Shaking Weenie Syndrome
In keeping with the Ameriweenie dream, illegal Peruvian immigrant Claudia Muro has decided to sue Tyco, the makers of video surveillance equipment. You may remember Claudia Muro as the nanny who was video taped violently shaking a baby in her care. She spent two years incarcerated awaiting trial while the weenie lawyers and experts attempted to determine if a time-lapse video tape accurately portrays shaking movements. First, as a former video engineer I can confirm that at 15 frames per second (which was the record speed for that episode), it certainly does. Second, the fact that it took the experts two years of squabbling to return an undecided verdict attests to the slow weenie creep prevalent in our courts today. And third, the fact that the accused can now sue, not the prosecutor or the arresting police department or even the parents of the child, but the maker of the recording equipment is complete proof that we have fallen off our collective rocker and fully into a pile of steaming weenie poo poo. Expect your next digital camera to come with a warning label requesting you don’t take photos of anything sensitive.
June 29th, 2006 at 10:00 am
I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s mindboggling the way that anyone can actually sue for anything. The fact that she wasn’t exonerated, but was basically deemed as inconclusive shouldn’t give her the right to go after the maker of the camera. This action will just perpetuate the suffering she endured in jail to someone else by clogging up the court system with yet another frivolous lawsuit.
Glad I stumbled across your blog.