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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,127 posts)
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 02:45 PM Feb 2022

Canadian Free dumb Truckers in Ottawa are hit with $9.8M lawsuit

After their GoFundMe campaign was seized on Saturday, the organizers of the 'Freedom convoy' in Ottawa are now also facing a lawsuit from a woman living in the country's capital, who has left her case open for other residents to join.

Ottawa resident Zexi Li filed a $9.8million lawsuit in Ontario Superior Court on Friday, seeking damages for 'emotional and mental distress', citing ongoing headaches, sleeping difficulties, difficulty concentrating and interference with quiet enjoyment of her home.

'The Class Members are living in daily torment caused by the incessant blasting of truck horns,' reads the statement of claim.

The lawsuit, filed by lawyer Paul Champ, categorizes two types of damages: the first, worth $4.8 million, for 'private nuisance', while the second is for 'punitive damages,' worth $5 million.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/canadian-freedom-truckers-in-ottawa-are-hit-with-dollar98m-lawsuit/ar-AATxcmK

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Canadian Free dumb Truckers in Ottawa are hit with $9.8M lawsuit (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2022 OP
Good news. I hope videos recorded lots of license numbers. Karadeniz Feb 2022 #1
K & R Budi Feb 2022 #2
Expensive lesson Busterscruggs Feb 2022 #3
Hey, you got a lollipop? What gives? Ray Bruns Feb 2022 #11
i know, right? all i got was a loser "band-aid" orleans Feb 2022 #14
It didn't have smurfs on it? Busterscruggs Feb 2022 #19
Mine had smurfs flying rabbit Feb 2022 #21
Mine had instructions for the improved 5G coverage I was getting. Probatim Feb 2022 #24
How is it Busterscruggs Feb 2022 #25
All promises and no performance. Even with the booster. Probatim Feb 2022 #26
That gofundme page would have covered it. Oh well lame54 Feb 2022 #4
the right to protest ends when the right to peace is violated cadoman Feb 2022 #5
Oh you can disturb peace with a protest, but not hold hostage residents and businesses Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #16
Glad they Busterscruggs Feb 2022 #27
Well I wonder if the ones in Wa state will reconsider thinkingagain Feb 2022 #6
Shelton? Bump in the road Shelton? Thanks cbabe Feb 2022 #9
Zexi Li can probably cite hundreds of counts breaking noise ordinances, too. ancianita Feb 2022 #7
Open and shut case! gristy Feb 2022 #8
I was reading about Insurance issues for the participants. Gore1FL Feb 2022 #10
that's interesting. i wonder if it is correct orleans Feb 2022 #13
interesting thread and connected to some other ones too.They have legal tools to work ZonkerHarris Feb 2022 #15
the same would apply to THEIR RIGS coverage. Captain Zero Feb 2022 #18
I hope they are pulling CDLs or whatever the Canadian equivalent is. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2022 #23
Just when Truckers had America's empathy BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #12
#FluTruxKlan #omicronvoy L. Coyote Feb 2022 #17
How much money is in their GoFundMe? Emile Feb 2022 #20
+1. BeckyDem Feb 2022 #22
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
2. K & R
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 02:53 PM
Feb 2022

This should be interesting to watch how many others join in her lawsuit & create their own like hers, all across Canada.




cadoman

(792 posts)
5. the right to protest ends when the right to peace is violated
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 03:05 PM
Feb 2022

I think Zexi's lawsuit will go very well and I wish them well! Get that GoFundMe money locked down pronto.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,027 posts)
16. Oh you can disturb peace with a protest, but not hold hostage residents and businesses
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:37 PM
Feb 2022

They made their point long ago and must go home yesterday, if not sooner.

Gore1FL

(21,146 posts)
10. I was reading about Insurance issues for the participants.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 04:49 PM
Feb 2022

I have no idea how credible an approach this is. There is a bit of a thread from her if you follow this tweet.


orleans

(34,070 posts)
13. that's interesting. i wonder if it is correct
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 04:58 PM
Feb 2022

i mean, you're getting insurance for a truck used for work--not for fucking off and going to hang out with other truckers to stir up crap on a friday night. (that's why they have pick up trucks)

ZonkerHarris

(24,238 posts)
15. interesting thread and connected to some other ones too.They have legal tools to work
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:28 PM
Feb 2022

with to get to the truckers but are not using them

Captain Zero

(6,821 posts)
18. the same would apply to THEIR RIGS coverage.
Sun Feb 6, 2022, 05:42 PM
Feb 2022

Their comprehensive probably doesn't cover riot or domestic disturbance instances. Especially if THEY are causing the riot or disturbance.

They could be finding out soon what it means to live in interesting times.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,334 posts)
23. I hope they are pulling CDLs or whatever the Canadian equivalent is.
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 01:03 PM
Feb 2022

These clowns shouldn’t be licensed if they are going to use these big rigs as weapons.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
22. +1.
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 12:43 PM
Feb 2022

I have to wonder what these people will tell their grandchildren in the years to come. I did everything in my power to keep a deadly pandemic alive?

Incredible.

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