soberkangaroo t1_is5pg69 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 2:22 PM

Reply to comment by -Coffee-Owl- in TIL at the end of the Top Gear US Special after arriving in New Orleans, the hosts gave their cars away instead of selling them as originally planned after seeing the damage from Hurricane Katrina by PrettyPinkPonyPrince

Are you American? Cause this has literally never affected me or anyone I know and I’ve lived all across this country. It’s a myth perpetuated by businesses to make employees and customers seem frivolous

438867 t1_is5wwmj wrote on October 13, 2022 at 3:13 PM

Ah yes, the covid defense. "I've never seen it so its not as bad as you make it"

soberkangaroo t1_is5xwci wrote on October 13, 2022 at 3:20 PM

Ah yes, the COVID denier defense. I saw Fox News panicking about it so it just be true

johnnyfortycoats t1_is5u7zh wrote on October 13, 2022 at 2:55 PM

America is a particularly litigious country. I have lived there, and in Sweden, in the UK and I am Irish. There is no doubt that the US tops those four countries in terms of its litigiousness and legal awareness

Xelacik t1_is5ws93 wrote on October 13, 2022 at 3:12 PM

I grew up in Sweden and I remember being in primary school like 20 years ago and hearing all these crazy stories about Americans suing over crazy stuff. The most memorable ones were a lady who put her cat in the microwave cuz it was cold or something and it blew up, so she sued the microwave company. And another one where a drunk driver crashed into a tree on someones’s property and sued them for planting the tree there. Probably no truth to these stories but its interesting that the “americans will sue you for anything” steretype was prevalent even then, in a small (population-wise) country like Sweden.

Front_Beach_9904 t1_it2qpbg wrote on October 20, 2022 at 2:46 PM

Pretty much everyone I know who has owned a small business has been threatened with/had suits filed against them.