The jury went through a week-long deliberation and eventually determined that Zielinski should be awarded $2.7 million compensation. Zielinski’s hand was injured, he had an excellent recovery, and he is currently working fulltime as a union sheet metal worker making approximately $50 per hour.” The lawyers for the Hillstrands contend that the former deckhand did suffer a serious injury, but he eventually recovered and now has a well-paying job that he is able to perform. I wanted to make sure that Dave’s medical expenses would be covered, and I thought that by stating that Dave was injured in traditional fishing activities we could make it more likely that our insurance would cover Dave’s injury.” I made this suggestion because I wanted to help Dave. “I suggested that perhaps we … could claim that Dave was injured by a crab pot or the pot launcher crushing his arm, instead of saying that a firework exploded in his hand. Johnathan’s sworn statement reveals his motivation for making this suggestion to Zielinski was only to help the deckhand. Johnathan was talked out of this by his brother, Andy Hillstrand. In addition, when the accident occurred, Captain Johnathan tried to convince the injured crabber to claim that this incident was from fishing, not from fireworks. They also claim that there was “a shockingly large quantity of potentially very dangerous fireworks for use by the crew.” The lawyers also claim that a member of the Hillstrand family destroyed the evidence from this incident. The lawyers for Zielinski claim that this footage would have shown Captain Andy making the order to shoot off the firecracker. What made this all more complicated was that the film footage from the Discovery Channel had gone missing. Captain Hillstrand’s admitted conduct was a gross dereliction of duty.” “Whether that failure was because he in fact wanted the fireworks to be discharged off the bow of his vessel at Cape Caution, or because he was so completely and utterly preoccupied … monitoring and relaying the fourth quarter plays of the Seattle Seahawks versus Atlanta Falcons football game does not matter. The lawyers for Zielinski claim that the captain was negligent in this situation, and pointed out that Captain Andy asked Beaver to shoot off the firecracker at the other boat. He was watching a NFL playoff game featuring his hometown team, the Seattle Seahawks. Although he went through many reconstructive surgeries to regain the use of his hand, Beaver had to end his long career as a crab fisherman.Ĭaptain Andy Hillstrand was commandeering the boat, yet, he admitted to the court that he was preoccupied at the time of the incident. The injury was quite severe, as it shattered the crabber’s right hand and forearm. Seattle PI reports that in 2013, David “Beaver” Zielinski was back to work on the F/V Time Bandit, when a Time Bandit-brand firecracker “exploded in the launcher he was holding.” He was aiming the firecracker at the F/V Cape Caution, Wild Bill’s boat at the time. Send us feedback about these examples.A Deadliest Catch deckhand was awarded $1.4 million in a lawsuit agains the F/V Time Bandit, when his hand was seriously injured, during the filming of the popular Discovery Channel show. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'bandit.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Its southwest Atlanta warehouse has been targeted in a rash of break-ins by what authorities believe to be a serial bandit who has stolen thousands of dollars worth of toys. 2023 In other parts of the country, marauding gunmen known locally as bandits have carried out mass kidnappings mostly for ransom. 2023 In the northwest and northern center of the country, armed gangs known as bandits have stolen cattle, kidnapped thousands of people and forced schools to close for months to keep students safe. 2023 Then, bandits raided her relatives’ village, burning down houses and killing her grandmother and cousin. 2023 Armed bandit attacks in Nigeria led to the loss of 2,600 lives in 2021, an increase of over 250% from 2020. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023 The bandits would force security guards to the ground at gunpoint, zip-tie them, and grab the bags of money before fleeing. Flora Cassen, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2023 Sometime in the 1560s, for example, the governor of Milan received a letter from Lazarino Pugieto and Moyses Fereves, bankers from Genoa, explaining that bandits had robbed them after recognizing them as Jews based on their badges. Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web The victims also told the agents that other bandits were holding a different group of migrants against their will on the Mexican side of the border.
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