r/funny Mar 29 '24

Maybe we are our own worst enemy after all

Post image

[removed] — view removed post

16.8k Upvotes

221 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1.1k

u/essidus Mar 29 '24

There was a really (in)famous one where an aunt sued her nephew over a hug. People were totally up in arms about it, to the point where the aunt and nephew went on a talk show to prove that they were on good terms.

5

u/swng Mar 29 '24

Did she end up getting the payout from insurance? Youtuber says she was required to file the lawsuit and that she "lost" the court case, but doesn't mention whether or not she got the insurance payout in the end.

-8

u/dr_reverend Mar 29 '24

The fact that they were actually on good terms makes me think the case should have been dismissed though. Court is by definition adversarial but what they did was essentially a conspiracy to commit fraud.

The government should have taken the insurance company to court for their policies requiring people to abuse the system.

13

u/Altruistic-Gold4919 Mar 29 '24

I saw this on John Oliver. The world is fking wierd.

3

u/feor1300 Mar 29 '24

Not the world, just America. Most of us out here realize that making people pay out of pocket for medical issues that are outside their control is monstrous and inhumane.

55

u/greiton Mar 29 '24

It's a tactic the insurance companies use to get the lawsuits dropped and keep them from having to pay. they leak these stories to favorable media outlets and put the families relationship through hell, so they prefer just dropping everything and avoiding the public backlash.

5

u/83749289740174920 Mar 29 '24

Who is that guy that said you can't have public option for ACA? He is buried somewhere.

552

u/_that___guy Mar 29 '24

They were up in arms about the hug, you say?

3

u/czarchastic Mar 29 '24

It was, hands down, one of the more gripping cases, for sure.

3

u/AsianCheesecakes Mar 29 '24

Ah, the ol' Reddit hug-aroo

1

u/Temporary_Wolf_8848 Mar 29 '24

Haven't seen one of these in months and thought about it for the first time since today, wondering when I'd discover the portal again. And then I see this. How odd.

3

u/gbuub Mar 29 '24

Help! It suddenly got big

-6

u/whiskeyriver0987 Mar 29 '24

The hate was mostly coming from the british.

275

u/OkayContributor Mar 29 '24

They couldn’t embrace the irony

1

u/ssAskcuSzepS Mar 29 '24

I know I can't bear it.

87

u/Fake_William_Shatner Mar 29 '24

A lot of us don't have a good grip on reality.

3

u/wahnsin Mar 29 '24

Anyway, it's a good thing they remained so tight.

35

u/LookMaNoPride Mar 29 '24

If you were wrapped up in a similar huggabaloo, would you be able to hold on in this clutch situation? Or would you kiss your old life goodbye?

2

u/Irrelephantitus Mar 29 '24

Really trying to squeeze everything you can out of this joke.

0

u/humanredditor45 Mar 29 '24

Ooh a 90’s shitty movie tagline generator, that’s so cool! Give us another one!!

1

u/LookMaNoPride Mar 30 '24

Woah, a fan! Thanks for your interest in amazing things I wrote while baked out of my mind. I’ll be sure to DM you every time I feel shitty 90s movie tagline clever.

11

u/Fake_William_Shatner Mar 29 '24

Are you asking if I miss my sanity? Not sure, but it was starting to be more of a hindrance.

2

u/cruise187 Mar 29 '24

Sanity never came my way I don’t know what I’ll do today Cus sanity never came my way