New Hampshire family sues SeaWorld, claims child who saw orca attack is traumatized

[moshquerade]

Seriously, money is going to make it all better. :twisted:

New Hampshire family sues SeaWorld, claims child who saw orca attack is traumatized


Friday, August 27, 2010

ORLANDO, Fla. — A New Hampshire family who witnessed the Feb. 24 death of a killer-whale trainer at SeaWorld Orlando has sued the company in state court in Orlando, claiming their child was traumatized by the event.

The family of 10-year-old Bobby Connell says the boy has been bothered by nightmares ever since seeing trainer Dawn Brancheau battered and drowned by a six-ton killer whale named Tilikum, according to a report about the lawsuit in The New York Daily News.

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment spokesman Fred Jacobs said the company had just learned of the lawsuit and has not yet reviewed it. He said SeaWorld was contacted in March by a lawyer claiming to represent the Connell family who threatened to have the family appear on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show if the company did not "immediately agree to a cash payment."

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/na...tack_is_traumatized/srvc=home&position=recent

Photo by Todd Connell, HO/AP (File)
This Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 file photo photo made from video provided by Todd Connell
shows trainer Dawn Brancheau and Tilikum before the incident in which the killer whale pulls
her into the water and kills her at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.

 

[MotF Bane]

Disbar the lawyer. And then throw him to Tilikum.

 

[highland145]

Let's see. Bobby has nightmares vs. Dawn being dead. F-n ambulance chasers.

No puns here.

 

[Newbian]

Toss the kid in the tank with that whale and let his parents watch.

Scumbags at their finest.

 

[dfuze]

Hope their lawsuit wins so I can sue mother nature for letting my kids see some wild animals doing it </sarcasm>

 

[highland145]

Hope their lawsuit wins so I can sue mother nature for letting my kids see some wild animals doing it </sarcasm>

You should shut the bedroom door.



Kidding.

 

[Newbian]

Hope their lawsuit wins so I can sue mother nature for letting my kids see some wild animals doing it </sarcasm>

Or the discovery channel during shark week. :biggrin:

That's got to be at least 7 figures.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Yawnnn..anyone seen my baba

 

[waggy]

Yawnnn..anyone seen my baba

I love that picture. the bear is like "wharrrrr! im going to eat you!" and the kid is like " what? oh hi. yeah whatever bitch"

 

[BrokenVisage]

One womans death is another familys meal ticket. Hope they get screwed by the lawyer and end up with less than nothing.

 

[PricklyPete]

For the love of god...I'd like to smack these people.

 

[Regs]

I'm suing Earth for rotating.

 

[LTC8K6]

He said SeaWorld was contacted in March by a lawyer claiming to represent the Connell family who threatened to have the family appear on Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s talk show if the company did not "immediately agree to a cash payment."

Extortion.

 

[Aharami]

screw them!

 

[BUTCH1]

What a joke, last time I went to the zoo a tiger came up to the edge of it's pen and took a huge crap right in front of me and man it stunk!, should I file a lawsuit for the nausea and tiger-crapping nightmares i had for months??.

 

[Newbian]

What a joke, last time I went to the zoo a tiger came up to the edge of it's pen and took a huge crap right in front of me and man it stunk!, should I file a lawsuit for the nausea and tiger-crapping nightmares i had for months??.

You should had responded in kind by taking a even bigger shit.

It's all about your "Stance of Dominance".

 

[ichy]

That lawyer deserves to get a brain tumor.

 

[BUTCH1]

You should had responded in kind by taking a even bigger shit.

It's all about your "Stance of Dominance".

LOL!, no way to top this one, it was truly massive and tigers are fed meat of course, the stank would have knocked a buzzard off a shitwagon..

 

[BassBomb]

why the hell would this desever $$ for "compensation"

 

[SP33Demon]

SeaWorld should be counter-suing the family for payment for providing a once in a lifetime experience for the brat.

 

[SunnyD]

Here's a hint to the family: Just keep your fucking kid away from Orcas from now on... problem solved.