fun legal fact!

did you know that if you are the decedent victim of a tort, and you die mere seconds or minutes after the tort occurs, your estate can be handsomely rewarded for the brief interval of time during which you were terrified and knew of your impending death? a jury in NY awarded the estate of a child who had drowned $6 million, after an expert testified that the child struggled and was conscious of his own fast appraoching demise for aproximately six minutes. that's a million dollars per minute! nice work if you can get it. oh wait...

(pardon the gallows humor, but i'm just so irrepressibly joyful that my toilet is working again that even impending death and terror is kinda funny to me.)