Police officer to sue crime victim after tripping over curb
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Stephen Fry said something about the fact that if one step in a flight of stairs is even a couple of millimeters higher or lower than the rest, you're likely to trip.
As far as I'm aware there are legal standards for the height of a curb. As creatures of habit we've come to recognise this standard somatically. If the curb is outside of these legal boundaries of height then you could easily misjudge it and trip.
My Granddad was telling me of a similar situation back in Bournemouth where a guy sued the council and actually won on those grounds.
I don't understand how being careless and hurting yourself by your own actions is anyone else's fault. This is one of the most hilarious lawsuits I've seen in a while.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;40109425]Stephen Fry said something about the fact that if one step in a flight of stairs is even a couple of millimeters higher or lower than the rest, you're likely to trip.
As far as I'm aware there are legal standards for the height of a curb. As creatures of habit we've come to recognise this standard somatically. If the curb is outside of these legal boundaries of height then you could easily misjudge it and trip.
My Granddad was telling me of a similar situation back in Bournemouth where a guy sued the council and actually won on those grounds.[/QUOTE]
This is a curb, not a flight of stairs, they don't work on the same principle.
Genuinely expected this to be in America.
I want to visit the police station she works out of and trip on my way in and sue it for exorbitant amounts
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;40109151]This is actually a legitimate type of lawsuit, liability over hazards on private property.
For instance, let's say you have a brick walkway in front of your home, from the sidewalk to your front door. Your mailbox is at your front door. If one of those bricks on your walkway is loose, and your mailcarrier steps on it and breaks an ankle, you'd be liable for that. Your mailcarrier can claim that it's a hazard, it's on the path your mailcarrier must walk on to deliver your mail, and you didn't fix it.
This policewoman is trying to claim the same sort of thing, that there was a hazard, due in part to insufficient lighting. Whether she has a case or not is another question.[/QUOTE]
Not even in the dimest light possible would someone trip on that.
By her logic, she should be careful with sidewalks. That isn't an hazard even to either one of my grans, and they all drag their feet when they walk.
[QUOTE=dass;40105938]If the world was made of people who sue other people for stuff like this, everyone would be either a poor person or an asshole trying to cash in.[/QUOTE]
You speak as if this isn't already the case.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;40106310]If you'd have a communistic system there, you wouldn't have money-hungry people suing everyone for everything. You capitalists need to open your eyes and see that this system of yours will be your death.
Take arms already damnit and overthrow your corrupt government, the power belongst to the proletariat.[/QUOTE]
nonsense the invisible hand of the free market will push the curbs down for us so people don't even need to sue in the first place.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40112259]nonsense the invisible hand of the free market will push the curbs down for us so people don't even need to sue in the first place.[/QUOTE]
No, you need the workers to be organized under the Iron fist of the state to break the curbs down, with sickles [for some reason] and hammers.
ayn rand says that the curbs that aren't able to lower themselves don't deserve to be lowered at all
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