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Lawyers are causing societal ruin: $100M lawsuit filed against Fyre Festival
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:38 pm
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On Sunday, Fyre Fest attendee Daniel Jung filed a lawsuit against the organizers. His attorney Ben Meiselas, of celebrity law firm Geragos & Geragos, tweeted the first few pages of the suit, adding, "Refunding ticket price is not enough!"
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court, names festival co-founders Ja Rule and Billy McFarland, along with Fyre Media, as defendants. It seeks to be a class action, with the plaintiff estimating that more than 1,000 people "purchased tickets for, and/or attended, Defendants' Fyre Festival."
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"Attendees' efforts to escape the unfolding disaster were hamstrung by their reliance upon Defendants for transportation, as well as by the fact that Defendants promoted the festival as a 'cashless' event — Defendants instructed attendees to upload funds to a wristband for use at the festival rather than bringing any cash. As such, Attendees were unable to purchase basic transportation on local taxis or busses, which accept only cash. As a result of Defendants' roadblocks to escape, at least one attendee suffered a medical emergency and lost consciousness after being locked inside a nearby building with other concert-goers waiting to be airlifted from the island."
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The suit states, for example, "In addition to the substandard accommodations, wild animals were seen in and around the festival grounds." That's accompanied by an Instagram photo of two festivalgoers wading in crystal blue waters, captioned "#fyre is a huge shitshow but it hasn't been a total loss. I got to meet this swimming pig yesterday."
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Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
fricking idiots
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
I wish I could've gone. I would've had my own Haiti-esque strongman style tribal government set up by now
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:41 pm to SlowFlowPro
and some lawyers wonder why lawyers are loathed
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:41 pm to SlowFlowPro
I have seen better looking pigs walking around walmart.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:41 pm to SlowFlowPro
OMG just think of all the potential Instagrams and Snapchat stories that were denied!!
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:41 pm to Rouge
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and some lawyers wonder why lawyers are loathed
i hope you're joking (like i was with the title)
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
$100 mm is bs, but someone needs to sue the shite out of em. That whole festival seems like one big con.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
Swimming pigs are the shite.
I will be going to Exuma soon to swim with those porkers.
I will be going to Exuma soon to swim with those porkers.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
quote:of course
i hope you're joking (like i was with the title)
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:43 pm to SlowFlowPro
Compensatory damages... sure
Punitive damages... May be a little excessive... they were in paradise after all
Punitive damages... May be a little excessive... they were in paradise after all
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:44 pm to TheCaterpillar
quote:make the best bbq
Swimming pigs are the shite.
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:45 pm to Rouge
Someone posted this in another thread...
but people who paid thousands of dollars to see Blink 182 at a festival thrown by Ja Rule kind of deserve this
but people who paid thousands of dollars to see Blink 182 at a festival thrown by Ja Rule kind of deserve this
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:49 pm to SlowFlowPro
What happened on Exuma would have really chapped my arse, too
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:50 pm to TheCaterpillar
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Swimming pigs are the shite.
I will be going to Exuma soon to swim with those porkers.
EWWW
grats on the bubonic plague
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:52 pm to SlowFlowPro
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$100M...Ja Rule
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:53 pm to Winston Cup
apt response
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 5/1/17 at 4:54 pm to TheCaterpillar
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but people who paid thousands of dollars to see Blink 182 at a festival thrown by Ja Rule kind of deserve this
Pretty much spot on. This story is fricking hilarious. It's only right that the whole thing was a POS scam.
This post was edited on 5/1/17 at 4:58 pm
Posted on 5/1/17 at 5:11 pm to SlowFlowPro
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"Refunding ticket price is not enough!"
Based on the little bit I saw/read, I would absolutely agree.
$100M lawsuit divided by 1,000ish attendees means what, $100K each?
I mean, that seems excessive for time waster and pain and suffering considering no one died or anything, but I guess aim big and hope to settle, right?
Posted on 5/1/17 at 5:12 pm to LSUBoo
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but I guess aim big and hope to settle, right?
more like it's getting national news stories written about them. the attorneys are "celebrity attorneys" who love the attention
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