From John Lender, Hartford Courant:
Charla Nash, blind since a 2009 mauling by a chimpanzee that ripped off her face and hands, says in a video plea to legislators that her disabilities make her feel “locked up … like I’m in a cage.”
Nash’s legal and public-relations team released the video in advance of a General Assembly hearing Friday on her request that legislators let her sue the state for $150 million.
In the nearly seven-minute video, Nash says she hopes lawmakers “will allow me to have my day in court–that I will be able to have a judge listen to the evidence that is brought before him about the vicious attack on me, and that it shall not happen to any other person again.”
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Okay … So she clearly felt her FRIEND/BOSS should not have been able to have a chimp as a pet, but she still answered her friend’s “call to come and help return Travis to his cage after he had escaped and was roaming Herold’s Stamford property.” If she felt so strongly she should have had no relation with the chimp and never visited the house ever.
Thank you for your insightful comments. A-hole.
Bob, I second that.
Ditto.
Likewise.
*** Very sad case of a woman trying to be a good neighbor in assisting the lady next door to retrieve her chimp, which she had no idea would turn on her in that matter. No winners in this case, especially now that the woman will need medical and mental health aid for the rest of her life! The State helps many, and in some cases people who really don’t deserve or qualify for that help! This woman qualifies and deserves at least medical and mental health aid for the rest of her sad story life! Taxpayers foot the bill for many things good and bad, however this bill would be something that in the heart of any God-fearing person would be the right thing to do, no? ***
Mojo–Yes, a thousand times YES.