Good Deed Goes Punished

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

The issue here is with the scumbag plaintiff, not with the court's ruling. You can't legislate decency.

Exactly. That's the shame of it all.

Let me pose this hypothetical. Suppose the legislature passes a law which essentially says, "No one can ever be liable for coming to the aid of another, regardless of whether they acted negligently." Then suppose a little boy's arm gets stuck inside of a soda machine and some nutjob decides he has to "rescue" the boy and get his arm out of the machine. So, said nutjob cuts the boy's arm off and calls 911. A blanket rule providing total immunity for "rescuers" would protect said nutjob from civil liability. Does that sound fair?

Of course not. So, the legislature provided a middle course. Let a jury determine whether a rescuer should have to pay or not.