lindsay Lohan wants $100 Million from E-Trade.

She claims that "that milkaholic Lindsay" in a recent ad is based on her.

The U.S. Marshals are still looking for inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris, who famously escaped from Alcatraz in June of 1962.

Why?

If those men survived and are living now, all would now be in their 90's. Are they really going to throw a 90 + year old man in the clink?

Besides, it's not like they're wanted murderers. All they did was rob banks. Let them go.