this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
30 points (100.0% liked)
And Finally...
1078 readers
186 users here now
A place for odd or quirky world news stories.
Elsewhere in the Fediverse:
- !weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan
- !offbeat@lemmy.ca
- !nottheonion@lemmy.world
- !nottheonion@lemmy.ml
- !nottheonion@zerobytes.monster
- !aiop@lemmy.world
- !jingszo@lemmy.world
- !forteana@feddit.uk
- !strangetimes@lemmy.world
- !goodnews@feddit.uk
- !upliftingnews@lemmy.world
Rules:
- Be excellent to each other
- The Internet will resurface old "And finally..." material. Just mark it [VINTAGE]
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Seems to me. The cause is more news worthy then the victim.
Surly he was not alone in drinking that water. Is the US military taking any responsibility for recruits suffering loss 50 years later?
Dose the loss of his toes give him any balance issues. Or is that mitigated by the previose incident?
Maybe it is somewhat regional since I'm on the east coast but we definitely hear about camp lejune lawsuits. It's not as crazy as the mesothelioma ones were back in the day but I hear about it a lot. And I don't even have cable TV.
there are constant ads on TV from lawyers looking for Jejune victims for a suit