January 27, 2012
Costa Cruises to Concordia survivors: ‘You break it, you buy it.” ROME—In a move described as ‘incomprehensibly inhumane,’ representatives from Costa Cruises filed lawsuits today against each and every passenger onboard the Costa Concordia at the time of its Jan. 13th crash. “Let’s say you come into my jewelry store with your family, and I’m busy in the back with a young Moldovan woman,” a spokesman for the cruise line explained. “I come out to find my store ransacked. You’re going to pay for that. I don’t care who did it. You’re all going to pay.”  According to a lawyer associated with the suit, all passengers will be asked to pay an equal portion of the $570 million dollar vessel they watched sink. As the ship contained around 3000 passengers, each piece of the pie translates to an estimated $190,000. For most, it’s an impossible sum to pay. “I’ll pull all my kids out of college if I have to,” one injured passenger lamented. “As long as this ship is rebuilt. It’s all that matters.” Historically, the ‘you break it, you buy it’ policy has been used in low budget television to make fictional children pay for large vases they’ve broken. Source: Opposite Of News. Original news story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/27/costa-concordia-passengers-compensation-settlement?newsfeed=true

Costa Cruises to Concordia survivors: ‘You break it, you buy it.”

ROME—In a move described as ‘incomprehensibly inhumane,’ representatives from Costa Cruises filed lawsuits today against each and every passenger onboard the Costa Concordia at the time of its Jan. 13th crash. “Let’s say you come into my jewelry store with your family, and I’m busy in the back with a young Moldovan woman,” a spokesman for the cruise line explained. “I come out to find my store ransacked. You’re going to pay for that. I don’t care who did it. You’re all going to pay.” 

According to a lawyer associated with the suit, all passengers will be asked to pay an equal portion of the $570 million dollar vessel they watched sink. As the ship contained around 3000 passengers, each piece of the pie translates to an estimated $190,000. For most, it’s an impossible sum to pay. “I’ll pull all my kids out of college if I have to,” one injured passenger lamented. “As long as this ship is rebuilt. It’s all that matters.” Historically, the ‘you break it, you buy it’ policy has been used in low budget television to make fictional children pay for large vases they’ve broken.

Source: Opposite Of News.

Original news story:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/27/costa-concordia-passengers-compensation-settlement?newsfeed=true


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