Boy gets 20k for walking into bollard

fritzelly

https://www.thejournal.ie/bollard-blanchardstown-shopping-centre-4540637-Mar2019/

Seriously where has all personal responsibility gone.
Thinking the mother flung him at the bollard to get a claim, along the same lines as the woman trying to sue after slipping on grass instead of using the pavement.

p.s. couldn't find any other threads on it.

Giveaway

200 million other visits without incident. Surely the supervising adult(ie his mother) not be paying?

Atlantic Dawn

Can someone show me on Google Maps the height of these bollards? Did he have a need to wear glasses and the mother didn't bankroll them, should she be locked up for neglect?

The Satanist

Dopey Bollix

janfebmar

This country has gone to the dogs when people can get claims like that. No wonder insurance premiums are so high....which puts prices in the shop there high...so more people will shop on the internet, more often than not buying from abroad where businesses do not pay for such absurd claims.

Gatling

Another one yesterday which a retail store assistant tripped over a cardboard box in a store room and walked away with a payout

Atlantic Dawn

I suppose the one plus is the €20k claim will be Googlable for life with their names entered in to a search, the money is not even a fraction of slave wages at that huge price.

Losty Dublin

Is it me or are these sort of claims somewhat more prevalent from residents of certain parts of the city? Are such people clumsler or accident prone?

Richard Hillman

I would be retired at this stage if I sued for all the falls, bumps and grazes that befelled me when I was young

Jimbob1977

Disproportionate amount of accidents and general clumsiness in certain areas of West and North Dublin.

Without opening articles, you can guess where

beertons

If she ever takes him to the Cliff's of Moher, he's a goner for sure!

Losty Dublin

beertons wrote: »

If she ever takes him to the Cliff's of Moher, he's a goner for sure!

Yeah but think of the €€€€.

Atlantic Dawn

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Is it me or are these sort of claims somewhat more prevalent from residents of certain parts of the city? Are such people clumsler or accident prone?

Limerick is the premier league of claims...



https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2018/0531/967315-personal-injury/

fullstop

Same judge gave some bint €24k for falling over a box yesterday, took €4K away for contributory negligence cause she wasn’t looking where she was going. So if she was negligent why give her a reward of €24k FFS.

fritzelly

fullstop wrote: »

Same judge gave some bint €24k for falling over a box yesterday, took €4K away for contributory negligence cause she wasn’t looking where she was going. So if she was negligent why give her a reward of €24k FFS.

If it wasn't real you wouldn't believe it
Your Honour there was no signs saying beware of lamp poles (and who hasn't done that!)

MonkieSocks

fritzelly wrote: »

If it wasn't real you wouldn't believe it
Your Honour there was no signs saying beware of lamp poles (and who hasn't done that!)

These cunce would probably walk into the Sign and make a claim

Infini

https://www.thejournal.ie/bollard-blanchardstown-shopping-centre-4540637-Mar2019/?utm_source=shortlink

So yet again the courts "award" someone a ridiculous amount of cash for "Reasons". I swear why cant they legislate to at least tighten up laws to stop blatent chancers here.

Edit: Not actually blaming the kid here but the parent who obviously looks like they took this out of oppertunism.

Mint Sauce

Can I sue for the time I tripped on the Escalators 30 years ago. The small scar on my shin still haunts me to this day.

Well it doesn't really, but Allders Department store does not have to know that.

Markcheese

So his mother doesn't have to watch out for him, but the shopping centre does,
And to top it off, a couple of stitches is worth 20 grand...

heldel00

My 3 year old banged his head recently in aldi and when i was running over to him i slipped on frozen peas that some ar$ehole had obviously burst a bag open and left lying. Straight down on my knee and was limping the following day.
Did it dawn on me to sue? No because i was not watching my child sufficiently otherwise it wouldn't have happened. Man beside me told me to stay down and called me "an ee-git" when i got up.

kneemos

That Bollard should obviously have cones around it.

BeerWolf

Irish Guitarist

It sounds ridiculous and all but am I the only one thinking it's fucking stupid to print the address of a child who has just gotten €20,000?

Kivaro

kneemos wrote: »

That Bollard should obviously have cones around it.

And the cones should have caution tape around it.
And a security guard.

kneemos

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

It sounds ridiculous and all but am I the only one thinking it's fucking stupid to print the address of a child who has just gotten €20,000?

Probably didn't give it to him in a carrier bag in fairness.

facehugger99

There's a local business near us that has closed down in the last couple of weeks. I used to go to school with the guy who runs it, they used to employ 5 people full-time.

I was chatting him recently and he said they just couldn't afford the insurance premiums anymore, apparently the have gone crazy-high in the last few years.

These ridiculous compo awards have a real knock-on effect in the economy. It outrageous, both the size of the awards and the favorable view the courts seem to take against any injury suffered.

major bill

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/20000-for-boy-who-cut-eyebrow-on-bollard-37912107.html

The Ma has a face on her like she knows the system is ****ed

20K and laughing

check_six

The high awards are justified because they are based on the "Book of Quantum" values.

Get a scratch - get €X,000, lose your nose - get €X,000,000, etc.

But what are these Quantums based on, you ask?

They're only bloody based on all the previous crazy high awards from preceding cases.

People have also speculated that €X,000 isn't a big amount to someone in the judiciary, but I'm wondering if there is a % of the claim that goes to the legal team therefore making them invested in higher and higher awards. Don't know how to unlink that kind of mess.

branie2

the story was in the Irish Daily Star as well

Sardonicat

FFS! Sterile strips and glue used to close the cut, didn't require sutures! That's worth €20,000? I suppose if he had needed to be stitched it would have doubled the pay out.

neris

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Is it me or are these sort of claims somewhat more prevalent from residents of certain parts of the city? Are such people clumsler or accident prone?

not just residents from certain parts of dublin. a certain part of society country wide

neris

janfebmar wrote: »

This country has gone to the dogs when people can get claims like that. No wonder insurance premiums are so high....which puts prices in the shop there high...so more people will shop on the internet, more often than not buying from abroad where businesses do not pay for such absurd claims.

we have a claim in against our business for a small cut. premium went up over 300%

Autecher

This lad's compo will be in the millions! Stupidity pays lads!

arybvtcw0eolkf

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Can someone show me on Google Maps the height of these bollards? Did he have a need to wear glasses and the mother didn't bankroll them, should she be locked up for neglect?

suicide_circus

the judiciary strikes again

professore

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I suppose the one plus is the €20k claim will be Googlable for life with their names entered in to a search, the money is not even a fraction of slave wages at that huge price.

Thanks to our good friends at the EU there is now the "Right to be forgotten" so you can't google them

neris

Autecher wrote: »

This lad's compo will be in the millions! Stupidity pays lads!

Well precedent has been set by that dope who fell off the back of a Luas.

YOU LITERALLY BEAT ME TO IT BUY SECONDS!!!!!!:eek:

100% TRUE!!

Autecher

Greyson Uptight Pear wrote: »

Jaysus Greyson Uptight Pear! Did you give the picture that title?! If anyone is a pr*ck here it would be the mother for pursuing this for 6 years. I wonder did she even for 1 second in the last 6 years contemplate just letting this go?

El_Bee

Really considering taking a strategic dive for a 5 figure sum, much better odds on winning than playing the lotto that's for sure.

Cantona's Collars

What's next,they remove the bollards and someone gets compo for walking into an illegally parked car.

_Brian

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I suppose the one plus is the €20k claim will be Googlable for life with their names entered in to a search, the money is not even a fraction of slave wages at that huge price.

Simple application for “right to be forgotten” and it will be removed from internet searches forever.

Autecher

El_Bee wrote: »

Really considering taking a strategic dive for a 5 figure sum, much better odds on winning than playing the lotto that's for sure.

Double your chances by giving yourself an "accidental" paper cut with a lotto ticket.

erica74

Greyson Uptight Pear wrote: »

The name of that attachment is perfection:D

janfebmar

Autecher wrote: »

Jaysus Makikomi! Did you give the picture that title?! If anyone is a pr*ck here it would be the mother for pursuing this for 6 years.

Correct. And our politicians off on junkets around the world this week are also p***ks for allowing claims and insurance premiums to rise so much, which the rest of us hard working folk are struggling to pay for.

Atoms for Peace

beertons wrote: »

If she ever takes him to the Cliff's of Moher, he's a goner for sure!

Jez don't be giving the fookers ideas, they'd probably throw their mothers off a cliff if it meant easy money.