How to make $$$: Drive a Toyota, step on the gas, call 911, sue Toyota

[ztlore]

Your 911 call will be recorded.

Toyota doesn't have anything to prove that you didn't step on the gas either by mistake or on purpose.

It's your word (innocent American) vs. Toyota (lying Japanese).

Big Bad Toyota will settle out of court.

How many attorneys are thinking the same thing?

[redwitch]

1. Beats robbing banks! nt

[madokie]

31. I don't know

I was reading that a third of the bank robberies in tulsa last year were never caught, thats pretty good odds for someone who is down and out anyway.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Anybody got a Toyota I can borrow?

[marmar]

3. This is ALL fabrication, right? Toyota is totally blameless.....

Wow. Just wow.

[yodoobo]

27. ALL? no. Some - you bet

Its pretty clear that this last event was a fabrication.

Clearly Toyota has a problem and that is why they are recalling.

But its also equally clear that at least one person has decided to try and cash a paycheck based on Toyota's problem by perpetuating a fraudulent event.

Toyota will pay deal for their real issues. But when people manufacture their own fraudulent attempts, it only reduces the credibility and makes it more difficult for real victims to collect.

[tabatha]

30. Apparently the recall news is inaccurate.

[LanternWaste]

34. I didn't see that implied...

I didn't see that implied, merely inferred. Seems to me the target (if any) is the get-rich-quick litigation scammers.

[Romulox]

4. Poor, poor multinational corporations. Those greedy plebes want money every time you kill a couple!

:rofl:

[TheDebbieDee]

14. Lol !

[Shell Beau]

Or it could be how to die.

[Romulox]

5. Oh, and accusing survivors, juries and gov't regulators of being racist? Mwah!

(making the fingers to the lips motion!) Brilliant!

[PVnRT]

6. ...

:popcorn:

[pnwmom]

7. There's already been at least one case of a man who is in prison

because someone died when his Toyota suddenly accelerated. The jury decided it had to have been his fault, even though there was no alcohol or drug in his system. (This was before the recalls; now the victim's family wants the "killer" to be released from prison.) I'm more worried about cases like that -- and the possible deaths -- than I am about Toyota's ability to defend itself.

The number of people who would risk killing themselves or others, in order to get a chance to sue Toyota, is probably low. There are easier ways to make money.

[TeeYiYi]

8. Whiplash is real...

...so you'd better get lots of money to make up for the misery you'll suffer when you get older.

Are you feeling dizzy today? Sounds like your moral compass may be on the fritz.

TYY

[dkf]

9. Well you kind of set yourself up for this sort of thing when you

don't do a good job of investigating nor fixing your product and let it go on for years and years with millions of cars affected.

Bachi.

[gratuitous]

10. Yup, everybody gets a pull on the slot machine o' justice

They have 'em in every courtroom.

Seriously, are you like 12 or something?

[fishwax]

11. it appears Toyota has brought this situation upon itself

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. No it was GM they crept in during the night and sabotaged all Toyotas

Just kidding!

[Maru Kitteh]

13. I'm almost certain this will be the dumbest thing I read today.

[upi402]

15. Recession buster!

:bounce:

lol

[Maru Kitteh]

16. Of course, we have to buy enough Toyotas first.

:crazy:

I will happily accept a donated Prius.

[upi402]

17. but wear a helmet! lol n/t

[flamingdem]

18. hahahahahaha !! That 62 year old daredevil really fooled the CHP he did (NOT) nt

[upi402]

22. humor

still humor

[Bluebear]

20. The day is still young, but I'm with you.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. LOL . . that's why I added the qualifyer *almost* - It is, after all, DU!

[Pithlet]

24. It's not even the only thread proposing this.

How sad is that?

[Hansel]

35. Expand the time frame and I would agree whole heartedly. nt

[KillCapitalism]

19. I could do that.

My wife has the Rav-4 with the 3.5L V-6, so it would be a bit scary.

Maybe I would get enough $$$ to buy American & get a Cadillac CTS.

[TexasObserver]

23. I think it's interesting that this meme has suddenly sprung up.

And is getting wide dissemination.

It's like new bs.

[Hansel]

36. Well, Toyota has non-union assembly plants in some very red states.

If they lose this battle they lose jobs, money and the politicians lose huge contributions from Toyota. I could definitely make a good guess where this is coming from. The same place the Tea Party came from. Lobbyists.

[TexasObserver]

37. If only they could fix cars as well as they can spread excuses.

Toyota and its agents, that is.

[Confusious]

25. This is the stupidist thing I have read today

50 people have died, multiple others have said it happens.

One person who died was pulled out of a lake the car had accelerated into. Still had both feet on the brake.

Right wing bullshit this thread is.

[Binka]

26. Yes IT Is RW BS Please Alert On It

And the other almost identical thread. Also started by a different newb. Alert Alert. Alert. Thank you.

[LostInAnomie]

28. I guess they should have thought twice about trying to cover up that their cars were killing people.

Fuck Toyota.

[dmr]

29. How to make $$$: Break the bank, collect the reward.

Most Americans have a good moral compass & would never do this.

Then there's Halliburton enjoying their corporate fraud /war profiteering.

WhatchaGonnaDo?
:shrug:

C'est la vie ....

Edit: silly something

[Johonny]

32. I had been thinking it would be a good CSI plot line

someone kills someone with a "run away" Prius...

[BrotherLove]

33. Don't all cars have a black box recording driver inputs and other stuff these days?