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[Charlie]

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/dani...-149758275.html

I think this deserves the biggest settlement in the history of lawsuits.

After days of being ignored, Chong said he tried to take his own life by breaking the glass from his spectacles with his teeth and then attempting to carve “Sorry mom,” on his arm. He said nurses also found pieces of glass in his throat, which led him to believe he ingested the pieces purposefully.


Chong said he could hear DEA employees and people in neighboring cells. He screamed to let them know he was there, but no one replied. He kicked the door, but no one came to get him.
By the time DEA officers found Chong in his cell Wednesday morning Chong was completely incoherent, said Iredale.

“I didn’t think I would come out,” Chong said.

He said when employees discovered him in the cell that they looked confused and nervous. A DEA employee rode with him to the hospital, where they paid for Chong’s visit.

He spent three days in the intensive care unit at Sharp Hospital and his kidneys were close to failing.

Source: DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student | NBC San Diego

[Dr. D]

$Texas.

[SorryaboutthatWh...]

I think people should lose their jobs and be held to criminal charges.

I'm not a huge fan of big lawsuits like this. It never sat right to me that a situation like this essentially becomes a winning lottery ticket.

20 million dollars? How does one even come up with a number like that? His medical bills were already paid, he's a college student so he doesn't have lost wages.

I know people will come at me for my opinion, but money isn't going too fix this poor kids problems. I'm not exonerating the guilty parties, I'm downright disgusted with the DEA and the situation, but this whole idea that being wronged in this country means you get money has never sat right with me.

If the idea is that it's a punishment to the DEA for their actions, again people should be fired and thrown in jail. Also, in claims like this, its not viewed criminally, correct? So it's not like a sentence being handed to the DEAs office.

None of us on these boards will ever ever ever see 20 million dollars in our lifetime, ever, so my question is, what is the justification for the large sum? Take lost wages, what's four years tuition there, about 40,000 a year? I went on the hi side and said he would make 50000 a year for 20 years which brings us to a million dollars, he'll you want to go 40 years? 2 million dollars.

2,160,000 and whatever his lost wages are. DEA paid for medical bills, and even if you factor in a lifetime of therapy your at what, maybe 5 million dollars?

20 million dollars is a completely fabricated number that has no basis other than, my client was wronged, but money doesn't fix the wrong. You want to award the kid something like a 6 million dollar settlement, I wouldn't bat an eyelash after everything I just outlined here. 20 million is ridiculous.

And before anyone says "you can't put a price on his days lost" well exactly, so don't make up numbers, and no amount of money is going to give him that time back.