Guests Sue Groom Over Drone Crash At Wedding

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A groom is getting sued after he flew a drone into a tent and hit a woman in the head with it. I hate it when I show up for free cake and get a fractured nose and concussion instead.

Billcliff was flabbergasted. “How would anyone think that anything like that would ever happen on their big day?” he said. Paramedics showed up and the reception came to a halt. “That pretty much ended it,” said Billcliff, who added his bride, Nichole, was in a “really, really bad mood after that.” “At the moment, she just got really mad at me and thought that I just completely ruined the wedding,” Billcliff said. “She was so worried about me doing something stupid.” Billcliff admits he’s known for his “stupid antics.” But except for tossing a few meatballs at his friends’ table, Billcliff insists he was on his best behavior at the wedding.
 
what an idiot.

1. shouldn't be flying it inside tent
2. shouldn't be flying it around a crowd.
3. denying he was the pilot when DJ witnessed the groom flying it.

He's lucky the guest didn't die.
 
you know when you have a bad set of friends/family when...you have to get court/legal system to settle things rather than settling issues in private

Agreed, but maybe Barry is the asshole here. The drone did allegedly fracture someones orbital bone and gave someone 20 stitches in the head. That's not cheap.

Maybe they asked Barry for some money for the medical bills and he didn't pony up.
 
Good thing he didn't have the carbon fiber propellers! They would've cause a lot more damage.
 
People being assholes at a wedding, what's next, people being assholes at the bar? At football games?

I'm at the age now where thankfully most of my friends are married and the ones that were married and got divorced decided it was a bad idea and don't want to do it again. No weddings for this guy!
 
you know when you have a bad set of friends/family when...you have to get court/legal system to settle things rather than settling issues in private

In a lot of cases, these lawsuits aren't really the choice of the family. Their medical insurance may be requiring the lawsuit in order to provide coverage. The insurance company doesn't want to pay all those bills if they can sue another person's insurance to pay them instead. So that's why you'll see people suing family members or other things like that. Given that the new bride and groom just blew all their cash on this wedding anyway, they might not have the cash to cover what sounds like a pretty costly emergency room visit either, so this may be the only way to pay the bills.

Then again, maybe they are dicks.
 
Heh anyone read the comments? The groom, Barry, and friends found $720,000 in antique bills some years ago.. somewhere.
http://www.masscops.com/threads/defendants-in-antique-money-case-will-seek-second-dismissal.25177/

Model citizens.

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NEWBURYPORT - The first time Barry Billcliff and Tim Crebase were charged with stealing $720,000 in antique bills from a Newbury barn, the case was dismissed. They are hoping for the same outcome the second time around.

Newbury police last week filed new larceny charges in the stolen bills case, now nearly two years old. Billcliff and Crebase yesterday pleaded not guilty to those charges in Newburyport District Court.

Crebase, of Methuen, and Billcliff, of Manchester, N.H., claimed in April 2005 to have found the money buried in the backyard of a friend's home in Methuen. Methuen police later charged the pair with stealing the money from the barn they were hired to repair.
 
All the groom needed to do was remember the CSC command... it kills power to the props instantly. Would have prevented a few cuts, anyway.
 
Wish I could find $720K in my house. All I've found are newspapers and linoleum from the 40s and 50s.
 
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