Gothamist: Staten Island Firefighter Gets $3.75 Million In Lawsuit Over Brawl

HowBoutDemCowboys

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:55:25 -0500

"Take responsibility for your own actions - gay, straight, or not!" Walsh gets a metal chair smashed over his skull and he's supposed to take responsibility for his own actions? So he's supposed to be responsible for his own skull fractures? Seriously? Do you own a brain or rent one?

JP Lynch

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:37:05 -0500

NannyState: This has nothing to do with living on Staten Island, but thanks for being yet another asshole to insult Staten Island. Dick.

felixthecat

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:42:59 -0500

how the hell is it the city's fault. this is why we had to pay so much taxes. what a joke

NannyState

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:19:28 -0500

This just shows that if you live in Staten Island and you don't know Elvis' birthday, that you are some kind of fag. Or a complete idiot. Or both.

StinaLES

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:18:50 -0500

People will use any idiotic reason to steal our tax dollars. Walsh and others like him are despicable. Take responsibility for your own actions - gay, straight, or not!

JP Lynch

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:33:18 -0500

If I'm not mistaken, weren't both drinking alcohol on duty which precipitated these actions? How would this by New York City's fault? Everything goin' in the world today and taxpayers are on the hook to pay for some jackasses. Nice.

John Del Signore

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:26:36 -0500

@ CubanB: I mean bit.

IvoryJive

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:24:20 -0500

I just don't get how the city can be considered liable for this. The guy does jail time, the city should cover medical costs and disability pay. With full sympathy for the injured, I find it despicable when people see fit to take millions from taxpayers for an accident like they just won the lottery.

CubanB

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:21:05 -0500

I think you mean bid instead of bit, otherwise it doesn't make sense. Why the city had to pay 3.5 mil to this guy, I have no idea.

John Del Signore

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:03:32 -0500

Thanks Colleen, that should have read 8 months.

colleenMM

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:56:16 -0500

The people held at Rikers are generally there because they didn't make bail, have been sentenced to a year or less, or are waiting to be sent to an upstate prison, so I doubt that Silvestri spent 8 years there.

mocanlagunas

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:41:01 -0500

this is sick... I mean the passing the blame to the deepest pocketed entity possible. What the hell had the city to do with this? it makes me nauseous...

madzack

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:32:55 -0500

fucking gay firefighters

Outter Burrougher

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:30:59 -0500

how much of the time did Silvestri serve, or is he still in prison?

Dirk

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:22:56 -0500

All of this pain and suffering over Elvis' birthday? What a bunch of morons.

Trilby16

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:22:42 -0500

Wow... That was the city's fault, huh?