When will people on the street understand that rich people have the right of way? The late Bob Novak understood this, when he just cold plowed into a pedestrian in D.C. and didn't even notice ("He's not dead, that's the main thing," Novak magnanimously said). Now some clod in New York has filed a $100 million lawsuit after he oafishly stuck his foot under a Colombian aristocrat's Mercedes tire. Andres Santo Domingo, a 31-year-old son of billionaire Julio Mario Santo Domingo, allegedly rolled over Ryan Coutu's foot and "slammed his arm with a rear-view mirror," the Daily News reports. Coutu suffered pain in his foot and "nerve damage in his right arm," but hey, at least he got to touch Santo Domingo's Mercedes free of charge.
Coutu's lawyer, despite suing for $100 million, doesn't want to overplay what happened: "It's not exactly Bonfire of the Vanities," but said that the heir and husband of a Vogue editor "intentionally left the scene of the accident. This is a rich, spoiled guy." Coutu "didn't want a lawsuit, he didn't want attention," but if there's any justice in America, the verdict will have Coutu running over poor people's feet in his Mercedes soon enough.
