Woman hurt by poster settles claim against FF

CamperMan

€38,000 .. no wonder she is smiling!

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/woman-hurt-by-poster-settles-claim-against-ff-3011286.html

working fool

Sighn of the times really !

Biggins

CamperMan wrote: »

€38,000 .. no wonder she is smiling!

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/woman-hurt-by-poster-settles-claim-against-ff-3011286.html

Indeed!

€38,000? I don't like FF but thats just madness of an amount.

El Weirdo

Does she suffer from memery loss since the incident?

TheZohanS

soft tissue injury to her neck

Oh me bleedin' whiplash....Nikiiiiiiiiiiita we're in de bleedin' moneeeee now.

She had turned back to hand Nikita a bag and, as she moved forward again, she struck her head against the poster

So she walked into it...FFS...

smash

"knocked her head against a low hanging election poster"

ffs

smog

In fairness a temporary wooden board at head height is just silly.
Cant see it be reclaimed from the company they contracted to erect the "posters" as sure it was just tax payers money.

Again no one accountable in the end

mikom

Thought this was gonna be about a FF shill on boards hurting someones feelings.

Liam Byrne

CamperMan wrote: »

€38,000 .. no wonder she is smiling!

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/woman-hurt-by-poster-settles-claim-against-ff-3011286.html

At least her eyesight's good......if it weren't she'd never have seen whose poster it was!

dark crystal

That's a crazy amount of compo for such a stupid injury.

super_furry

This is going to be fun. In the red corner, it's everyone's favourite politicial pariahs, Fianna Fail!

In the blue corner it's a Northside Dublin women with a daughter she named Nikita and feeds in McDonalds!

Have at it AH!

smash

super_furry wrote: »

In the blue corner it's a Northside Dublin women with a daughter she named Nikita and feeds in McDonalds!

I'm lovin' it

mikemac1

You see a lot of claims in around €38,000
Well the ones I've seen are mainly against Dublin Bus

That figure is a cut-off for the circuit court, any higher and you go to high court and legal fees are waaaaaaay higher

Hate FF but this women looks a chancer. It'd didn't blow in the wind and strike her, she walked into it
Nikita? I suppose the other daughter is Chantelle

Morlar

I think we have all been hurt by FF posters but that is taking the piss.

maybe this will encourage them to take down their stupid bloody election posters

Standard Toaster

Seems her face took a right bashing too.

LK_Dave

bluewolf wrote: »

maybe this will encourage them to take down their stupid bloody election posters

.....or encourage them not to put them up in the first place.

Keith186

Its a wonder they're allowed put these trash posters up.

This is from the same bunch of people who claimed its dangerous to put a For Sale ad in your car and you should need planning permission.

Robbo

If she'd have been clattered by one of the Coir posters at the time, she'd have been fine.

Where there's no sense, there's no feeling.

Posted from my €1.84 per hour job in the European Superarmy, Abortions-For-All Division

Liam Byrne

Biggins wrote: »

CamperMan wrote: »

€38,000 .. no wonder she is smiling!

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/woman-hurt-by-poster-settles-claim-against-ff-3011286.html

Indeed!

€38,000? I don't like FF but thats just madness of an amount.

I don't like compo culture but if an FF plonker was incompetent enough to put a poster at head height and I could reclaim some of my wasted taxes via a court case then fair game.

Robbo

There's also some **** gag in here about the public being beaten into submission and bribed over Lisbon 2, because more voting is less democratic.

cml387

Why did she name her daughter after Nikita Khruschev?

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSkhrushchev.JPG

Stiffler2

Her daughters name is Nikita and they were walking out of McDonalds

nuff said

SEPT 23 1989

Executive Posters Limited has no website which is strange for an advertising company

when i googled them i could only find an address

which came up as The Bloody Stream restaurant in Howth

Chuck Stone

I was takin' de daughtur dowin for hur dinnur and as we were coomin' back haome I bashes me noggin offa de eleckshin poaster and sustained a bit of de ol' whiplashins.

cml387

Stiffler2 wrote: »

Her daughters name is Nikita and they were walking out of McDonalds

nuff said

Nope,still not making the connection. Was Kruschev fond of a Big Mac?

marcsignal

CamperMan wrote: »

€38,000 .. no wonder she is smiling!

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/woman-hurt-by-poster-settles-claim-against-ff-3011286.html

in fairness, she was left badly disfigured :pac:

Cuddlesworth

What did she get 38k for? I doubt it was loss of earnings.

JupiterKid

I can understand if it was a poster of BIFFO. I mean, who has seen his mug and not been given a dose of post traumatic stress disorder? :-p

EGAR

Two question re compensation:

a. Does one have to pay tax on it?

b. If you are a SW recipient, do they cut your weekly amount?

jetsonx

The strokers get stroked.

Robbo

EGAR wrote: »

Two question re compensation:

a. Does one have to pay tax on it?

b. If you are a SW recipient, do they cut your weekly amount?

No to both questions.

EGAR

Robbo wrote: »

No to both questions.

if you have 38 grand in your account then you do not need the dole IMHO.

dilallio

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

What did she get 38k for? I doubt it was loss of earnings.

No.

Loss of earrings!

mike65

If enough of us walk into a poster next time out we can bankrupt Fianna Fail!

ArmaniJeanss

EGAR wrote: »

if you have 38 grand in your account then you do not need the dole IMHO.

Its 'compensation'.
The courts and lawyers decided that because of the incident she has negatively been affected in life quality to the tune of €38K. Hence she has been awarded €38K to bring her back to 'levels'.
So logically it shouldn't affect her welfare entitlements.

inforfun

I hate this compo culture.
But i truly hate having to slalom, bent down and whatever else to avoid crashing into some election poster with some guys ugly mug on it.

This midget is 5'5'' and runs into those things. I am 6'4" so imagine the fun i have with election posters. Never ran into them though because i watch out where i go.

If this €38.000 will make sure those things are not put lower than 3 meters, or even better, not at all, it would be worth it.

IvySlayer

I'm 5'6

And I walked into a election poster before, but IT WAS MY FAULT!! I wasn't looking where I was going, and I got smacked right in the head.

Mates found it funny though :pac:

TheZohanS

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I was takin' de daughtur dowin for hur dinnur and as we were coomin' back haome I bashes me noggin offa de eleckshin poaster and sustained a bit of de ol' whiplashins.

That's more of a Devon accent...

MsLaura

She can by 'Nikita' a new pair of trackies and maybe some condoms to prevent the further birth of more leaches in Dublin LOL

telekon

I bet she poured hot coffee onto her lap in McDonalds before headbutting the sign...


Look at the state of her! You just know its not the first time she's made a claim...

Mickey Dazzler

She should spend that money on a head transplant.

starbelgrade

Her local publican must be delighted.

lividduck

Was the poster banned, or just infracted?:D

Fuhrer

38 grand for a paper cut, fantastic.

Flincher

Sorry to burst the bubble, but it doesn't say she got €38,000. It said she setttled a 38k damages claim.

She took the claim in the Circuit Court, where the maximum you can be awarded is roughly 38k, and generally when taking a case in the Circuit Court, you don't specify an amount you are claiming for compensation, the usual phrase in the Personal Injuries Summons is that you are claiming damages "limited to the jurisdiction of the Court"

All we can tell from the article is that she took a case claiming up to 38k, and that case was settled between the parties, and the Court was told the case was settled. We don't know for how much.

SeaFields

Flincher wrote: »

We don't know for how much.

Big Mac meal?

TwoShedsJackson

Flincher wrote: »

Sorry to burst the bubble, but it doesn't say she got €38,000. It said she setttled a 38k damages claim.

She took the claim in the Circuit Court, where the maximum you can be awarded is roughly 38k, and generally when taking a case in the Circuit Court, you don't specify an amount you are claiming for compensation, the usual phrase in the Personal Injuries Summons is that you are claiming damages "limited to the jurisdiction of the Court"

All we can tell from the article is that she took a case claiming 38k, and that case was settled between the parties, and the Court was told the case was settled. We don't know for how much.

Would ya get out of AH with your 'logic' and your fancy legalese moon language and your 'actually reading the article in question before running to AH' rubbish!

Yakult

She took our money!

Paparazzo

Everyone should hit their heads off posters and claim, maybe the fúckers will stop putting them up.

Biggins

mike65 wrote: »

If enough of us walk into a poster next time out we can bankrupt Fianna Fail!

They are already in financial dire condition but their supporters are still fund raising by holding draws for members, etc.