Madeline
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We put down a deposit on a house in Cape May, NJ this past summer. We stayed there once before, great house, great location. A few days before our scheduled vacation we get an e-mail from the owners. The first floor of the house flooded because the water heater broke. They offered us a duplex in North Wildwood for $300 less. We decided to take their offer, as it was too late to get anything else. The duplex was small, uncomfortable, not as clean as the other place and not in the location we wanted. So, we should sue because our vacation wasn't what we expected? Please. They offered a compensation and even though it wasn't what we had originally planned and we didn't have as good a time this year, it certainly didn't ruin our life. And the situation wasn't anything the owner's could remedy within the time frame given.
You know, sometimes shits happens - - - things beyond our control, shit breaks. That's life. Doesn't mean go off and sue someone.
An offer of a free cruise in future will not make most of them whole -- they may not wish to take another cruise, or they may not be able to reassemble the family they had with them, or they may not be able to get time off work.
wtf? Carnival offer a refund and another cruise. The ship broke in the middle of the ocean and couldn't be fixed until towed back in. What exactly were they suppose to do? Like I said, sometimes shit happens. Ruin their life? Give me a break.
"Shit happens"? That's your answer? You Big Business worshippers just astound me. This boat was not struck by some unforeseeable event -- it has a design flaw and/or safety procedures were inadequate or not followed. Passengers have been injured. I have pointed out that to some people, the trauma may be permanent and I'd suspect few will ever set foot on another cruise ship (certainly not one owned by Carnival). Doubtless there are people aboard to whom this trip was very meaningful and who cannot recreate their window of opportunity to re-take it, for various reasons.
Your comparison between the homeowner in New Jersey and the multi-national conglomerate that owns Carnival is amusing but off-point. The homeowners did not commission the design of the hot water heater and did not induce you and your family to enter the premises, assure that you could not leave, and then trap you in a dangerous, unsanitary and wretched set of circumstances for any length of time. If you keep thinking that no corporation is ever responsible when it makes a mistake through negligence or malfeasance, Zoom-boing, you will help to create a group-think in this country that encourages recklessness by corporations.
Without plaintiffs' lawyers, we would not have safe cars, safe drugs, safe baby toys, etc. We owe them and their clients a deep gratitude that most of us have been brain washed by Big Business into altering to hostility.