Student sues Coppers after failing to get the shift

Copper_pipe

http://www.oxygen.ie/student_sues_coppers_after_failing_to_get_the_shift.PAGE6392.html

A 21 year-old man is seeking legal action against well-known Dublin nightclub Copper Face Jacks when he failed to 'get the shift' on Saturday the 29th of June.

Brian O’Donnell, with an address of Mulview park Clondalkin, spent an entire night creeping on girls with friend, Brian Murphy, and failed to get any shift for the entire night.

In his action against the Harcourt St nightclub, the plaintiff claimed that 'getting the shift' was the sole reason for attending the premises and called for grounds of false advertising and misleading the consumer into visiting the venue.

Mr O Donnell told the High Court that the females in the premises were "awful hard work" and that many were "up their own hole" when O Donnell and Murphy approached them or danced towards them in their direction. O Donnell's complaints also rest on the level of lighting during the night he was present, and deemed it 'slightly brighter than usual.'

Mr Justice Sean Ryan ruled today that this was an “unfortunate” accident and is assessing whether Mr O’Donnell’s complaints could be attributed to the venue and whether the nightclub is negligent.

While the level of female entrants to the nightclub was under the defendant’s control, the dancing activity and pick up lines from Mr O’Donnell and Mr Murphy was not and it was possible the incident lied solely on the plaintiff, the Court heard.

The case is still pending a full investigation of the incident, while both parties are appealing for witnesses to clarify exactly what happened.

Can you sue for anything now?

biko

I really hope this is a true story

December2012

Copper_pipe wrote: »

http://www.oxygen.ie/student_sues_coppers_after_failing_to_get_the_shift.PAGE6392.html




Can you sue for anything now?

Like suing a website for a joke story?

Yes.

Yes you can.

oxygen are like theonion

Flibbles

Wasn't aware there was an irish version of theOnion, caught me out anyway!

floggg

It should have been obvious when the case got before the high court in less than two weeks since the date of the incident.

Like the Irish legal system could ever be so efficient!!!!

knucklehead6

oh dear. OP, I have a big field i want to sell you, with full planning permission and 100000 people wanting to part with their cash to buy the houses. All you need to do is build them. Interested?

the purple tin

Is it April already

floggg

Flibbles wrote: »

Wasn't aware there was an irish version of theOnion, caught me out anyway!

People actually thought this was real?


And nobody goes to coppers for "the shift." Anything less than "the ride" is a wasted night.

mcwinning

I have never seen anyone from Dublin refer to 'getting the shift'. Fake.

Nemeses

Seems like it , Hopefully its a very late April fools joke! I mean, that's being reported on Oxygens website!


EDIT: Damn - This post is too late

Annasopra

Flibbles wrote: »

Wasn't aware there was an irish version of theOnion, caught me out anyway!

Seriously! You believed that?

I Heart Internet

mcwinning wrote: »

I have never seen anyone from Dublin refer to 'getting the shift'. Fake.

Is that what tipped you off?

hatrickpatrick

Funny thing is although this is a spoof it's the kind of thing I can genuinely imagine happening, a bit like this "RTE News Report":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgY4-qzCO5o

Francie Barrett

Tragically unfunny.

holystungun9

Anyone who got to the end of that and believed it was true needs to take a good long look at themselves and reconsider procreating. Seriously.

Flibbles

floggg wrote: »

People actually thought this was real?


And nobody goes to coppers for "the shift." Anything less than "the ride" is a wasted night.

There's been far more ridiculous claims that have actually gone to court. This is pretty tame in comparison.

floggg

Flibbles wrote: »

There's been far more ridiculous claims that have actually gone to court. This is pretty tame in comparison.

There really hasn't been.

Annasopra

Flibbles wrote: »

There's been far more ridiculous claims that have actually gone to court.

Like what? links, examples or gtfo

December2012

mcwinning wrote: »

I have never seen anyone from Dublin refer to 'getting the shift'. Fake.

Nobody from Dublin goes to Coppers. Just people who move here.

At least the Onion are funny ...

Flibbles

mango salsa wrote: »

Like what? links, examples or gtfo

Feel free to pick, I'd call most, if not all of these far more ridiculous.



http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/repossessed-car-class-action-lawsuit-seeks-5m-for-gas-09544.html

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=8637538

http://manning-sossamon.com/pantfacts/

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/homeless-man-sues-parents-article-1.1269358

Annasopra

Flibbles wrote: »

Feel free to pick, I'd call most, if not all of these far more ridiculous.



http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/repossessed-car-class-action-lawsuit-seeks-5m-for-gas-09544.html

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=8637538

http://manning-sossamon.com/pantfacts/

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/homeless-man-sues-parents-article-1.1269358

Irrelevant seeing as they're not Irish

Flibbles

mango salsa wrote: »

Irrelevant seeing as they're not Irish

Alright, in Ireland there hasn't been. But considering the way the Irish legal system is going with people suing their town council for every stubbed toe, I can easily imagine it becoming as ridiculous here as in the US.

floggg

Flibbles wrote: »

Alright, in Ireland there hasn't been. But considering the way the Irish legal system is going with people suing their town council for every stubbed toe, I can easily imagine it becoming as ridiculous here as in the US.

Stop making this into a serious thread.

But Irish courts are generally very slow to impose liability on local authorities "for every stubbed toe" on public policy grounds as they place a high value on the public utilities they perform and don't want them unduly constrained by a fear of litigation.

So we ain't heading anywhere near there yet.

It's really just a case of the public having a preference for exaggerated and sensationalised versions of the truth.

VampiricPadraig

For a fake news article, that was kinda funny.

I wonder what would happen if there was such a case.

floggg

VampiricPadraig wrote: »

For a fake news article, that was kinda funny.

I wonder what would happen if there was such a case.

It would be tossed immediately upon landing on a judges desk.