Egg Shell Skull

Egg Shell Skull
This is a shout-out to any readers who have taken a first-year law school torts class. Behold, the "Egg Shell Skull" scenario, as most recently exemplified in today's story of a woman who was waiting for a metro bus in Wheaton and cursing loudly into her cell phone. The woman was asked to abstain from her disorderly conduct, but instead she resisted the metro police authorities (who wouldn't???) and was forced onto the ground and then was handcuffed (can't we all just get along???). Little did metro authorities know that this woman was 5 months pregnant (the bitch set me up!!!).

This makes me all nostalgic for the glory days of sitting in one of the G-Dubya law school lecture halls for my first semester torts class. It is there where I learned of the idea of the "Egg Shell Skull." If you assault or batter someone, and that person happens to be pregnant, or a heart attack waiting to happen, or a stroke waiting to happen, or an asthmatic, or a diabetic, or a hemophiliac, or an osteoporosisatic, or a geriatric, or a sissy-atic, or a wimp-atic, or anyone with any type of condition that you were not aware of, or a person who is more susceptible to any type of injury by virtue of some hidden illness or pre-existing infirmity, then basically, you're fucked. You can be held responsible for all of the injuries that may occur, even ones you didn't know about, AND even IF the bitch set you up.

Class dismissed.