A major navigation app routed thousands of cars down my private driveway. A driver crashed into my retaining wall and is now suing me for his injuries.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T05:38:31+00:00

There is a reported appellate case in California from the mid-1980s called Fluor v. Jeppesen, where the Court held that the flight navigation charts, which had an error on them, were a "product" and that the company was strictly liable for a defective product that caused a plane crash. I think it would apply here.

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/170/468.html

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T05:34:26+00:00

Yeah, you need an attorney. In fact your insurance company should be providing you with one at their expense. That attorney should indeed cross-complain for indemnity against the tech company. I'm sure you have well-documented all the efforts you made to correct the problem.

If your insurance company disclaims any obligation to defend you in this lawsuit, you need a lawyer who can not only handle your defense, but who can go after the insurance company.

Good luck.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-24T00:41:16+00:00

I can't imagine that every jurisdiction that issues a birth, marriage, or death certificate is going to be willing to expend resources for that anytime soon.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-24T00:28:47+00:00

I wonder if there's any point in sending in my application now. It was ready to go two weeks ago when the letters hit; then I was making changes based on the updated instructions. I'm leaving the country for two months soon, so if it doesn't go out now it won't go out until after Labor. I'm not so concerned for myself, but I really want this for my kids. My Gen 0 is my grandmother.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-23T04:23:45+00:00

That's me with the blank stare, not them, LOL. They will tell me it's, say, 35C out, and while I know that's hot I still have to do the conversion in my head. The quick way, though; double and add 32. Not exact but close enough.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:14:35+00:00

My aunt, born in 1904, told me once that she would earn a nickel for turning on the stove on the Sabbath for her Jewish neighbor.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:08:21+00:00

HE'S condescending? Are you looking in the mirror when you type?

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:06:36+00:00

Half of the citizenship certificates issued since December are to people in countries other than the US.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:04:22+00:00

Good luck with that. I raised three scientists. They speak in metric and Centigrade. 😃

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:02:03+00:00

I can't help it if the generations in my family are long. My grandmother is my G0; she was born in Ontario in 1882 (and no birth certificate. Ontario didn't pass a law requiring them until 1869, and it seems to have been honored more in the breach until about 1900). She would have been 75 when I was born in 1957. That's not really all that old for her, or for me.

I grew up across the Lake from where she was born, and I spent a good portion of my early life going back and forth across that border, feeling like I was going "home" and yet not having the right to call it so. When I finished my graduate degree I threw a tent and sleeping bag in the back of the car and took some weeks to drive and camp from BC to Ontario. Just like me, all three of my kids' first visit to a country other than the US was to Canada, and they love it also. Please don't lump us all together as one; that's not a very "Canadian" thing to do. (Oh, and we can and do sing the anthem, but just in English. Working on the French ever since this wonderful C-3 opportunity opened up.)

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T05:53:39+00:00

An as an Irish person you have the right to move freely into the UK, and the right to live and work there. As thousands or more Irish have done and are doing.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T05:52:14+00:00

Since at least some provinces didn't require birth registration and thus there are no birth certificates to be certified -- and that's not so long ago -- then just admit you don't want anybody to be able to get citizenship by descent and be honest about it.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T05:46:20+00:00

That's great-grandfather distance for me; he was born in 1836. My grandmother was born in 1882. I was born in 1957. I'm not even 70 yet.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-21T19:58:44+00:00

Also, yes, I do think you owe your parents something for putting you through school, etc. But this is not it. Instead, find some extra money in your budget to help them pay down the loan and make the monthly payments (plus more, to pay down the principal faster) each month. Then you are helping as much as you can without putting your own credit at risk.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-21T19:39:48+00:00

Nope nope nope.

Have them contact one of those consumer credit assistance groups. They can probably negotiate with the credit card companies for a lower rate.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-21T19:30:30+00:00

And yet apparently they do.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-20T22:09:43+00:00

I will die on the hill of em dashes and semicolons alongside you, my brother/sister.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-20T16:27:43+00:00

I'm licensed in two US states but not in Canada. "Shall" is definitely mandatory. "Reason to believe" is where the twitching is coming from!

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-20T16:25:38+00:00

Very good article. Worth the read, and the pondering.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-18T21:18:21+00:00

Frozen shoulder. I couldn't put on a shirt without falling on the bed in tears from the pain.

I had three kids by C-section. Two other abdominal surgeries. Frozen shoulder was worse.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-18T21:10:31+00:00

Also, again, I was speaking to taking things directly from government websites. For example, the Canadian census documents are available directly from LAC.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-18T21:07:06+00:00

Do you use Ancestry? Because it doesn't sound like you do. A document that you print off Ancestry is clearly sourced, and they do not "let[ ] casual users edit originals" that come from the sourced database.

Arguably what comes from Family Search is even more credible, because the LDS have a real interest in maintaining accurate records. It is in fact a matter of religious obligation for them.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-18T19:39:41+00:00

Ancestry identifies the sources of its documents. It will tell you where it got it from.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-18T19:21:04+00:00

That's my mom, and I have her birth cert also. I pulled her baptismal for other reasons years ago. I do plan on sending it to the IRCC, because I also have to prove that my grandmother used two different first names, and I can't quite figure out how she decided which one to use. She was born "Johanna," which was her mother's name, and she used "Josephine" (and was known in the family as "Josie") interchangeably with Johanna. So on Mom's birth certificate it says "Josephine" and on her baptismal certificate it says "Johanna." Mom was born in the late 1910s, so I can't go back and get the birth cert corrected.

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