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.
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.