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I would of wore a ski mask
4 San Diego firemen were forced to drive a truck as part of the parade. The annual gay pride parade. Their boss is a gay woman. Previous years the city asked for volunteers only. This year the woman boss forced them to.
Will you award damages? I think 4 million is a joke but i certainly give them some amount for damages.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/m...n30parade.html
Here is a picture of the boss and more on how it unfolded. Sounds like it was a gay male underboss who initially ordered the 4 to the parade. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont...m19parade.html
Last edited by Fabbs; 10-01-2008 at 11:01 AM.
I would of wore a ski mask
I thought that was a requirement for citizenship in Cali?
at least the music was probably good.
That is re ed. I would say they deserve the money. I guarantee that if it was flipped and it was a straight pride parade not only would they get that money but the one who made them would never work in any fire dept again and rally’s and crap would be going on all over the place. They deserve the money not because it was a gay thing but because they were forced to participate.
I don’t want to get started on the whole gay pride parade stuff and how dumb I think it is but this case is really really stupid.
Setting gay rights back 20 years.
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there, fixed.
I'm not a fan of large punitive damages being awarded to plantiffs. The more appropriate response would be immediate termination of the assistant chiefs. That San Diego has not already taken that step tells me that the city ranks political pandering to interest groups over the treatment of its employees. I guess that's not surprising.
Governor Arnold told them to...
The horror.All four said they were subjected to catcalls and forced to watch simulated sex acts. They said the three-hour parade left them with multiple ailments, including headaches and anxiety.
Probably a good idea to reprimand or fire the chiefs who ordered this, but a parade is not a workplace, and the parade spectators aren't coworkers. I'm surprised the case got this far.
If they had been ordered to respond to a frivolous call at a home in which a party was going on and most of the partygoers had been gay (and just wanted some firefighters to show up, provoking the call) and the same thing had happened, would anyone think the City would be liable?
"It was worse than being in a 4 alarm fire, your Honor. We couldn't take watching all the guys dressed in Village People outfits while we saw girls that were manlier than Jack Palance.All four said they were subjected to catcalls and forced to watch simulated sex acts. They said the three-hour parade left them with multiple ailments, including headaches and anxiety.
Our job is to put out flames, your Honor.......not join them. I have a massive $2million headache and I'm getting another $2 million anxiety attack right now just thinking about it......"
Pay them double-time and move on.
WOW your name suits you. That is by far not the same thing.
As part of any settlement, the plaintiffs are no longer allowed to use their jobs to pick up women.
$4 million for driving a truck in a parade they disagreed with? Fire the boss for forcing them into it, but they don't deserve a cent.
WTF? How is this and what happened even close to being comparable?
Fire the dike, double the pay of the guys, ez pz.
Seriously as manly as a fireman is how ed up is it your boss is dike? Jesus ing Christ how lame.
Dikes are pretty manly. One would think manly men would be able to get through this horrible ordeal without suffering $4 million worth of gay-induced headaches.
It's the workplace when you are FORCED to drive the truck. The people out there may not have been co-workers but the people responsible for making them do that are. They subjected them to that.
It would be the same if the captain or whatever was christian and forced them to participate in a church related event.
So the workplace is a public street?
The horror.
I got a headache reading this thread. Give me a million dollars.
Because of the nature of the parade the crew of the truck should have been volunteers from the start.
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