Are Czechs getting the lawsuit bug from the TB bug?? / Cesi soudi cestujiciho s tuberkulozou

A $1.3 million lawsuit was filed yesterday against the tuberculosis-infected traveler Andrew Speaker. The suing party consists of 9 people who were on the same Prague-to-Montreal flight, of which two of them are Czech. In case you are interested, the ninth person in the suing party is a roommate of one of the passengers (pretty soon cousin’s neighbor of the wife of one of the passengers will be suing Speaker too…). The sources say that Mr. Speaker was diagnosed with a treatable kind of tuberculosis already in the US. According to him, however, he was told to “swing by the New York City hospital for further testing after his European vacation was over”. While on his honeymoon he went to get tested in Europe (why??) and the results showed that he actually suffered with the extremely dangerous, drug-resistant strain of TB and was advised not to get on another international flight again. Despite this advise Andrew hopped on a Czech Airlines jetliner heading for Montreal and later started his treatment at home, in a Denver hospital. The doctors currently say that Speaker suffers with an actual multi-drug-resistant, but treatable kind of TB and that the possibility that someone on that plane got infected is very low. Still, the co-travelers will sue Mr. Speaker for their “uncertain future” and for the “pain and the suffering that they have gone through”. The funny thing is that “Mr. Tuberculosis” himself is a personal injuries attorney and so what goes around also comes around….except this time it’s HIS butt that’s being sued and not someone else’s. And since he is in the same kind of business I am sure he can appreciate the fact that the bill amounts to – so far – only (!!) $1.3 million…

CZ: Proti cestujicimu nakazenemu tuberkulozou (let Praha-Montreal) bylo vcera vydano soudni zrizeni. Celkove 9 jeho spolu-cestujicich, z nichz 2 jsou Cesi, budou Andrewa Speakera soudit o $1.3 milion dolaru. Devata osoba je, zajimave, spolubydlici jednoho ze splucestujicich (a brzo Spakera zacne take asi soudit babicka sestrenice manzelky jednoho z cestujicich…;) ). MSNBC News tvrdi, ze pan Speaker byl diagnostikovany vylecitelnym typem tuberkulozy jiz v USA, tedy pred odletem do Evropy na sve libanky. Pan Speaker se obahjuje, ze mu doktori v New Yorkske nemocnici rekli, ze si muze odjet, ale at se pry po navratu zastavi na vice testu. V Italii byl znovu testovan, a tam mu bylo receno, ze trpi velmi nebezpecnou/nelecitelnou formou TB a ze by si jiz zadne dalsi interkontinentalni lety programovat nemel. Andrew ale na tyto rady nedal a nahopnul si na letadlo Ceskych Aerolinii, aby se mohl zacit lecit “doma”. V Denverske nemocnici mu pozdeji bylo receno, ze jeho TB virusovy kmen neni nevylecitelny, a ze pry my mel byt po mnoholekove lecbe v poradku. Speakerovi polucestujici ale z jejich zaloby neustupuji a to pry, podle jejich pravnika, proto, ze jim vytvoril “nejistou budoucnost” a ” bolest a utrpeni z toho, cim museli psychicky projit”. Co je ale sranda, je ze samotny pan Speaker je pravnik, ktery ve svem povolani obhajuje lidi, kteri utrpeli osobni zraneni ( tento pripad by byl pro nej jako usity). Takze si jiste uvedomuje, a dekuje Bohu, ze ho tito lide zaluji o POUHE $1.3 miliony, ponevadz by to mohlo byt mnohem, mnohem, horsi…

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19734910/