<p>Film majored, Jesse Maiman, realized he probably wouldn’t be able to find a job, got litigious. </p>
<p>[The</a> Associated Press: Yale student sues airline for $1M over lost Xbox](<a href=“http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifdF09e15CC3dHlh2-Yy9ir5zhswD96RS2F02]The”>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ifdF09e15CC3dHlh2-Yy9ir5zhswD96RS2F02)</p>
<p>It sounds like he’s partly doing it just to see if he can get away with it, I don’t doubt there are a lot of people like that at many schools. even “elite” ones.</p>
<p>I’d say that these are exactly the type of people that get into Yale.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>I was reading in the newspaper today about the crazy amounts of money people get in NYC for *tripping<a href=“not%20even%20actually%20falling%20down”>/i</a> on a sidewalk.
It ranged from $1.65 million to $800,000.</p>
<p>High SAT scores, great extracurriculars and a wicked GPA</p>
<p>I’d say that these are exactly the type of people that get into Yale.</p>
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whoa that’s crazy…did they slip over snow or something? even then, it’s stupid…if you trip, all you deserve is a bit of help getting up, nothing more.</p>
<p>I don’t think you guys understand that you’re supposed to sue for the maximum when you file. It’s a bargaining technique, and it’s incredibly common in practice. I really doubt that the kid believes he’s going to get the million - this is pretty standard.</p>
<p>I read that and thought to myself, yeah I could see myself doing that.</p>