Do I have a compo claim?

pxdf9i5cmoavkz

Hear me, fellow Boardsies

I had a terrible day today. The trauma I'm suffering is inhumane.

So there I was sitting at a cafe chatting to a colleague when suddenly I felt a warm liquid run down my back. Someone had a slight stumble and spilled their soup! Can you imagine?! My jacket was covered in soup and some of it also got onto my shirt. The worst is that my shirt is not even 2 months old and now it's completely ruined. It looks like a "baby vomited down my back"

It all happened so fast that I could not even process it all as the spiller quickly scamped away to tend to herself since she got the brunt of the soup spill. After everything calmed down and I patted myself clean as best I could I went back to having a conversation with my colleague.

And this is where it gets bad... real bad...

I just cannot shake the trauma of what happened to me. I will forever live with the thought that someone could sneak up behind me and spill soup on me. I'm sitting there chatting and being deathly afraid of everyone walking behind me. I cannot go back to work as there are people walking behind me all the time.

My question is this:
Do I have a compo claim against the establishment? Surely it's their fault for not guarding against this very common scenario and I'd also like to claim against the soup makers for making soup that stains clothing.

€70k a piece sounds reasonable I think?

Mint Sauce

Sounds like a souperb idea

Pinch Flat

Op €50,000 in it for you. Case dismissed.

AnRothar

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

€70k a piece sounds reasonable I think?

Don't sell yourself short.


I think €140K is a more reasonable figure to help you deal with the trauma.

Throw on a wash.

freshpopcorn

What's your surname?
Certain surnames seem to do better in court.

Gravelly

Are you a member of any dubious ethnic grouping that specialise in this kind of thing? It would help if you were.

brainfreeze

As a mother, I don't think you have a claim.

Outlaw Pete

You fool.

You should have jumped up and then proceeded to fall down the nearest staircase.

pxdf9i5cmoavkz

brainfreeze wrote: »

As a mother, I don't think you have a claim.

This genuinely happened. I have photographic evidence to prove it.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What's your surname?
Certain surnames seem to do better in court.

I've a Portuguese surname.

Gravelly wrote: »

Are you a member of any dubious ethnic grouping that specialise in this kind of thing? It would help if you were.

As above, I'm of Portuguese descent.

--


Seamus! I need you to get in on this. It's your specialty. There must be a way for this to victimize me!

MarkR

Whatever you do, don't stew on it. You'll only get hot and broth-ered.

magic_murph

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

Hear me, fellow Boardsies

I had a terrible day today. The trauma I'm suffering is inhumane.

So there I was sitting at a cafe chatting to a colleague when suddenly I felt a warm liquid run down my back. Someone had a slight stumble and spilled their soup! Can you imagine?! My jacket was covered in soup and some of it also got onto my shirt. The worst is that my shirt is not even 2 months old and now it's completely ruined. It looks like a "baby vomited down my back"

It all happened so fast that I could not even process it all as the spiller quickly scamped away to tend to herself since she got the brunt of the soup spill. After everything calmed down and I patted myself clean as best I could I went back to having a conversation with my colleague.

And this is where it gets bad... real bad...

I just cannot shake the trauma of what happened to me. I will forever live with the thought that someone could sneak up behind me and spill soup on me. I'm sitting there chatting and being deathly afraid of everyone walking behind me. I cannot go back to work as there are people walking behind me all the time.

My question is this:
Do I have a compo claim against the establishment? Surely it's their fault for not guarding against this very common scenario and I'd also like to claim against the soup makers for making soup that stains clothing.

€70k a piece sounds reasonable I think?

Snowflake

Gravelly

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

As above, I'm of Portuguese descent.

Were your parents cousins by any chance?

tretorn

Can you make your way to the nearest halting site.

You will get plenty of tips from the residents there.

Avatar MIA

Personally, I think you broth this all on yourself.

Liamario

Yes. Please give me your credit card details so I can fund your card immediately.

blade1

I'm surprised you didn't end up a vegetable!

Humphrey BoaGart

No need to get hot and brothered about it.;)

mad muffin

How does the saying go in Ireland?

You have your shïte…

Yer Da sells Avon

Gravelly wrote: »

Are you a member of any dubious ethnic grouping that specialise in this kind of thing? It would help if you were.

tretorn wrote: »

Can you make your way to the nearest halting site.

You will get plenty of tips from the residents there.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

What's your surname?
Certain surnames seem to do better in court.

The obsession with Travellers on AH recently is truly bizarre.

Yer Da sells Avon

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

The obsession with Travellers on AH recently is truly bizarre.

You'll come to terms with it somehow when they stop gaming the system.

Edgware

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

Hear me, fellow Boardsies

I had a terrible day today. The trauma I'm suffering is inhumane.

So there I was sitting at a cafe chatting to a colleague when suddenly I felt a warm liquid run down my back. Someone had a slight stumble and spilled their soup! Can you imagine?! My jacket was covered in soup and some of it also got onto my shirt. The worst is that my shirt is not even 2 months old and now it's completely ruined. It looks like a "baby vomited down my back"

It all happened so fast that I could not even process it all as the spiller quickly scamped away to tend to herself since she got the brunt of the soup spill. After everything calmed down and I patted myself clean as best I could I went back to having a conversation with my colleague.

And this is where it gets bad... real bad...

I just cannot shake the trauma of what happened to me. I will forever live with the thought that someone could sneak up behind me and spill soup on me. I'm sitting there chatting and being deathly afraid of everyone walking behind me. I cannot go back to work as there are people walking behind me all the time.

My question is this:
Do I have a compo claim against the establishment? Surely it's their fault for not guarding against this very common scenario and I'd also like to claim against the soup makers for making soup that stains clothing.

€70k a piece sounds reasonable I think?

Did you have a similar warm liquid run down your front to add to your discomfort?

Gravelly

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

The obsession with Travellers on AH recently is truly bizarre.

Not as bizarre as the obsession with defending them.

freshpopcorn

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

The obsession with Travellers on AH recently is truly bizarre.

I said nothing about travellers.
I just noticed certain names often appear in the papers/news regarding compensation claims.

Yer Da sells Avon

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I said nothing about travellers.
I just noticed certain names often appear in the papers/news regarding compensation claims.

Are you pretending now that you weren't referring to common Traveller surnames. The racism on AH is bad enough without a mod joining in. You should know better.

freshpopcorn

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Are you pretending now that you weren't referring to common Traveller surnames. The racism on AH is bad enough without a mod joining in. You should know better.

It's just an observation I've made that certain surnames often appear regarding compensation in the media.
How am I meant to know these people are travellers unless the article says they are.
It very rarely says they are.
I never said travellers receive a lot of compensation.

Gravelly

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It's just an observation I've made that certain surnames often appear regarding compensation in the media.
How am I meant to know these people are travellers unless the article says they are.
It very rarely says they are.

Bit of a racist assumption from that poster, no?

Yer Da sells Avon

freshpopcorn wrote: »

It's just an observation I've made that certain surnames often appear regarding compensation in the media.
How am I meant to know these people are travellers unless the article says they are.
It very rarely says they are.
I never said travellers receive a lot of compensation.

Of course, it wasn't a thinly-veiled reference to Travellers.

pxdf9i5cmoavkz

Thanks for all the replies thus far. I'm believe I have a strong case based on all the other compo claims that have come before me.

Was speaking to a colleague about my traumatic event and she mentioned that burns = €€€, now while the soup was hot, it did not scald me but surely it could have scalded me?? There is also the case that I don't have my jacket anymore and we're in the middle of winter! I'm going to freeze to death on my way home today. That's an extra layer of trauma and now physical discomfort.

Does anyone have contacts in the journalism area? This is front page news.

Poor foredner with no jacket for winter is permanently traumatized following soup spill

Odyssey 2005

Who are you gona claim off ?. Cafe owner ? The lady who spilled the soup ? Cambells for making it? The bowl manufacturer?. Get a life. I hope,if you do claim the other party is shown this thread..

brainfreeze

As a parent I agree with Odyssey 2005.

blade1

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Who are you gona claim off ?. Cafe owner ? The lady who spilled the soup ? Cambells for making it? The bowl manufacturer?.

Nobody Knorr's!!

Yer Da sells Avon

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

Was speaking to a colleague about my traumatic event and she mentioned that burns = €€€, now while the soup was hot, it did not scald me but surely it could have scalded me??

For a small fee, I could scald you. I'd use boiling water and sugar. The sugar sticks to the skin and intensifies the burning, not unlike napalm.

sligojoek

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

Thanks for all the replies thus far. I'm believe I have a strong case based on all the other compo claims that have come before me.

Was speaking to a colleague about my traumatic event and she mentioned that burns = €€€, now while the soup was hot, it did not scald me but surely it could have scalded me?? There is also the case that I don't have my jacket anymore and we're in the middle of winter! I'm going to freeze to death on my way home today. That's an extra layer of trauma and now physical discomfort.

Does anyone have contacts in the journalism area? This is front page news.

Ask Margaret Cash. She has all the journos numbers on speed dial.

Mr. CooL ICE

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

You should know better.

You should report him to the ad-ministrone-tors

greenspurs

Were you breastfeeding a baby at the time ??

Yer Da sells Avon

Mark Rippetoe wrote: »

You should report him to the ad-ministrone-tors

I couldn't be broth-ered. I'll stew over it for a ladle while.

Gravelly

greenspurs wrote: »

Were you breastfeeding a baby at the time ??

No, he's just big-boned.

gw80

And don't forget to tell them you can't walk down the soup aisle in the supermarket anymore for fear of getting flashbacks.,reem it into them.

Places like that would be too ERIN GRAVY RICH

Giveaway

With the increased crackdown on bogus complai ants and increases sceptism shown to whiplash claims the new gold rush is in claiming ptsd. Minor scratch on car but 6 claimants claiming flashbacks and recurring distressing thoughts and inability to cope
. Instantly cured with a payout,just like whiplash
Edit i have complete sympathy for ppl suffering genuinly from whiplash or ptsd. My ire is aimed at the bogus or exagerated claims

pleas advice

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

..bla bla bla spiller bla bla...

Pauliedragon

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

Hear me, fellow Boardsies

I had a terrible day today. The trauma I'm suffering is inhumane.

So there I was sitting at a cafe chatting to a colleague when suddenly I felt a warm liquid run down my back. Someone had a slight stumble and spilled their soup! Can you imagine?! My jacket was covered in soup and some of it also got onto my shirt. The worst is that my shirt is not even 2 months old and now it's completely ruined. It looks like a "baby vomited down my back"

It all happened so fast that I could not even process it all as the spiller quickly scamped away to tend to herself since she got the brunt of the soup spill. After everything calmed down and I patted myself clean as best I could I went back to having a conversation with my colleague.

And this is where it gets bad... real bad...

I just cannot shake the trauma of what happened to me. I will forever live with the thought that someone could sneak up behind me and spill soup on me. I'm sitting there chatting and being deathly afraid of everyone walking behind me. I cannot go back to work as there are people walking behind me all the time.

My question is this:
Do I have a compo claim against the establishment? Surely it's their fault for not guarding against this very common scenario and I'd also like to claim against the soup makers for making soup that stains clothing.

€70k a piece sounds reasonable I think?

Are you sure it was soup? Maybe the restaurant was serving bad food and that warm liquid was a bout of gastro and said person couldn't make the toilet? Another compo claim could be on the cards.

Cee-Jay-Cee

You should also claim that soup was previously your favourite food and now you have a phobia about it and that your life has completely changed as a result. It’ll earn you a cool €100k easily!

maccored

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

Thanks for all the replies thus far. I'm believe I have a strong case based on all the other compo claims that have come before me.

Was speaking to a colleague about my traumatic event and she mentioned that burns = €€€, now while the soup was hot, it did not scald me but surely it could have scalded me?? There is also the case that I don't have my jacket anymore and we're in the middle of winter! I'm going to freeze to death on my way home today. That's an extra layer of trauma and now physical discomfort.

Does anyone have contacts in the journalism area? This is front page news.

pity it was hot. if it had been cold you could have had an extra claim that you were expecting it to be hot

Avatar MIA

maccored wrote: »

pity it was hot. if it had been cold you could have had an extra claim that you were expecting it to be hot

Likewise, did it come with a fly in it?

Steve F

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

Hear me, fellow Boardsies

I had a terrible day today. The trauma I'm suffering is inhumane.

So there I was sitting at a cafe chatting to a colleague when suddenly I felt a warm liquid run down my back. Someone had a slight stumble and spilled their soup! Can you imagine?! My jacket was covered in soup and some of it also got onto my shirt. The worst is that my shirt is not even 2 months old and now it's completely ruined. It looks like a "baby vomited down my back"

It all happened so fast that I could not even process it all as the spiller quickly scamped away to tend to herself since she got the brunt of the soup spill. After everything calmed down and I patted myself clean as best I could I went back to having a conversation with my colleague.

And this is where it gets bad... real bad...

I just cannot shake the trauma of what happened to me. I will forever live with the thought that someone could sneak up behind me and spill soup on me. I'm sitting there chatting and being deathly afraid of everyone walking behind me. I cannot go back to work as there are people walking behind me all the time.

My question is this:
Do I have a compo claim against the establishment? Surely it's their fault for not guarding against this very common scenario and I'd also like to claim against the soup makers for making soup that stains clothing.

€70k a piece sounds reasonable I think?

I'm not sleeping tonight after reading this.Stuff of nightmares:eek:

Steve F

mad muffin wrote: »

How does the saying go in Ireland?

You have your shïte…

Nah...it's "ya will and yer Arse"

mr_edge_to_you

Fiona Dry Gown wrote: »

I've a Portuguese surname.



As above, I'm of Portuguese descent.

So somewhere down the line your family travelled?

klm1

It'd help your case if we knew if the spiller was a cereal spiller as well or if this was a once off.

GMSA

5.5k plus costs for a G&T to the face after pissing someone off.
https://amp-irishexaminer-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/man-awarded-5k-over-row-about-seating-at-wedding-900149.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishexaminer.com%2Fbreakingnews%2F%2Fireland%2Fman-awarded-5k-over-row-about-seating-at-wedding-900149.html