Give a Leg Up

Date line – 02/19/09, New York, New York

Dustin Dibble, 25, made the deal of a lifetime. He got drunk and swapped his leg for $2,336,713.00 with the NYC Transit system. I’m not sure if that would be a good deal for some people. Certainly the idle rich wouldn’t make the trade. Probably not even the folks with a million dollar portfolio. Of course they would have had to start with a 2 million portfolio a year ago.
I imagine it may have been a little nerve racking since he had to wait three years to find out what his leg was worth, if anything. We don’t even know if the NYCT got the leg. Maybe someone swiped it and made a lamp for their living room window. Anyway, now that we know what a besotted leg is worth would you make the trade?
Oh, I forgot; his tort lawyer must have got half or so. That kind of sours the deal for me. I might consider a million for a foot. You know, it really pisses me off that the lawyer got half the leg. Shakespeare was right ‘first kill all the lawyers.’