Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decision

[William]

A friend of mine was the son of a "notarius publicum" in France. This is like a lawyer office and all legal transactions have to go thru one of these offices in France. There are only a small amount of them, an amount that the gvt. decides and whoever owns one of them is assured to be very wealthy. These offices can be inherited by the owner's children if they have completed at least second year at law school.

My friend was on his second year of college and had 3 months left of that year when his father dies and he can't inherit the family bussiness. The office went back to the gvt and was auctioned to a new owner.
That really sucked.

[miajag]

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A friend of mine was the son of a "notarius publicum" in France. This is like a lawyer office and all legal transactions have to go thru one of these offices in France. There are only a small amount of them, an amount that the gvt. decides and whoever owns one of them is assured to be very wealthy. These offices can be inherited by the owner's children if they have completed at least second year at law school.

My friend was on his second year of college and had 3 months left of that year when his father dies and he can't inherit the family bussiness. The office went back to the gvt and was auctioned to a new owner.
That really sucked.

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Could he still at least inherit the money his father had earned from the business while he ran it? Either way, socialism FTL.

[SNOWBALL]

miajag,

THAT IS NOT SOCIALISM

[Dale Dough]

That's a scumbag move by the government, not a bad decision.

[AquaSwing]

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Seems pretty straightforward. <ul type="square">[*]Woman hires Slimeball to sell stuff. (I expect he receives some percent of the sale price.)[*]Slimeball doesn't promote the auction, essentially bringing only his buddy to the show.[*]Buddy bids $0.01 for each item and wins.[*]Slimeball keeps his percentage of those pennies, gives the rest to the woman.[/list]
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<ul type="square">[*] Slimball's friends sell stuff for real price and PROFIT[/list]

[PorkPieHat]

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He missed a grounder.
Pretty sure it wasn't his decision to do so.

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My fault on this, I meant to elaborate but submitted before writing it, then forgot to follow up.

IMO, the bad decision was on the part of John McNamara to leave Buckner in the game (altho you could say the decision by McNamara to bring in Bob Stanley was worse). Johnny Mac should not have put Buckner in the position to blow the game in the first place, knowing that his ankles were bad and fielding prowess was hideous.

[NajdorfDefense]

All the friends and classmates who contracted/ died of HIV since it became BLINDINGLY obvious how to avoid catching it.

[luckyjimm]

An acclaimed novelist lost his office in Carson City on Thursday when he threw a lit piece of paper into gasoline.

Fantasy writer David Eddings, 75, said he was using water to flush out the gas tank of his broken-down Excalibur sports car, when some fluid leaked. In a lapse of judgment he readily admitted, Eddings lit a piece of paper and threw into the puddle to test if it was still flammable. The answer came in an orange torrent.

The fire raged through the garage and a quarter of the way into the office that occupies the lot next door to his home. His 95-year-old mother-in-law inside the home, came outside to find the juniper trees lining the driveway had gone up in flames, too.

Eddings said his intention to was to prevent a fire - he was afraid to leave a tank full of gasoline in a car that had gone kaput - but instead he did the opposite.

"One word comes to mind," the renowned wordsmith said as he stood in a pajama shirt and slippers. "Dumb."

The author of 27 novels, Eddings said the original manuscripts of most of his work were in the basement of the office building. But his biggest worry was about his fax machine, which is the connection between his home and his wife, Leigh's, doctor. Leigh, co-author of most of his writings, is unable to speak as a result of a series of strokes.

The loss of the sports car, which he bought in the 1970s, was a little painful as well, he said.

"It made for a real fancy vehicle, right up until it burned."

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/...NEWS/101260101

[Hellmouth]

I watched this [censored] driving like 40-50 miles an hour in a parking garage the other day.

I thought of this thread.

Greg

PS I also watched a guy doing a wheelie on a motorcycle on 95 north between Richmond and DC. He was in front of me and I quickly switched lanes. I just kept thinking that if he bit it it was going to guarantee that at least 10 cars were screwed.

[theghost]

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Drinking and driving immediately comes to mind. One of the best things to happen to me was a DUI the week after my 22nd birthday. Like a lot of people, I didnt make a habit of drinking and driving but I would on occasion do it. My Criminal Law professor made a wonderful generalization about the US justice system that is 100 percent applicable to this thread. He described it as a punishment lottery. Think of the times that many of us have been behind the wheel intoxicated. Imagine if a person were crossing the street, someone were stopped in the middle of the road, whatever. Next thing you know, BAM! You just bought a winning ticket. Your life would be catastrophicly changed forever. Because lets face it, there are lots of people doing hard time who are not unlike a lot of "good" people out there who made the same bad decisions but werent holding a winning ticket.

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Total [censored] [censored]. You know how to not buy a ticket? Don't drink drive. I'm not even the preachy type, but its pretty simple, if you can't risk the punishment, don't do the crime!

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I think that was his point - DUI was a wake up call and he's glad he learned his lesson the easy way instead of life ruin.