It’s long been documented that we live in a world where coffee that’s too
hot can end up causing a lawsuit, but a new one I’ve just read about really
takes the definition of frivolous to new heights.
Two parents are suing the Greater Toronto Hockey League, one of its teams
and four coaches for $25,000 each because their two sons were cut from the
team tryouts.
As reported in the Toronto Star, Vito Valela and David Longo are suing after
their sons Daniel and Christopher were cut back in April from the Avalanche
Minor Sports Club midget junior A team tryouts where 70 kids were competing
for 17 spots on the roster.
The parents claim states that the cuts “have caused irreparable
psychological damage to Daniel Longo’s self esteem as an impressionable
teenager and demoralized Daniel as an athlete and team hockey player with
his peers”.
And although after being told of getting cut Christopher vowed never to play
hockey again – “the game which he loved since childhood,”– he did manage to
sign on with another team, or as his mother put it: “Thank the good Lord
that my son had the courage and strength to compose himself in his
demoralized state.”
Hopefully, if this case actually reaches court, a judge will give the
parents a misconduct penalty. What message are they sending their kids – sue
if you don’t like the results?
I can see Daniel and Christopher’s future now. They get rejected after
asking a girl out to the school prom – a lawsuit follows for destroying
their fragile, developing male egos.
And God help the poor woman who turns down a marriage proposal. They’re
definitely going to be sued for misleading the poor boys down the path.
Maybe the sons should sue the parents for embarrassing them in front of the
world.