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BP paying out to the average fisherman
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:00 pm
At work today. A few guys were talking about BP paying out at least 3000 to anyone in Louisiana who had a fishing license. Any one hear about this??
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Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:02 pm to TigerGEAUX88
Heard about it. Not sure if true.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:04 pm to TigerGEAUX88
Anybody who takes money from BP who wasn't affected is a piece of shite.
Taking a check for $3k just because I have a fishing license is very shitty.
Taking a check for $3k just because I have a fishing license is very shitty.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:04 pm to TigerGEAUX88
I would say that's definitely not true
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:05 pm to StrongBackWeakMind
I know a guy in North Alabama who had some rental property that made a nose dive durring the BP mess. It was totally unrelated to the oil spill but it met the agreed upon criteria. He got a check for $92000.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:15 pm to TigerGEAUX88
This same rumor went around a couple years ago and it was total bs.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:34 pm to REB BEER
I think there is some truth to rumor. I have a worthless piece of shite cousin bragging about filling out paper work. Evidently, BP screwed up his recreational fishing and crabbing. Even after being called out and ridiculed by my dad and uncles - he's sticking to his story.
He never mentioned an amount though.
He never mentioned an amount though.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:43 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Agree. Complete BS.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:46 pm to StrongBackWeakMind
My father in law lives on Bayou Lacroix in Bay Saint Louis...He's all pissed off that some of his neighbors filed and got paid because their recreational fishing and crabbing off their piers was supposedly messed up...
note: most got getting around $3k
but they are cashing checks that release BP from any and all future liability from anything spill related...so if hazardous chemicals have been found to seep into their property years down the road they don't have a leg to stand on if such a thing devalues their property or even renders it useless...
Stupid move on their part in my opinion...all for a quick payout.
note: most got getting around $3k
but they are cashing checks that release BP from any and all future liability from anything spill related...so if hazardous chemicals have been found to seep into their property years down the road they don't have a leg to stand on if such a thing devalues their property or even renders it useless...
Stupid move on their part in my opinion...all for a quick payout.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:48 pm to REB BEER
I highly doubt this is true.
However, it is a great opportunity for us to shun those who are worthless shitbags who would take $3000 for nothing.
However, it is a great opportunity for us to shun those who are worthless shitbags who would take $3000 for nothing.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:52 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
There was an article on Nola or lasm about a couple who was recently busted for filing claims under a fake fishing license from 2010, so there may be some truth to it.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:53 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:
However, it is a great opportunity for us to shun those who are worthless shitbags who would take $3000 for nothing
Wow...this is the first time we agree on something in the past 24 hours
ordering my .22 life sticker for the back window of my new truck as we speak
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:54 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:
Anybody who takes money from BP who wasn't affected is a piece of shite.
Taking a check for $3k just because I have a fishing license is very shitty.
What if you use the money to hoard fishing baits?
This post was edited on 5/13/15 at 8:55 pm
Posted on 5/13/15 at 9:20 pm to wickowick
Get the claim money and donate it back into coastal conservation.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 9:54 pm to TigerGEAUX88
I believe it's only for subsistence fishing, not recreational.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 10:15 pm to TigerGEAUX88
I bought my saltwater license that year and didn't get to go because of the spill. It deprived me of money I spent on a license and my family had to go without fish that winter. Think I have a case?
Posted on 5/13/15 at 10:29 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
All dis eeeeerrrlllll on ma skrimp
Posted on 5/14/15 at 12:42 am to jimbeam
If you delayed fishing until late 2011 more like 26k. 3-5k if you went back fishing in 2010. If you are afraid of filing a claim against those bastards you need to read a lot more. They deserve everything bad thing that can happen to them. They were on probation for Texas City Explosion when this happened. Found guilty of negligent manslaughter on that one and killing a dozen Americans; THEY HAVE KILLED WAY MORE AMERICANS THAN ISIS BTW. What happens when a person on parole kills more people. All the majors dont call them bastard petroleum for nothing.
But all those people that could not use their camps or new boats are entitled to be paid just like all the bullshite money to the states which will be wasted on every bullshite project you can imagine.
frick BP and the dead dophins they rode in on. I hope they rot in hell.
But all those people that could not use their camps or new boats are entitled to be paid just like all the bullshite money to the states which will be wasted on every bullshite project you can imagine.
frick BP and the dead dophins they rode in on. I hope they rot in hell.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 2:57 am to TigerGEAUX88
I don't know about the average fishing license holder but BP entered into a lenient compensation program which has led to this fiasco of fraud. Here is how/why it happened and why people who lost NOTHING because of the oil spill are still getting big checks.
Check this link which has a transcript to a 60 Minutes report on it. LINK Some highlights of the segment......
Apparently "BP agreed to pay businesses whose income dropped after the spill, and then rebounded one year later. Trouble was some attorneys soliciting clients, took that to mean any business with a loss of any kind. (No proof that the loss had anything remotely related to the spill was needed so shady lawyers took that and ran with it)
"To avoid decades of court battles and uncertainty, BP had agreed to a more lenient compensation program."
But now BP Senior Vice President Geoff Morell says the oil giant is getting soaked by businesses with losses that are not linked to the spill. " We're talking about a wireless phone company store that burned to the ground and shut down before the spill. An RV park owner that was foreclosed upon before the spill. And I love this one. A Pontiac dealer who could no longer sell Pontiacs because GM had discontinued the line before the spill. "
"Those are all real examples and are, frankly not exceptions but rather emblematic of a far larger problem.
There are more than a thousand claims just like them that had glaring red flags associated with them that should have been picked out by the claims administrator and instead were ultimately awarded more than $500 million."
"Other examples of glaring fraud was the $60,000 that went to colorectal surgeons 300 miles from the coast and 173,000 paid to an escort service in Florida. BP also claims $8 million was approved for companies that clean up after hurricanes. Their income was down after the spill, because there were no hurricanes that made landfall that year."
Check this link which has a transcript to a 60 Minutes report on it. LINK Some highlights of the segment......
Apparently "BP agreed to pay businesses whose income dropped after the spill, and then rebounded one year later. Trouble was some attorneys soliciting clients, took that to mean any business with a loss of any kind. (No proof that the loss had anything remotely related to the spill was needed so shady lawyers took that and ran with it)
"To avoid decades of court battles and uncertainty, BP had agreed to a more lenient compensation program."
But now BP Senior Vice President Geoff Morell says the oil giant is getting soaked by businesses with losses that are not linked to the spill. " We're talking about a wireless phone company store that burned to the ground and shut down before the spill. An RV park owner that was foreclosed upon before the spill. And I love this one. A Pontiac dealer who could no longer sell Pontiacs because GM had discontinued the line before the spill. "
"Those are all real examples and are, frankly not exceptions but rather emblematic of a far larger problem.
There are more than a thousand claims just like them that had glaring red flags associated with them that should have been picked out by the claims administrator and instead were ultimately awarded more than $500 million."
"Other examples of glaring fraud was the $60,000 that went to colorectal surgeons 300 miles from the coast and 173,000 paid to an escort service in Florida. BP also claims $8 million was approved for companies that clean up after hurricanes. Their income was down after the spill, because there were no hurricanes that made landfall that year."
This post was edited on 5/14/15 at 3:06 am
Posted on 5/14/15 at 6:11 am to gingerkittie
I should of made a claim. Had a 30K boat parked after the spill and never went back fishing. Was paying insurance on said boat the complete time. Loss that complete summer of fishing and then that Nov, I went into heart failure. Had to sell/gave everything away knowing I could never go again. 
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