Back in 2015 then-Senator Harry Reid had a mishap with an exercise band that blinded him in one eye and rendered him impotent. The democrat filed suit and a jury just ruled against him, which is already pretty funny. It gets downright hysterical when the reason Reid lost this suit is revealed. Apparently he sued the wrong company. In addition to losing sight and stiffness, this exercise equipment accident also gave him dementia.
In the initial lawsuit filed by Reid and his wife, the one time Senate Majority Leader claims that he was working out with a rubber band exercise aid when it slipped out of his hands. That certainly seems like it was Reid’s fault, but you know how democrats don’t like taking responsibility for their own actions.
The resulting accident poked out one of Reid’s eyes and, according to the suit, made it so he could no longer make sweet sweet love to his lady. He was 75 at the time, so chances are he was already impotent, but he was looking to cash in so he included his permanent windsock in the list of damages.
It took 4 years but Reid finally got his day in court and The AP reports it didn’t go well for him:
A jury in Las Vegas rejected former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s lawsuit against an exercise band maker he blamed for injuries including blindness in one eye suffered in January 2015.
After eight days of civil trial testimony, the eight-member jury deliberated about an hour before declaring Friday that Reid never proved the device he used that day was a TheraBand made by Ohio-based Hygenic Corp.
Jurors never saw the actual exercise band because Reid’s son disposed of it soon after Reid was injured.
This is amazing to me. Reid and his lawyers went into this lawsuit with zero proof that the company they were suing was even the manufacturer of the exercise band he claimed injured him. I don’t have a fancy law degree but even I understand that you have to make sure you are suing the right company and that the judge and jury might expect some evidence that you are suing the right company.
Even if his son threw the exercise band out, presumably Reid bought it somewhere. Didn’t he have a credit card receipt, an invoice, or an on-line record? Then again, it was probably given to him a by a special interest lobbyist and he kept it off the books for obvious reasons.
Reid was initially seeking $50,000 which doesn’t seem like much considering he lost an eye and a functioning ding dong. Chances are he knew this was a bullshit lawsuit from the beginning. He definitely figured it out during the trial. After a couple of days of testimony he dropped his negligence claim and then when the verdict was read, he didn’t even bother to show up to court.
Reid may not have gotten compensated for an accident that was his fault in a lawsuit against a company that wasn’t responsible, but his legacy as a US Senator will live on forever. As the Senate Majority Leader he invoked the “nuclear option” to get rid of the filibuster for judicial nominees. Thanks to him, President Trump was able to sit two Supreme Court Justices that would have otherwise been blocked by uppity democrats.
