What the Hell?!

Dealership settles in lawsuit over man’s suicide

A Texas car dealership has settled a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who killed himself after dropping out of a contest in which participants tried to keep their hand on a vehicle the longest.

Details of the settlement between Patterson Nissan of Longview, in east Texas, and Chalala Gutierrez, the wife of contestant Richard Thomas Vega II, are confidential, officials said.

The suit, settled Thursday, focused on a 2005 contest in which the winner of the “Hands on a Hardbody” contest was awarded a Nissan truck and other prizes.

Just before a scheduled rest break 48 hours into the event, Vega dropped out, crossed a street and broke into a Kmart store, where he took a gun from a case and shot himself.

How in the hell is this the dealership’s responsibility. If someone doesn’t win the lottery and commits suicide, are they going to sue the state or the lottery comission? How does anyone hold contest sponsor responsible for someone sueing because their spouse lost it and committed suicide?