Houston Airport's Food Court
Sometimes bad things happens and there is no one to blame. Some how William Ogletree, a lawyer from Texas, didn’t get that memo. Ogletree was flying from Houston to Las Vegas back last December and went to the food court in Terminal C for some food. When leaving, he accidentally left his $800 black leather jacket, which unsurprisingly, someone ended up stealing.
Yea, that sucks, but it is a fact of life. I have lost a few coats in similar fashions (not $800 ones thanks goodness), but I didn’t blame anyone but myself. Ogletree on the other hand is threatening to sue the City of Houston, Continental Airlines and the food court’s management for failing to have “collected the coat, kept it in a secure place and held it for a reasonable time” until he was able to claim the jacket. The bitter passenger claims the defendants, “breached their duty” in connection with how they “manage lost and found items for which they are responsible.”
The letter written to the defendants, obtained by The Smoking Gun, shows Oggletree gave them ten whole days to pay him the $800 or they would also be burdened with, “court costs, attorney’s fees, investigation, expert witnesses and other damages.”
I am sorry you lost your coat Mr. Ogletree, but seriously get over it. It is not the city, the food court or Continental Airlines’s fault (I don’t even get how could come close to blame Continental — for not asking every passenger if they remembered their coats?). There are only two people to blame. Oggletree and whomever stole the jacket.
No official word if Ogletree ever got his money or his jacket.
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Unfortunately, this is a standard ply of attorneys. It is cheaper for the city to reimburse him for the jacket than to go thru the expense of a court hearing. They use similar ploys, too, to win other cases. For instance, my son was sued by a woman claiming he was the father of her baby. The case was filed in a court over 100 miles from his home. He drove and showed up three times. She didn’t and her attorney would refile the court date (my son couldn’t afford an attorney). He showed up the fourth time, but didn’t realize it have be moved to a different court. Boom, he’s guilty. He’s still fighting it, but even though his mom and I pulled together the money to get a court admissable dna test done and ponied up enough money to get an attorney. Now they are saying the appeal wasn’t filed before the child turned 4. So, guilty or not, he has to pay for some strangers kid for the rest of his life? Where’s the justice? Why didn’t they judge require a dna test up front? I no longer believe in our judicial system, its rigged by crooked attorneys – like there are any NON-crooked attorneys. BAH!
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