Italian Scientists to Stand Trial for Manslaughter in Quake Case

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garbon

#30
October 22, 2012, 07:35:11 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 22, 2012, 07:07:41 PM
I keep reading and re-reading this and still fail to comprehend how this verdict was possible.... :wacko:
Read it again?
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#31
October 22, 2012, 07:38:46 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 22, 2012, 07:07:41 PM
I keep reading and re-reading this and still fail to comprehend how this verdict was possible.... :wacko:
Italian legal system.  Only a genius could create a system that is so perfectly retarded.

Crazy_Ivan80

#32
October 23, 2012, 02:44:47 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 22, 2012, 07:38:46 PM
Quote from: Caliga on October 22, 2012, 07:07:41 PM
I keep reading and re-reading this and still fail to comprehend how this verdict was possible.... :wacko:
Italian legal system.  Only a genius could create a system that is so perfectly retarded.

They call tghat man: bloody Stupid Johnson
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Brazen

#33
October 23, 2012, 05:01:34 AM
They should have called the inadvisably spelled Labrinth. I have it on good authority he predicts an earthquake.

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#34
October 23, 2012, 06:00:38 AM
Quote from: Brazen on October 23, 2012, 05:01:34 AM
This is the fourth channel through which I have made this joke, and no-one's appreciated it yet. I guess they're not all down with the kids and their grime music like me.

Eh, I don't listen to hip hop.

Eddie Teach

#35
October 23, 2012, 10:19:42 AM
That sure doesn't sound like Tupac.
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crazy canuck

#36
October 23, 2012, 11:06:05 AM
Quote from: Caliga on October 22, 2012, 07:07:41 PM
I keep reading and re-reading this and still fail to comprehend how this verdict was possible.... :wacko:

I am not sure we are actually getting all the facts here.  Otto's post comes close to the news report I heard on the radio.  Apparently after the first series of tremors people in the village were very frightened because they live in such unstable houses and most of them were sleeping outside away from their houses so as to avoid injury if stronger tremors or a stronger quake occurred.  It was in that context that the reasurrance was given.  The report I heard did not distance the other scientists from the reassurance the way Otto has done.

Essentially the message was dont worry, go back to your homes, everything is fine.  Based on the reported evidence that reassurance was grossly negligent.  I have no idea how the civil law of Italy deals with such grossly negligent statements if they cause death or serious injury but based on the result I assume it is criminal conduct.

alfred russel

#37
October 23, 2012, 11:32:21 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 22, 2012, 07:38:46 PM
Italian legal system.  Only a genius could create a system that is so perfectly retarded.

Ancient Rome had a legal system that was the model for its age. I wonder what kind of government central italy had in the intervening 2000 years?
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DGuller

#38
October 23, 2012, 11:50:43 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 23, 2012, 11:32:21 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 22, 2012, 07:38:46 PM
Italian legal system.  Only a genius could create a system that is so perfectly retarded.

Ancient Rome had a legal system that was the model for its age. I wonder what kind of government central italy had in the intervening 2000 years?
:pope:

viper37

#39
October 23, 2012, 01:19:15 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 23, 2012, 11:06:05 AM

Essentially the message was dont worry, go back to your homes, everything is fine.  Based on the reported evidence that reassurance was grossly negligent.  I have no idea how the civil law of Italy deals with such grossly negligent statements if they cause death or serious injury but based on the result I assume it is criminal conduct.
but the scientists deny saying this.  The bureaucrat did say so, but scientists deny telling him that and there's no evidence they did, afaik.
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#40
October 23, 2012, 02:27:11 PM
Quote from: viper37 on October 23, 2012, 01:19:15 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on October 23, 2012, 11:06:05 AM

Essentially the message was dont worry, go back to your homes, everything is fine.  Based on the reported evidence that reassurance was grossly negligent.  I have no idea how the civil law of Italy deals with such grossly negligent statements if they cause death or serious injury but based on the result I assume it is criminal conduct.
but the scientists deny saying this.  The bureaucrat did say so, but scientists deny telling him that and there's no evidence they did, afaik.

Neither of us was in the Court room during the year long trial to hear the evidence to the contrary.  Also what was the evidence related to the scientists telling people the assurance was dead wrong.

Neil

#41
October 23, 2012, 02:42:54 PM
Exactly.  So if we're not in court to hear the evidence, always assume that the court got it wrong.  Lawyers are like journalists, only more detrimental to society.
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Barrister

#42
October 23, 2012, 02:43:41 PM
Quote from: Neil on October 23, 2012, 02:42:54 PM
Exactly.  So if we're not in court to hear the evidence, always assume that the court got it wrong.  Lawyers are like journalists, only more detrimental to society.

There's nothing wrong with journalists or lawyers. :mad:
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Razgovory

#43
October 23, 2012, 02:46:11 PM
Barrister would have prosecuted them.
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Neil

#44
October 23, 2012, 03:02:03 PM
Quote from: Barrister on October 23, 2012, 02:43:41 PM
Quote from: Neil on October 23, 2012, 02:42:54 PM
Exactly.  So if we're not in court to hear the evidence, always assume that the court got it wrong.  Lawyers are like journalists, only more detrimental to society.
There's nothing wrong with journalists or lawyers. :mad:
Not as people (well, not all of them), but rather professionally.  They just get everything wrong, every time.
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