WatchA Las Vegas woman who was severely beaten by a man she met through Match.com is suing the online dating site for $10 million two years and multiple surgeries after the attack that left her hospitalized for months.
Beckman filed suit in Clark County, Nevada, accusing Match.com of negligence, negligent misrepresentation, deceptive trade, failure to warn and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
The site, she said, failed to warn her about the dangers of meeting "an individual whose intentions are not to find a mate, but to find victims to kill or rape."
The real estate agent said she joined Match.com about a month before her first in-person meeting with Ridley on Sept. 26, 2010. They dated for 10 days, but she called it off. That's when Ridley started sending her threatening and harassing messages.
On Jan. 21, 2011, Ridley attacked Beckman in her garage, and left her for dead, she says, when she stopped making a "gurgling noise."
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Sad, but who the fuck else do you think is hanging around on swamps like Match.com besides rapists, murderers and cannibals?
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maybe your mom.
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Mark D says
And "Lola" when "she's" not at the Piggly Wiggly
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Have you seen the guy? Geesh! She'll probably not win her case, as She doesn't seem to have very high standards in men she agrees to meet up with in a dark alley she met on the Internet.
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An ugly crime to be sure. Match.com may protest its innocence and the unfairness of the lawsuit, but they won't jeopardize the cash cow with an actual civil trial. There will be a quiet little settlement with lots of forms and NDAs for her to sign. Can't say she doesn't deserve at least that much. The site can definitely afford it. What it can't afford is a legal precedent of culpability.
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Wow that guy looks like he would eat peanut butter out of the jar at the store, and then close it up and put it back on the shelf.
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IDDQD says
I have a few friends that have met people online and dated for awhile, or got married and were happy.
I don't troll for dates online because I don't know them, don't know if they're ax murderers or rapists... I also don't stand on the top step of ladders with no support, run with scissors, or do so many other things that I've been warned not to do by disclaimers and stickers all over the items. That's because I possess something called "common sense."
But this woman obviously has no common sense. Then again, she's a realtor so she's already proven that. All Match.com has to do is to stand up in court and point out that she's a realtor and they've won.
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She should have just waited at the exit door of the local penitentiary with binoculars and offered the best likely parolee with a paper bag a ride home.
She could then always call his parole officer and have him remanded back if he didn't behave.
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Ceffer says
But she couldn't have found an attorney to help sue the prison system for $10 million dollars.