NEW YORK (CNN) — A Manhattan jury awarded $2.33 million to a man who lost his leg after drunkenly stumbling onto the path of an oncoming subway train.

Dustin Dibble, 25, landed in the subway tracks after a late night watching a hockey game at a bar with friends April 23, 2006. A downtown N train ran over him, severing his right leg.

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Personally, hearing a story such as this one doesn’t make me feel “outraged”, but it really does bother me to know that all you have to do in order to become a millionare is be a top notch idiot. It goes without saying that Dibble is at fault here, but to me, not completely. Dibble did start the problem by getting his drunken ass on the train tracks, that’s a given. But the problem could’ve been easily evaded if the train conductor just stopped the train. You know, cause he’s supposed to? Cause it’s his job? That’s why he’s there? Let’s say the conductor wasn’t as stupid as Dibble and actually stopped the train. Dibble would still have his leg, would’ve gotten arrested, and would’ve had fines charged up his ass for his misdemenor. But no, the conductor didn’t stop the train like he was supposed to, hence why there’s a problem.

But is the conductor really “65% responsible?” Hell no! They’re both equally responsible! 50/50! One person started the problem, the other finished it! And does Dibble really deserve all that money? Hell to the fcuk no! Honestly, I think just his medical fees should’ve been covered, nothing more. He really only deserved to get his leg fixed and live the rest of his life knowing that he made a horrible mistake.

A majority of people will disagree with me and say it’s entirely Dibble’s fault, 100%. According to an AOL online poll, around 91% of readers believe Dibble is to blame. Honestly, people are only going believe that it was entirely his fault just because of the fact that he was drunk. Let’s say Dibble wasn’t drunk at all. Let’s say he didn’t drink that night but still accidentally tripped and fell onto the track. Would people still be blaming Dibble? No they wouldn’t, they would probably be blaming it all on the engineer, because that’s just what people do. They blame it all on one person instead of looking at the situation as a whole, which the jury was actually smart enough to do. It’s just that they were stupid enough to put an unlogical statistical number into the mix and screw it all up.

I can’t believe it, over 2 million dollars in taxpayer money, wasted on this guy. That’s 2 million dollars that could’ve used for something useful, such as education or research. There are veterans out there that lost their limbs because they fought for our country, and I don’t see anywhere near 2 million dollars in their pockets. Dustin Dibble is living proof that the system is still completely fcuked up. Here’s a video reply to Phillip De Franco regarding the issue. It’s basically everything I just said here in a nutshell. Also, what do you guys think of this whole entire situation? I’d love to hear your opinions.

Okay, so for most of us, the first week of school started. Some people are saying that it rocks, others are already getting tired of it. What about me though? Also, Sarah Palin has been picked by John McCain as his vice-presidential nominee for the 2008 election. Sounds great, but why are people scratching their heads over this? Could there be some kind of motive behind McCain?

So, a week of CTC has passed, and I have to say it’s whatever. The classes are easy, and I have more than enough time to do homework. It’s just like high school minus three days a week. Other than it being so easy, it’s just so boring. Most of the people are twice my age and it’s so akward. The teachers are boring for the most part too. I have an algebra teacher who cracks semi-funny jokes, a history teacer who can make you sleep without trying, an english teacher who sounds like the beaver from Winnie the Pooh, and a speech teacher who’s actually pretty… cool. He reminds me of my favorite grade school teacher, Ms. Meghan motha-effin Tully, who by the way is the freakin awesomest and can never be beat by any other teacher! The only thing is, she’s no longer teaching at KHS. And as far as I know, she’s gone back to Cali to get married, I think? Sigh… I’m going to miss her so much. After my noona (sister in Korean) left me to go do great things, Ms. Tully helped me get through my second half of high school. Simply put, she’s motha-effin awesome. Alright, anyways, back on topic. Other than that, CTC is bleh. My classes are only on Mondays and Wednesdays, so I don’t have to be there until Wednesday of next week because of labor day. Yipee, lol. But really though, I know I’m missing out elsewhere. I could’ve been doing bigger things right now. I really need to take my SAT one last time and apply to Aggieland ASAP. Man, as much as I want to leave this dump now, I know I have to stay for personal reasons. One more year just can’t seem to come soon enough. rrrgh.

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