A lawyer in Germany is offering to help people abducted by aliens to get government compensation. Of course, the US is the world headquarters for litigation, but perhaps American lawyers know they won’t get anything out of the US government. In Germany the state is more generous in paying out money to victims:
"These people could appeal for therapies or cures," he said.
Lorek, 41, is pinning his hopes for success on a German law which grants kidnap victims the right to state compensation.
When the lawyer was asked if he was worried people would laugh at him for such a ridiculous stunt, he apparently said:
"Nobody has laughed about it up until now."
Well, consider yourself laughed at now.
If you had read my review of Susan Clancy’s work or my report of Clancy’s interview, you would know that most alien abductions are likely the results of sleep paralysis, rather than an actual alien abduction. Aha – I think I see how US lawyers could get in on this. The makers of Ambien should expect a class action lawsuit any day now.
That's a good one, Skeptico :)
' "There's quite obviously demand for legal advice here," Jens Lorek told Reuters by telephone on Thursday. "The trouble is, people are afraid of making fools of themselves in court." '
Apparently, Herr Lorek himself has no such fears ...
I hope he tries it, so we can all have a good laugh.
Posted by: Jocky | October 11, 2006 at 04:56 AM
"Nobody has laughed about it up until now."
I gues that's because Germans (at least stereotypical Germans) don't laugh a lot.
Seriously, if Herr Lorek actually goes to court, we would have another classical trial of science vs. pseudoscience, maybe with some idiotic declarations á la Behe from a German ufologist... Oh please, let be a trial with Herr Lorek.
Posted by: Pereque | October 11, 2006 at 11:37 AM
Can you believe that someone has the audacity to think that he can prove in a court of law that a person who has been abducted by aliens can possibly receive government funded help? Much less even prove that someone has been abducted at all. Every story involving alien abductions has absolutely no physical evidence. Oh well no accounting for stupidity.
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?"
Posted by: Alex | October 14, 2006 at 12:47 PM
They should be referred to the alien government on Zeta Reticuli or wherever. The court should, on the other hand, agree to refund travel expenses once the plaintiff has returned.
Posted by: Big Al | October 14, 2006 at 01:18 PM