If you actually read the document it just indemnifies them for any potential damage caused from the testing itself, not legal proceedings related to the damage from the accident itself.
The fact that they had pointed out all these other accidents by train derailment is like they're trying to normalize this but it's not because there was just another derailment near Detroit yesterday and others in the country just in the last week involving toxic waste so someone is trying to sabotage this country and kill people you think maybe our government?
Are you kidding me? Sign a hold harmless agreement when they caused the worst environmental catastrophe we have ever seen in this country? DONT SIGN ANYTHING without an attorney…EVER.
I don't think it was an accident, I think they thought oh it's ohio no one will notice or care because its a low income area.... These people can't afford to up and leave. I can't believe nobody is helping them
If you think this is the worst in history, you haven't heard of three mile island, Camp Fire, Michigan PBB, Bunker Hill Mine, Atomic Homefront, Love Canal, and Centralia, Pennsylvania? And I'm not an American citizen, let alone well versed in history.
@Daddysavage no I don't think it was an accident that's what I said but yeah I just seen more trains de railing there.... All carrying the same chemicals? There's nothing on our news at all I'm in Ireland
If you actually read the document it just indemnifies them for any potential damage caused from the testing itself, not legal proceedings related to the damage from the accident itself.
@@Jackquinn101 Your post might hold water EXCEPT the railroad already backtracked and said that the document was issued in error and should NOT have included that language.
Even Norfolk Southern admits they provided the wrong document. Norfolk may very upended these peoples lives and in this moment to add any stress to citizens who had nothing to do with the accident but now have to live with the potential horrific ramifications of all of this is just wrong. Norfolk should be doing testing and if they do cause any more damage to prop during this, they should be liable to cover any costs. Just do the right thing right now and stop trying to CYA, is that unreasonable? Even if for some reason they accidentally broke a window in the home during testing, they better pay for that shit! Sorry for the rant. Just feel horrible for this town and the people.
I like how Norfolk Southern gave the "wrong form" to hundreds of their neighbors to sign. Good grief. I'm so glad this woman and her boyfriend were wise and stood their ground, saying no to signing. She was smart to get a photo of the form as well. What a horrible, horrible thing all these folks are going through!!
@@deshazo_henry Well, I guess your "bottom line" is more important than the town your company destroyed. Sleep well, knowing your investment dollars have damaged a community beyond repair.
@Andrew Please go to 1:33 of the video and pause and zoom in. You can clearly see in the paragraph below the two check boxes that it says: "Landowner agrees to indemnify, release, and hold harmless UNIFIED COMMAND [caps mine] from and against any and all legal claims, including for personal injury or property damage, arising from Monitoring Team's performance of air monitoring or environmental sampling at the Property on the date of signature below." No mention of Norfolk Southern whatsoever, except tangentially in the first paragraph. It's clear that the hold harmless is only in relation to the monitoring activities.
The judge that sees this case should find that all the people who signed were compelled to sign under duress because they wanted their homes tested. This company needs to pay through the nose for this.
The indemnification specifically states “arising from the monitoring teams performance at the property on the date of signing”. It’s no big deal… It’s just saying the homeowner isn’t going to sue the “inspection team” for damage or whatever caused during their inspection, and only on that day. This news story is just very poor reporting.
@@HiThisIsMine There was a lawyer that read the paper some of them signed and said he has seen some companies argue that they received compensation by signing those. He was telling them not to sign it. And they're refusing to test without signing. I trust an experienced lawyers opinion over internet strangers.
Most did simply because they were terrified of the situation they found themselves in. I reckon that a lot of us would do the same in these circumstances. And this company knows it.
@@michellecollins290 I disagree, most of us would not do the same...number one rule before you sign anything, read it thoroughly, especially the fine print and know what you are signing before you make that decision.
Please don’t sign away your rights to sue!!! How absolutely disgusting is it that this company is now leveraging the fact that people are terrified to be in their own homes to coerce them into signing away their rights to sue for damages! This company is worth $34 billion and instead of doing everything in their power using these resources to mitigate the harm, they are making this help that they owe conditioned on waiving their rights and ability to receive justice for their losses! If those health inspectors from the company showed up and rubbed salt in the wound by trying to trick me into signing this I would give them 10 seconds to get off my property and then release my dogs on them!
They also paid $25,000 to the city to evacuate the residents, which comes up to a measly $5 friggin dollars per person considering 5000 people had to be evacuated. This company needs to be sued to oblivion and every single member of their board must be thrown into prison.
remove your HVAC filters and put them in a sealed bag so they can be tested later and used as evidence in court some day. (also be sure to keep your vents closed and HVAC off if you cant simply leave the area.)
It's in no way an indirect admission of guilt. It's far worse than that - it says that you won't sue even if they are guilty. If it says "indemnify and hold harmless", which is the common term, it means you have a duty to pay for their lawyers if anyone else sues them over the incident. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if this is crap reporting though - I have a feeling that maybe it's just the water testing company who is looking for a hold harmless agreement, meaning "hey, we're just the testing guys - don't sue us...sue Norfolk Southern because they're the ones who caused the problem". That just makes more sense.
From UK too. I've known for a long time but glad my fellow brits are starting to catch on. I'm seeing everyone questioning it these days. People who'd usually say we're being paranoid as well. It's pretty blatant now.
This absolutely disgusting. The contracts should immediately be null and void for the apparent trickery to get stressed out landowners & towns people to sign the contract. They have been caught. My prayers to all the people, animals and every living thing that's been affected.
@@Jake-Day It doesn’t relinquish their rights vis a vis the railroad. But the homeowners would be indemnifying the testing company from any claims. That means if the testing contractors who entered the property became ill, the homeowners would be liable. That’s a sticky wicket. I wouldn’t sign.
Wait... hundreds of her neighbors signed it?! So then they were all "accidentally"sent the wrong agreement too? C'mon! This needs to become the BIGGEST class action lawsuit in our history! SUE SUE SUE. And then maybe some safety laws will be put in place
We had some safety laws put in place, but unfortunately they were passed by Obama so one of the first things Trump did in office was remove those safety laws and regulations.
You're consumed by greed and money---- *which is exactly the Satanic attitude that caused this*. Greed won't fix their DNA ---which is changing as I write .
You know the answer to that. However a good judge could throw them out since it was tied into a service as coercive. Also if the company is paying for the testing they are not independent.
Agree with other poster. A court would find this coercion and a good judge would go off on them for even trying this. But these companies are gonna still try.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to I "like" how we have to rely on a "good" judge that isn't in someone's pocket like 99% of anything related to the damn gov't.
Wait a minute a railroad company maliciously and carelessly causes a disaster in your backyard and then they want you to sign a form indemnifying them from any harm by justice?
Evil bastards. Unbelievable. Those people need to sue Norfolk Southern into oblivion. From what I've seen, this was totally preventable. Now it needs to be adjudicated of course but I would be filing. Those people have been harmed in just about every way.
Except for the part where they elect officials who want to deregulate everything and then act shocked when this exact kind of thing happens. Like, duh.
A "Hold Harmless" contract agreement inspection company is *NOT* an independent company. (Edit: Came to find out that the inspection company is part of the Norfolk Southern team!)
To me, the contract reads (1:55 min.) that the Independent Company (United Command) will be held harmless for anything that happens to the homeowners while their workers are on the property, not Norfolk Southern. I suppose in our litigious society, a homeowner could potentially claim that they had to visit their home to open the door the day of inspection and therefore breathed in more chemicals or something and sue the inspection company for that new injury. Seems that is why they issue such a form.
@Govinda GovindaJi I agree when I read the bottom of that but then why didn't they just say that to explain it instead of having the train company come out and say it was the wrong paper?
@@govindagovindaji4662 Unified Command is not an independent company - read the entire contract, it's from NS, and Unified Command is what they are calling everyone involved in the air quality team. It's a slimy contract.
It said "Unified Command", not specifically Norfolk Southern. Perhaps it was the testing company with no relation to Norfolk Southern and this has been misrepresented? Do you know anything about the signatory not knowing who the parties to the contract are? Thats a serious question, as I don't.
@@McAwesomeReaper that was my first thought as well, as the testing company indicated that they were independent contractors, but the response from Norfolk Southern seemed to indicate that it was their form. I don’t know. If I ran an independent testing firm, I would definitely make sure to have a hold harmless clause to protect my business from being sued for someone else’s mistakes.
@@McAwesomeReaper Google The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH, as shown in the document in the video), they are a known, shady private contractor that major corporations have hired in the past to absolve them of guilt in cases where they were later found guilty of safety violations or environmental disasters. This is the same private contractor that deemed the 2010 BP oil spill safe, even after that massive rabbit hole was uncovered. Mother Jones put out a great article on the subject in 2019, years before this current disaster, so they've been shady for years, we're just now catching wind of it again, especially with such a fishy "accidental" handout of a hold harmless contract. Other commenters are missing the point too, they're trying to act like the hold harmless agreement is a normality, and that CTEH is standing by the decision to hand these contracts out, but even as was reported in this news segment, they literally walked it back immediately, calling it an accident. So it's fishy from every angle, we have to realize that.
When they try and make people sign things they are trying to avoid being held accountable. I genuinely believe the long term of this wreck is way worse then they are telling people .
The ground water in that region will be ruined basically forever. These people will need to cook, clean, drink, and shower with bottled water for their entire lives there, because I don't think even consumer distillation methods will remove these chemicals from the water.
@@xploration1437 if these chemicals were going to explode either from government control “demolition” or naturally from pressure in the rail cars, what other alternative could’ve been used in this case for cleanup so the toxins weren’t released in the atmosphere?
Vinyl chloride is in the Ohio River, that leads to the Mississippi River. This isn't just a Ohio problem, this is a major issue this will poison the water supply for multiple states and cities. Time to wake up
Yep. Where do we get a lot of our food from? Where does that water flow? Where does the air blow? Where does it rain? And it's not just Ohio, either. There have been several, including plastics and hazmat cleanup companies. Dig deeper and buckle up.
How is that not 'signed under duress', or something along those lines? People's lives were uprooted in one swoop, and before they can even start to think, some POS rep disguises a contract to look like a permission slip and gets all the 'get out of jail free' cards they can? That RR company needs to be prosecuted for that, as well as the accident.
Google duress. Asking someone to sign something is not duress. Forcing someone to sign is. And read the contract. The hold harmless agreement was to protect the air and water monitoring people from being held liable for things Norfolk southern did. READ. LEARN WHAT WORDS MEAN. Don't be this stupid for the rest of your life. But you will. My condolences.
Every worker you hire in your house to fix anything has that same document. Most people just sign it without reading it. They do it after the work has been done too. They tried it on me and I asked to read it, and the guy put his hand over it. So i took it and read it. It was basically saying they could kill you in your own house and they are not liable. Lawyers invented it and its a standard form.
@@RichardCranium321 Richard you could be correct. Thing is if it is blackrock they are in the rare position of being able to easily handle this properly. They have the funds, they have the power. As long as they have morals they should be on top of things. Right?
@@insidejob8309 what morals? they are number one shareholder in Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing whilst simultaneously being granted the reconstruction contracts in Ukraine... after their bombs are dropped, they get paid to rebuild. they are a WEF partner, Larry Finck is buddies with SBF (ftx scam)
Officials KNOW they’re up against lawsuits, & the signature requests are blackmail!! I just hope the ones that don’t sign it stay safe, & watch their backs!! Sounds like corruption!
The real consequences of this disaster will only become evident in 20 year’s time when local ppl are in hospitals for the same reason. Corruption at the highest levels 💔
Look at all the lawyer ads for mesothelioma and the Fort Bragg water lawsuits! Does that tell you something? Those poisonings were kept secret until peoples health problems couldn't be hidden any more! Be forwarned!
I don’t know if it will take 20 years, sadly probably sooner than that. But it’s not just this town. Water flows, wind carried that smoke cloud. Think of the farms in that area. We all eat that food.
Actually that's good. A good judge could have them thrown out as coerced since it was tied to the service. And they are making decisions from a point of desperation. They just need to find a good judge. Good luck with that.
@@beccaboone7960birds aren't real. It doesn't matter if people sign it or not if this were to go to court the judge would probably rule it an accident and not force northfolks south for any damages
Well, that's terrifying. It makes me feel extremely concerned for other residents who may have gotten tricked into signing this form. Thank goodness Ms. Schwarzwaelder had the presence of mind to snap that pic, and thank goodness the Norfolk Southern spokesperson was forced to go on record saying it was a "mistake." That "mistake" should hold true for anyone else who was "accidentally" given that form to sign. Yeesh. Just when you thought Norfolk Southern couldn't sink any lower . . .
@@antipathy17 the hold harmless agreement specifically states any and all legal claims to the United command, which includes Norfolk. They purposely made the statement ambiguous to trick people into signing. It doesn't state only for testing, it says including testing.
if they were tricked into signing, with invalid information ..thats grounds to sue as well. These days, getting people to sign a dodgy contract ..is not as good as it 'may' have been in the past. As long as you know that is. A dodgy form/contract/wording ..can easily show the company is the guity one. And if the rail company were getting people to sign this, while they still haven't 'figured out' all the chemicals released. That, is a solicitors dream case. Showing how the 'big man' bullies the small. Easy case really, especially if you keep the media involved (keep it high profile).
No, it means you cannot sue the company they work for the damages they did which is why the inspection team is there its a scam like me burning your house down and then me paying for people to inspect the damages they say that you started the fire from house stove or even lying about it not being fire damage plus since they working for me what you signed means you cannot sue me. Like if someone burned your house down they get you to sign a piece of paper bulldoze your house and now no proof of fire damage.
Think about how dumb the average person is. Not that hard to fathom. My favorite part is the governor trying to villify the company like hes not a scumbag himself.
Questions spring to mind: 1 Why is it not the EPA (or another federal/state body) running the tests? 2 If there is a possibility that Norfolk Southern could be held responsible (at least in part) then can the results of their tests be believable?
I wouldn't sign anything...long term illness. Millions not a thousand to each person. Millions per person and get a class action against them and personal injury lawyers...immediately. This company has a history of wrong doings sue the pants off of them.
Millions? A guy was just released after 28 years and the country can't even compensate him for the years he lost. Don't you understand America is fucking broke? I don't even mean that as a joke. 100% serious, *America is broke!*
This breaks my heart!!! This was handled so poorly! I hope the local residents get justice. I cant imagine how this could turn out once the toxicology tests are conducted .
Don’t be so naive. This wasn’t so poorly handled; it was intentionally handled exactly the way they wanted it to be handled. You have no idea who you’re dealing with if “it breaks your heart”. Seriously? Is that what you tell someone who kills your family while robbing your house? Cause that’s the level of malevolence we’re dealing with here. They will simply laugh at you and anyone else who says “it broke their heart”.
Testing data can be falsified. I was a lab tech. Look at the false data Monsanto provided to make their herbicide "safe". Just read "Whitewash" with regards to that company, cancer, and Round Up.
The local residents will all be dead in a matter of time. There will never be "justice" for what happened in Palestine. Biden is making sure of that. FEMA is already refusing help saying the situation doesn't warrant it. Keep in mind folks, the community that got hit voted for Trump.
Exactly why rail workers tried to strike but fell on deaf ears. It’s too bad tragedies have to occur for change to happen. Hope this makes for better and safer working conditions, along with safer rails.
That is not the stated reason rail workers were trying to organize a strike. Their main stated reason had to do with PTO precipitated by Covid quarantining requirements that kept them from working. They rejected a hefty raise and continued to demand more PTO instead.
@@grizz6150 You're wrong. As reported by Reuters December 2 of last year, under the title "Biden signs bill to block U.S. railroad strike", the Unions rejected a 24% raise and pushed for more PTO. Look it up for yourself. They keep deleting my comment with the link. I'll remind you that Reuters actually favors both Unions and the current admin in their reportage so the fact that they reported this at all is telling.
They are literally just trying to test for their safety and the form it shows in this video states that it is only applicable to any possible damage done by the testing procedure being performed on that day. They just didn't read that part out loud because it doesn't fit the narrative they are pushing for ratings.
I've had dealings with them, don't ever sign something they wrote period. They sent me and all my neighbors paperwork wanting us to sign a contract on the crossings going across the railroad when they spit a piece of property. It completely released them of any liability and put it all on the land owner. I refused.
I'm sure a lot of people signed it without reading and or understanding what it actually was. Good for this woman to not sign it, and for talking to the news about what they are really doing.
They're absolute imbecile. Imagine someone fucking your health, your life, and all your belongings, and then you going onto sign that they didn't do nothing wrong; seriously, at that point, one does not deserve to live, judging by the disrespect of themselves alone; I really can't imagine those people signed without also doing spastic arm movements and chanting something along the lines of "heeeee i liek train man you friend".
Really? That’s hard to believe. How did you figure this out? Why would they do such a thing? That sounds unfair of them. I thought they were good corporate citizens.
Never. Duh. Companies bring in more tax money than an individual does. Who do you think the government is gonna side with? The ones bringing them more money.
Horrible evil people trying to get them to sign that after what happened to their beautiful home and property. Those people's lives have been turned upside down and that's what they do to them? Angers me!!
At least this young woman had the common sense to not consent to thier nonsense - this is outrageous and this company needs to be held accountable. Covid made a lot more people become aware of just how captured the FDA and CDC are and now a lot more people are waking up to just how captured the EPA is. If we still had functioning regulatory agencies in this country none of this would be happening.
It's bigger than Ohio, Ohio River has vinyl chloride in it. That goes right into the Mississippi River. This will affect multiple states and cities water supply
As others have said, SIGN NOTHING! This is going to be a massive long term issue and signing away liability or taking a small amount of money in exchange for bot being allowed to sue is not worth it.
What a bunch of BS! It's time for a major class action suit. I would want the government to give me a fair market value for my property and I'm out. This Administration is completely ignoring this man-made environmental disaster. Children's lives have been affected. And they're saying the water is safe???? What about the runoff from all the soil that will wind up in wells and creeks? We haven't heard the last of this disaster.
@@dynjarren5454 And why shouldn't they? I don't believe I said that the government should fully compensate these people. Full responsibility truly lies on Norfolk Western. But you have a government that is lying to the people and telling them it is safe to go back. It's nowhere near safe to live in that town. Would you drink the water?
Those polluters have shown no shame for what was done to these people. I doubt they care about the harm they have done. I think they just want to get the government to get them out of this fix. What do you think the government will do? Which side is the government on?
@@jefferydowler4655 It's sad that it's come down to this situation where we know what has been done cannot be undone. Have you noticed that the face of the Transportation Secretary reminds you of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of Mad Magazine?
How many desperate to get back into their homes people may have signed that form without reading it in it’s entirety thinking someone was finally there to “help” them.
That's a super misleading report. The contract clause shown doesn't indemnify any but the testing company and only indemnifies them for any accidental damage that may happen within the home due to the testing process. pause at 1:55 and read the damn thing.
Since the company is claiming that they gave the lady the wrong form, is the company going keep the other forms that the others signed and make sure they hold up in court?
Interesting he mentioned his eyes "pulsating" because another resident in a different interview mentioned feeling like his eyes were "bulging out of their sockets". Whatever those chemicals are, they seem to be causing some kind of neurological damage which is affecting people's eyes among other things
The paragraph seems to apply only to the company conducting the tests, and only for damage that might result from the testing, such as trampled plants or a broken crawl space screen. Norfolk Southern’s attorneys would have to be extremely clever to make that text indemnify their company for the train derailment.
I worked in the railcar industry for almost 6 years and these residents have no idea who they are up against. Big corporate elites are all over the rail industry.
So what it’s time to expose them. Publicly expose them on the media they only have power because they do everything in the dark and no one knows who they are
@@la6136 don't think they don't have control of the media. They've had well over 100 years to perfect the system they have in place and I'm being generous with the years it's been well over 100 years if I'm being honest. They'll protect their stocks no matter what.
It would seem to indicate they would just be signing to not hold the monitoring company liable for personal injury "arising from their Monitoring Team's performance of air monitoring or environmental sampling at the Property on the date of the signature below " , not from injury resulting from the train accident itself which would have been on a different date .
Please keep praying for these people, it is just horrible what they are going through and no one is helping them - this is the worst administration in the history of our country, horribly evil people
These people should contact a lab and get testing done independently, ask the lab to collect and preserve 5 samples for each area tested…… once the lawsuit goes ahead they can be certain of the toxins on the property after the accident. Hopefully everyone is healthy in years to come.
Even though it isn't their issue lol. This is way out of their league. The Rothschild own the rail line, this is a coordinated attack on our food supply. It's been ongoing since early 2020.
Hahahahahahaha, corporations at their finest.... They are not invested in your country. Why do you keep protecting them? For a couple of dollars? So patriotic!
@@BSU55 the new 🌎 order. Gates has been buying up farmland for years, and the food processing plants have been randomly burning down for about 2 years now.
Never sign ANYTHING like this without consulting a Good ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lawyer 1st. Read your homeowners insurance policy & double check the exclusions! Some accidents are not covered. LAWYERUP!!
Do NOT sign anything that may release ANYONE from liability.
..Hell No!.. Not even Employee wright ups by a Manager...
If you actually read the document it just indemnifies them for any potential damage caused from the testing itself, not legal proceedings related to the damage from the accident itself.
If we've learned anything from the last 3 years.....
Who signed the paperwork giving Pfizer immunity?
The fact that they had pointed out all these other accidents by train derailment is like they're trying to normalize this but it's not because there was just another derailment near Detroit yesterday and others in the country just in the last week involving toxic waste so someone is trying to sabotage this country and kill people you think maybe our government?
Are you kidding me? Sign a hold harmless agreement when they caused the worst environmental catastrophe we have ever seen in this country? DONT SIGN ANYTHING without an attorney…EVER.
There are people who should be jailed. This was not an accident!
I don't think it was an accident, I think they thought oh it's ohio no one will notice or care because its a low income area.... These people can't afford to up and leave. I can't believe nobody is helping them
@just_staceyeire390 it's deeper than that and Ohio isn't the only place...but you're on the right track (no pun intended lol)
If you think this is the worst in history, you haven't heard of three mile island, Camp Fire, Michigan PBB, Bunker Hill Mine, Atomic Homefront, Love Canal, and Centralia, Pennsylvania?
And I'm not an American citizen, let alone well versed in history.
@Daddysavage no I don't think it was an accident that's what I said but yeah I just seen more trains de railing there.... All carrying the same chemicals? There's nothing on our news at all I'm in Ireland
Absolutely DO NOT SIGN any document like that. What pieces of trash to even present such a thing at this moment
If you actually read the document it just indemnifies them for any potential damage caused from the testing itself, not legal proceedings related to the damage from the accident itself.
This is exactly how the filthy do things.
@@Jackquinn101 Your post might hold water EXCEPT the railroad already backtracked and said that the document was issued in error and should NOT have included that language.
Even Norfolk Southern admits they provided the wrong document. Norfolk may very upended these peoples lives and in this moment to add any stress to citizens who had nothing to do with the accident but now have to live with the potential horrific ramifications of all of this is just wrong. Norfolk should be doing testing and if they do cause any more damage to prop during this, they should be liable to cover any costs. Just do the right thing right now and stop trying to CYA, is that unreasonable? Even if for some reason they accidentally broke a window in the home during testing, they better pay for that shit! Sorry for the rant. Just feel horrible for this town and the people.
m.ua-cam.com/video/_9RwSjIoR00/v-deo.html
I like how Norfolk Southern gave the "wrong form" to hundreds of their neighbors to sign. Good grief. I'm so glad this woman and her boyfriend were wise and stood their ground, saying no to signing. She was smart to get a photo of the form as well. What a horrible, horrible thing all these folks are going through!!
I like it too especially since I have investments with them so they know how to protect my bottom line.
Do you understand that the forms were not for Norfolk Southern, but for the testing firm ONLY?
@@danielhawkins6425 Bullshizz, ever was, ever will be.
@@deshazo_henry Well, I guess your "bottom line" is more important than the town your company destroyed. Sleep well, knowing your investment dollars have damaged a community beyond repair.
@Andrew Please go to 1:33 of the video and pause and zoom in. You can clearly see in the paragraph below the two check boxes that it says: "Landowner agrees to indemnify, release, and hold harmless UNIFIED COMMAND [caps mine] from and against any and all legal claims, including for personal injury or property damage, arising from Monitoring Team's performance of air monitoring or environmental sampling at the Property on the date of signature below." No mention of Norfolk Southern whatsoever, except tangentially in the first paragraph. It's clear that the hold harmless is only in relation to the monitoring activities.
Praying for all the People, Animals, Wildlife, Land, Water, Air.
Amen!
Get a prenup y'all!
Is it working ?
@@J4-kjtdr8775 Can't hurt any 💔🙏💔
Prayer will not help here…
That is insane! NONE of those signed papers should be held up in court. Period.
At least the company was thinking outside the box.
@GenoX
Your kidding right?
@@genox3636 outside the box? that's pretty standard shit... it's more like in the box. in the shallowest box you can find.
They company said it was the "incorrect form", so all signed forms should be considered void!
@@lisagrafton2529 Hopefully.
The judge that sees this case should find that all the people who signed were compelled to sign under duress because they wanted their homes tested. This company needs to pay through the nose for this.
Not after NS hands him a bundle of cash......
If they said that piece was left in "Accidentally" The one's who signed should be voided.
This is how easily people are fooled. Democrats in DC know this tactic very well.
The indemnification specifically states “arising from the monitoring teams performance at the property on the date of signing”.
It’s no big deal… It’s just saying the homeowner isn’t going to sue the “inspection team” for damage or whatever caused during their inspection, and only on that day. This news story is just very poor reporting.
@@HiThisIsMine There was a lawyer that read the paper some of them signed and said he has seen some companies argue that they received compensation by signing those. He was telling them not to sign it. And they're refusing to test without signing. I trust an experienced lawyers opinion over internet strangers.
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "railroaded".
Smart lady. Don't sign anything and have a lawyer nearby.
Yes there will be many bloodsuckers interested in this case.
Absolutely
Hmm.. that lady looks like a dude ..my opinion
Smart people don’t stay in toxic environments.
They'll all be dead within two years from the chemical poisoning.
You'd have to be absolutely insane to sign any form of waiver after something like this.
I'm betting they didn't realize what they were signing
Most did simply because they were terrified of the situation they found themselves in. I reckon that a lot of us would do the same in these circumstances. And this company knows it.
yet, the majority of her neighbors did. THIS is why we're fucked. When they come round with the FEMA busses, most will gladly jump aboard.
Insane or absolutely desperate
@@michellecollins290 I disagree, most of us would not do the same...number one rule before you sign anything, read it thoroughly, especially the fine print and know what you are signing before you make that decision.
Please don’t sign away your rights to sue!!! How absolutely disgusting is it that this company is now leveraging the fact that people are terrified to be in their own homes to coerce them into signing away their rights to sue for damages! This company is worth $34 billion and instead of doing everything in their power using these resources to mitigate the harm, they are making this help that they owe conditioned on waiving their rights and ability to receive justice for their losses! If those health inspectors from the company showed up and rubbed salt in the wound by trying to trick me into signing this I would give them 10 seconds to get off my property and then release my dogs on them!
Good advice.
They also paid $25,000 to the city to evacuate the residents, which comes up to a measly $5 friggin dollars per person considering 5000 people had to be evacuated. This company needs to be sued to oblivion and every single member of their board must be thrown into prison.
Don't sign anything
The investment banks from Wall Street own the majority of common stock of Norfolk Southern.
Ask them
"Are those level four plates?"
remove your HVAC filters and put them in a sealed bag so they can be tested later and used as evidence in court some day. (also be sure to keep your vents closed and HVAC off if you cant simply leave the area.)
A "hold harmless" form is an indirect admission of guilt.
Absolutely.
More like a "direct" admission of guilt.
It’s not actually. But it is a very evil move to not test unless people sign a hold harmless agreement.
It's in no way an indirect admission of guilt. It's far worse than that - it says that you won't sue even if they are guilty. If it says "indemnify and hold harmless", which is the common term, it means you have a duty to pay for their lawyers if anyone else sues them over the incident. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if this is crap reporting though - I have a feeling that maybe it's just the water testing company who is looking for a hold harmless agreement, meaning "hey, we're just the testing guys - don't sue us...sue Norfolk Southern because they're the ones who caused the problem". That just makes more sense.
I'm in England, but this is really horrific, we all are starting to realise our governments don't give a damn about it's citizens
Really? Wow! I didn't know this....
From UK too. I've known for a long time but glad my fellow brits are starting to catch on. I'm seeing everyone questioning it these days. People who'd usually say we're being paranoid as well. It's pretty blatant now.
@@craigboden9455 it’s in our faces, blatant
@@craigboden9455 It's not just UK or US or whatever. Same crap worldwide. Such a short memory, such a naivete.
Starting to.. lol
This absolutely disgusting. The contracts should immediately be null and void for the apparent trickery to get stressed out landowners & towns people to sign the contract. They have been caught. My prayers to all the people, animals and every living thing that's been affected.
Pause the video and read the contract. It's not as nefarious as the news is suggesting.
@@Jake-Day It doesn’t relinquish their rights vis a vis the railroad. But the homeowners would be indemnifying the testing company from any claims. That means if the testing contractors who entered the property became ill, the homeowners would be liable. That’s a sticky wicket. I wouldn’t sign.
Why haven't people all evacuated??
@@genox3636to where? You gonna open your doors up?
@@Jake-Day You're a liar.
After doing NOTHING for almost 20 days - - why sign such an agreement? Reserve every right in this instance.
Wait... hundreds of her neighbors signed it?! So then they were all "accidentally"sent the wrong agreement too? C'mon! This needs to become the BIGGEST class action lawsuit in our history! SUE SUE SUE. And then maybe some safety laws will be put in place
This! Like come on! This is clear negligence and willful unaccountability!
We had some safety laws put in place, but unfortunately they were passed by Obama so one of the first things Trump did in office was remove those safety laws and regulations.
@@skankhunt3624 Stop blaming Trump for Joe Biden and his criminal enterprise.
You're consumed by greed and money---- *which is exactly the Satanic attitude that caused this*.
Greed won't fix their DNA ---which is changing as I write .
Sue for what? Like I mean, what are you going to sue for?
Since the form she did not sign was "an accidental indemnification agreement", will they cancel all the forms other people signed?
Good question!!!
You know the answer to that. However a good judge could throw them out since it was tied into a service as coercive.
Also if the company is paying for the testing they are not independent.
Agree with other poster. A court would find this coercion and a good judge would go off on them for even trying this. But these companies are gonna still try.
Anybody including Judges can be bought.
@@FirstNameLastName-wt5to I "like" how we have to rely on a "good" judge that isn't in someone's pocket like 99% of anything related to the damn gov't.
Wait a minute a railroad company maliciously and carelessly causes a disaster in your backyard and then they want you to sign a form indemnifying them from any harm by justice?
They are evil. Sorry, I can't find a better word!
Land grab from Blackrock.
Read the contract at 1:50. It's indemnifying them from harm caused in the process of testing on (testing date). Much better.
Hmmmm where have we heard something similar before?
PG&E similar situation except they killed many people, yet who goes to jail?
What that company is doing is disgusting!
They had plenty of enablers in the government. From all 'colors' in that spectrum.
Evil bastards. Unbelievable. Those people need to sue Norfolk Southern into oblivion. From what I've seen, this was totally preventable. Now it needs to be adjudicated of course but I would be filing. Those people have been harmed in just about every way.
Town should file civil suite right now for several billion to relocate and rebuild.
That's the point. Hegelian dialectic look it up. They created the problem and the solution is to make their lawyers billions in lawsuits
Except for the part where they elect officials who want to deregulate everything and then act shocked when this exact kind of thing happens. Like, duh.
A "Hold Harmless" contract agreement inspection company is *NOT* an independent company. (Edit: Came to find out that the inspection company is part of the Norfolk Southern team!)
To me, the contract reads (1:55 min.) that the Independent Company (United Command) will be held harmless for anything that happens to the homeowners while their workers are on the property, not Norfolk Southern. I suppose in our litigious society, a homeowner could potentially claim that they had to visit their home to open the door the day of inspection and therefore breathed in more chemicals or something and sue the inspection company for that new injury. Seems that is why they issue such a form.
@Govinda GovindaJi I agree when I read the bottom of that but then why didn't they just say that to explain it instead of having the train company come out and say it was the wrong paper?
@@govindagovindaji4662 Unified Command is not an independent company - read the entire contract, it's from NS, and Unified Command is what they are calling everyone involved in the air quality team. It's a slimy contract.
@@jd-no7rw Slimy. You said it. 👍
Owned by black rock vanguard and some other mother WEFFERS
It’s hard to imagine such an agreement holding up in court, as people are essentially signing under duress.
It said "Unified Command", not specifically Norfolk Southern. Perhaps it was the testing company with no relation to Norfolk Southern and this has been misrepresented? Do you know anything about the signatory not knowing who the parties to the contract are? Thats a serious question, as I don't.
@@McAwesomeReaper that was my first thought as well, as the testing company indicated that they were independent contractors, but the response from Norfolk Southern seemed to indicate that it was their form. I don’t know. If I ran an independent testing firm, I would definitely make sure to have a hold harmless clause to protect my business from being sued for someone else’s mistakes.
"Independent" here has the same meaning as the "independent" companies that tested tobacco products and said they were safe and doctor recommended.
@John Ivy definitely a possibility, but there have been environmental testing companies around for a while now.
@@McAwesomeReaper Google The Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health (CTEH, as shown in the document in the video), they are a known, shady private contractor that major corporations have hired in the past to absolve them of guilt in cases where they were later found guilty of safety violations or environmental disasters. This is the same private contractor that deemed the 2010 BP oil spill safe, even after that massive rabbit hole was uncovered. Mother Jones put out a great article on the subject in 2019, years before this current disaster, so they've been shady for years, we're just now catching wind of it again, especially with such a fishy "accidental" handout of a hold harmless contract. Other commenters are missing the point too, they're trying to act like the hold harmless agreement is a normality, and that CTEH is standing by the decision to hand these contracts out, but even as was reported in this news segment, they literally walked it back immediately, calling it an accident. So it's fishy from every angle, we have to realize that.
When they try and make people sign things they are trying to avoid being held accountable. I genuinely believe the long term of this wreck is way worse then they are telling people .
"We now have a New World Order"
George H.W. Bush -1991
The ground water in that region will be ruined basically forever. These people will need to cook, clean, drink, and shower with bottled water for their entire lives there, because I don't think even consumer distillation methods will remove these chemicals from the water.
@@bjollnirbjordsen9795 sincerely, is that a slight exaggeration?
@@kentstateflash nope, F O R E V E R, LOL. They obviously have no concept of time.
@@xploration1437 if these chemicals were going to explode either from government control “demolition” or naturally from pressure in the rail cars, what other alternative could’ve been used in this case for cleanup so the toxins weren’t released in the atmosphere?
This affects the whole country, there are 75 thousand farms in Ohio.
And don't forget about the farms in PA and WV... not very far from this disaster at all.
Vinyl chloride is in the Ohio River, that leads to the Mississippi River. This isn't just a Ohio problem, this is a major issue this will poison the water supply for multiple states and cities. Time to wake up
Yep. Where do we get a lot of our food from? Where does that water flow? Where does the air blow? Where does it rain?
And it's not just Ohio, either. There have been several, including plastics and hazmat cleanup companies. Dig deeper and buckle up.
That's right. The entire country can sue.
@@1Bonnie777 And what are we gonna get if we were to sue?
"...they're worried about their safety, but they're not worried about our safety." ..... Exactly
Right now the (railroad) is more worried about their $$$$$$ than anything else.
This is awful! Sue them!
when they ask you to sign release forms....they are in trouble..
How is that not 'signed under duress', or something along those lines? People's lives were uprooted in one swoop, and before they can even start to think, some POS rep disguises a contract to look like a permission slip and gets all the 'get out of jail free' cards they can? That RR company needs to be prosecuted for that, as well as the accident.
Google duress. Asking someone to sign something is not duress. Forcing someone to sign is.
And read the contract. The hold harmless agreement was to protect the air and water monitoring people from being held liable for things Norfolk southern did. READ. LEARN WHAT WORDS MEAN. Don't be this stupid for the rest of your life. But you will. My condolences.
Every worker you hire in your house to fix anything has that same document. Most people just sign it without reading it. They do it after the work has been done too. They tried it on me and I asked to read it, and the guy put his hand over it. So i took it and read it. It was basically saying they could kill you in your own house and they are not liable. Lawyers invented it and its a standard form.
that RR company is owned by BlackRock. they are never going to be held accountable, they own the current administration.
@@RichardCranium321 Richard you could be correct. Thing is if it is blackrock they are in the rare position of being able to easily handle this properly. They have the funds, they have the power. As long as they have morals they should be on top of things. Right?
@@insidejob8309 what morals? they are number one shareholder in Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing whilst simultaneously being granted the reconstruction contracts in Ukraine... after their bombs are dropped, they get paid to rebuild. they are a WEF partner, Larry Finck is buddies with SBF (ftx scam)
We need to apply extreme pressure to all involved and helping in the cover up.
DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING without reading all of it first, & get copies!
Officials KNOW they’re up against lawsuits, & the signature requests are blackmail!! I just hope the ones that don’t sign it stay safe, & watch their backs!! Sounds like corruption!
The real consequences of this disaster will only become evident in 20 year’s time when local ppl are in hospitals for the same reason. Corruption at the highest levels 💔
i don't think the world as it is going will last that long but then again who knows.
They need to get environmental cleanup crews in as soon as possible
Sue now, and later
Look at all the lawyer ads for mesothelioma and the Fort Bragg water lawsuits! Does that tell you something? Those poisonings were kept secret until peoples health problems couldn't be hidden any more! Be forwarned!
I don’t know if it will take 20 years, sadly probably sooner than that. But it’s not just this town. Water flows, wind carried that smoke cloud. Think of the farms in that area. We all eat that food.
Norfolk Southern tried to make her sign a “hold harmless” agreement before they would test.
Obviously, by the number of train wrecks they've had they should be sued out of existence. And prosecuted.
Snakes!
Actually that's good. A good judge could have them thrown out as coerced since it was tied to the service. And they are making decisions from a point of desperation. They just need to find a good judge. Good luck with that.
@@beccaboone7960birds aren't real. It doesn't matter if people sign it or not if this were to go to court the judge would probably rule it an accident and not force northfolks south for any damages
It should honestly be illegal to even ask people to sign something like this, they should be sued for this alone.
The Norfolk company needs to be held accountable for all of this. I'm disgusted and I am praying for these families🙏
Well, that's terrifying. It makes me feel extremely concerned for other residents who may have gotten tricked into signing this form. Thank goodness Ms. Schwarzwaelder had the presence of mind to snap that pic, and thank goodness the Norfolk Southern spokesperson was forced to go on record saying it was a "mistake." That "mistake" should hold true for anyone else who was "accidentally" given that form to sign. Yeesh. Just when you thought Norfolk Southern couldn't sink any lower . . .
the hold harmless sentence specifically states that applies only to the testing procedures that would happen on that day.
@@antipathy17 the hold harmless agreement specifically states any and all legal claims to the United command, which includes Norfolk.
They purposely made the statement ambiguous to trick people into signing. It doesn't state only for testing, it says including testing.
@@PO-yr1rh yes but specifically regarding testing for that day
if they were tricked into signing, with invalid information ..thats grounds to sue as well.
These days, getting people to sign a dodgy contract ..is not as good as it 'may' have been in the past. As long as you know that is.
A dodgy form/contract/wording ..can easily show the company is the guity one.
And if the rail company were getting people to sign this, while they still haven't 'figured out' all the chemicals released. That, is a solicitors dream case. Showing how the 'big man' bullies the small. Easy case really, especially if you keep the media involved (keep it high profile).
No, it means you cannot sue the company they work for the damages they did which is why the inspection team is there its a scam like me burning your house down and then me paying for people to inspect the damages they say that you started the fire from house stove or even lying about it not being fire damage plus since they working for me what you signed means you cannot sue me.
Like if someone burned your house down they get you to sign a piece of paper bulldoze your house and now no proof of fire damage.
I can't believe people signed that!
The company probably rushed them and forced them to sign it.
The same sheep that voted for Biden.
@@MyAramil You don't sign ANYTHING during a government created disaster to do with a chemical spill. Not even if they "rushed you".
After the last 3 years.. Yea i can believed it
Think about how dumb the average person is. Not that hard to fathom. My favorite part is the governor trying to villify the company like hes not a scumbag himself.
Nobody in their right mind would sign ANYTHING. Period.
Questions spring to mind:
1 Why is it not the EPA (or another federal/state body) running the tests?
2 If there is a possibility that Norfolk Southern could be held responsible (at least in part) then can the results of their tests be believable?
Republicans gutted the EPA.
The EPA is not doing the tests because this isn't Ukraine.
@@KevinSmith-qi5yn WTF are you doing.
@@KevinSmith-qi5yn how does that even make sense as a statement
@oldCynic, at this point do you WANT the government involved in any of this further?
GOOD! They should ALL refuse to sign that!!
"Hold Harmless"...that would be very sneaky if this prevent them from suing later.
This must be outlawed.
Many things must be outlawed, but as long as lobbyists exist, they won't be.
WTG to the residents not signing!!
She said A lot Did but she didn't.
No way would I sign that!!!!
I wouldn't sign anything...long term illness. Millions not a thousand to each person. Millions per person and get a class action against them and personal injury lawyers...immediately. This company has a history of wrong doings sue the pants off of them.
Where are all these ambulance-chasing lawyers when they're actually needed? Class action needed right now!
Millions? A guy was just released after 28 years and the country can't even compensate him for the years he lost. Don't you understand America is fucking broke? I don't even mean that as a joke. 100% serious, *America is broke!*
No one should sign those forms under any circumstances. Call a lawyer!!!!
Too late for that.
This breaks my heart!!! This was handled so poorly! I hope the local residents get justice. I cant imagine how this could turn out once the toxicology tests are conducted .
If tests are conducted a hee a hee a heee
Don’t be so naive. This wasn’t so poorly handled; it was intentionally handled exactly the way they wanted it to be handled. You have no idea who you’re dealing with if “it breaks your heart”. Seriously? Is that what you tell someone who kills your family while robbing your house? Cause that’s the level of malevolence we’re dealing with here. They will simply laugh at you and anyone else who says “it broke their heart”.
Testing data can be falsified. I was a lab tech. Look at the false data Monsanto provided to make their herbicide "safe". Just read "Whitewash" with regards to that company, cancer, and Round Up.
The local residents will all be dead in a matter of time. There will never be "justice" for what happened in Palestine. Biden is making sure of that. FEMA is already refusing help saying the situation doesn't warrant it. Keep in mind folks, the community that got hit voted for Trump.
Here I fixed your broken heart ❤
So the EPA says that the soil and ground water testing. Can be done better by the railroad than by us.
Exactly why rail workers tried to strike but fell on deaf ears. It’s too bad tragedies have to occur for change to happen. Hope this makes for better and safer working conditions, along with safer rails.
It won't! Nothing's been changed.
It's deeper than that.
That is not the stated reason rail workers were trying to organize a strike. Their main stated reason had to do with PTO precipitated by Covid quarantining requirements that kept them from working. They rejected a hefty raise and continued to demand more PTO instead.
@@grizz6150 You're wrong. As reported by Reuters December 2 of last year, under the title "Biden signs bill to block U.S. railroad strike", the Unions rejected a 24% raise and pushed for more PTO. Look it up for yourself. They keep deleting my comment with the link. I'll remind you that Reuters actually favors both Unions and the current admin in their reportage so the fact that they reported this at all is telling.
Biden ordered then not to strike. And he’s in Kiev today handing more money to the war mongers
Just outrageous how these citizens are being treated!
They are literally just trying to test for their safety and the form it shows in this video states that it is only applicable to any possible damage done by the testing procedure being performed on that day. They just didn't read that part out loud because it doesn't fit the narrative they are pushing for ratings.
I've had dealings with them, don't ever sign something they wrote period. They sent me and all my neighbors paperwork wanting us to sign a contract on the crossings going across the railroad when they spit a piece of property. It completely released them of any liability and put it all on the land owner. I refused.
good for them catching the screw over attempt.
I'm sure a lot of people signed it without reading and or understanding what it actually was. Good for this woman to not sign it, and for talking to the news about what they are really doing.
That’s how they got JD Vance, too.
They're absolute imbecile. Imagine someone fucking your health, your life, and all your belongings, and then you going onto sign that they didn't do nothing wrong; seriously, at that point, one does not deserve to live, judging by the disrespect of themselves alone; I really can't imagine those people signed without also doing spastic arm movements and chanting something along the lines of "heeeee i liek train man you friend".
This is becoming more and more disgusting as these people continue to be victimized. My heart goes out to those people.
Don't sign anything without talking to an attorney first 🤨
Mad props to that lady for not signing, that's how you do it.
Anybody that would sign that is literally brain flatline!!!!!!
It happens everyday.
Hold these people accountable for what they did to our land!
Who's land?
They just sneaked that clause in at the bottom of the document to protect themselves from any liabilities, smh.
Really? That’s hard to believe. How did you figure this out? Why would they do such a thing? That sounds unfair of them. I thought they were good corporate citizens.
Actually read it
These residents need to band together and get an attorney ASAP!!!
Man the nerve of this company........they need to be sued out of business........
That's ridiculous. When will people begin to hold these disgusting company to account?
Never. Duh. Companies bring in more tax money than an individual does. Who do you think the government is gonna side with? The ones bringing them more money.
They got some nerve asking people to sign that
If I live in that town, and they came to my house, they wouldn't be walking out my front door.
Memo to Norfolk Southern - Try and look vaguely concerned about the lives of people you have just screwed over, in some cases permanently.
THANK YOU FOR COVERING THIS STORY. KEEP GOING.
Smart not to sign
Horrible evil people trying to get them to sign that after what happened to their beautiful home and property. Those people's lives have been turned upside down and that's what they do to them? Angers me!!
You have to defend your rights. Good for them. I would have asked them to get the f off of my property.
At least this young woman had the common sense to not consent to thier nonsense - this is outrageous and this company needs to be held accountable. Covid made a lot more people become aware of just how captured the FDA and CDC are and now a lot more people are waking up to just how captured the EPA is. If we still had functioning regulatory agencies in this country none of this would be happening.
WHATEVER YOU DO RESIDENTS OF OHIO DON'T SIGN THAT FORM
It's bigger than Ohio, Ohio River has vinyl chloride in it. That goes right into the Mississippi River. This will affect multiple states and cities water supply
Please share this everywhere and often !!
As others have said, SIGN NOTHING!
This is going to be a massive long term issue and signing away liability or taking a small amount of money in exchange for bot being allowed to sue is not worth it.
Northfolk Southern tried to pull "a fast one" on that lady. Wow!!!!
What a bunch of BS!
It's time for a major class action suit.
I would want the government to give me a fair market value for my property and I'm out.
This Administration is completely ignoring this man-made environmental disaster.
Children's lives have been affected.
And they're saying the water is safe????
What about the runoff from all the soil that will wind up in wells and creeks?
We haven't heard the last of this disaster.
I agree but for the govt giving anything because when you say that you are saying the people pay for it. Why shouldn't the railroad pay?
@@dynjarren5454
And why shouldn't they?
I don't believe I said that the government should fully compensate these people.
Full responsibility truly lies on Norfolk Western.
But you have a government that is lying to the people and telling them it is safe to go back.
It's nowhere near safe to live in that town.
Would you drink the water?
@@dynjarren5454
You don't think the government hasn't done anything such as that before?
The company knows they are in the wrong and are trying to quickly and quietly get people to sign so they can't get sued. What a skeezy move.
Dont sign anything, call a lawyer. The whole town needs to sue them
Sue for what? What are they gonna sue for? To pay the courts? Cause they ain't getting shit if they win.
Those polluters have shown no shame for what was done to these people. I doubt they care about the harm they have done. I think they just want to get the government to get them out of this fix.
What do you think the government will do? Which side is the government on?
Talk to my man Pete Buddashit, they are all about clean air, water, and globule worming.
@@jefferydowler4655 It's sad that it's come down to this situation where we know what has been done cannot be undone.
Have you noticed that the face of the Transportation Secretary reminds you of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover of Mad Magazine?
You're white...doesn't matter.
How many desperate to get back into their homes people may have signed that form without reading it in it’s entirety thinking someone was finally there to “help” them.
That's a super misleading report. The contract clause shown doesn't indemnify any but the testing company and only indemnifies them for any accidental damage that may happen within the home due to the testing process. pause at 1:55 and read the damn thing.
Good eye. I stopped to read it and was thinking the same thing but I wasn't sure.
Since the company is claiming that they gave the lady the wrong form, is the company going keep the other forms that the others signed and make sure they hold up in court?
THIS is why you read the fine print of any contract
Interesting he mentioned his eyes "pulsating" because another resident in a different interview mentioned feeling like his eyes were "bulging out of their sockets". Whatever those chemicals are, they seem to be causing some kind of neurological damage which is affecting people's eyes among other things
Eyes are connected to the kidneys. The kidneys are trying to clear the toxins. I’m so very sorry they’re going through all this!!
@@Christina-oq4td hahaha 🤣 stupid
@@Simbson Excuse me?
The paragraph seems to apply only to the company conducting the tests, and only for damage that might result from the testing, such as trampled plants or a broken crawl space screen. Norfolk Southern’s attorneys would have to be extremely clever to make that text indemnify their company for the train derailment.
Noooo why did those people sign that?! As an attorney I’m CRINGING.
Smart move , lady ! I hope everyone else does the same !!
I worked in the railcar industry for almost 6 years and these residents have no idea who they are up against. Big corporate elites are all over the rail industry.
So what it’s time to expose them. Publicly expose them on the media they only have power because they do everything in the dark and no one knows who they are
@@la6136 don't think they don't have control of the media. They've had well over 100 years to perfect the system they have in place and I'm being generous with the years it's been well over 100 years if I'm being honest. They'll protect their stocks no matter what.
It would seem to indicate they would just be signing to not hold the monitoring company liable for personal injury "arising from their Monitoring Team's performance of air monitoring or environmental sampling at the Property on the date of the signature below " , not from injury resulting from the train accident itself which would have been on a different date .
Smart woman to not sign!
I would not sign anything. Prayers for everything breathing 🙏
Please keep praying for these people, it is just horrible what they are going through and no one is helping them - this is the worst administration in the history of our country, horribly evil people
No one is helping them ? What are you implying ?
I can't believe they were denied help 😳
You spelled regime wrong. And that regime is doing (or not doing) exactly as it's told.
Golden rule if you’re impacted by anyone else’s actions.
NEVER SIGN ANYTHING.
These people should contact a lab and get testing done independently, ask the lab to collect and preserve 5 samples for each area tested…… once the lawsuit goes ahead they can be certain of the toxins on the property after the accident. Hopefully everyone is healthy in years to come.
Happy that the media is holding the NS liable for the spill. They have money to fix this
Even though it isn't their issue lol. This is way out of their league. The Rothschild own the rail line, this is a coordinated attack on our food supply. It's been ongoing since early 2020.
They are so trying g to rip these people off, Dear God, this is so insane !!
Hahahahahahaha, corporations at their finest.... They are not invested in your country. Why do you keep protecting them?
For a couple of dollars?
So patriotic!
This railroad is railroading these victims.
this is gonna get really bad for those people near that site i feel sorry for them, it may take a while for any illness to come out.
Same train company derailed today in Michigan with hazardous materials.
Now even I am beginning to get suspicious ! What is going on ?
Slime, scum, prawn, corrupt, garbage trying to be sneaky and insult that homeowner.
Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Michigan, and Arizona all had trains derail with hazardous material
All in the same week right after Ohio derailed at the beginning of the week
@@BSU55 the new 🌎 order. Gates has been buying up farmland for years, and the food processing plants have been randomly burning down for about 2 years now.
I'd tell them where they could put their contract. 😳 And what they could do with it. Smart Lady. ❤️🤗
Never sign ANYTHING like this without consulting a Good ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lawyer 1st. Read your homeowners insurance policy & double check the exclusions! Some accidents are not covered. LAWYERUP!!