Love it when these chancers are caught out

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's quite rare to be granted Free Legal Aid in civil actions.

The likelihood here is that her solicitor will get done.

I did not know this. This is encouraging to hear.

neris wrote: »

shes from ballybrack, enough said

Right.....because everyone from Ballybrack engages in compo culture :rolleyes:

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Mother of God

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=87991086

I pulled a full kettle of freshly boiled water down over myself just over forty years ago, when I was about 16 months old. The boiling water pooled in one of those over-the-nappy-plastic-pants that were all the rage back then. I spent months face-down in a cot in Crumlin hospital, and got extensive skin grafts, which I managed to scratch away before they'd healed, because a kindly young nurse thought my restraints were too tight, and loosened them a bit. Cue more skin grafts. And significant scarring to this day.

So, if it's not too late, should I sue:
(A) The kettle company, for making the kettle,
(B) The auld fella, for boiling the kettle,
(C) The plastic pants manufacturer (this may be more on the grounds of taste),
(D) the young nurse, (genuine mistake - sh1t happens)
(E) myself, for yanking on the kettle cord and going the scratching,

Or

(F) all of the above?

We were made of hardier stuff back then, it seems...

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I know you're being sarcastic, but a lawyer would tell you that you should have sued your Dad.

In another thread I mentioned Moynihan v Moynihan, a famous Irish case where the parents of a toddler successfully sued the child's grandmother (i.e. their own mother) after the toddler scalded herself with a teapot.

The child's mum was helping the granny do the washing up, but the accident happened in granny's house, so granny was successfully sued.

Tell your father he owes you one*



*one hundred thousand euro

He bought me my first legal pint. I'd say we're quits.

davo10 wrote: »

Sorry guys, this one is a winner, granted it was in the US where they are gun toting psychopaths but the aunt who sued her 8 year old nephew for jumping into her arms with excitement and injured her is a special kind of retard.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/woman-sues-11-year-old-nephew-hug-broke-wrist.

“I was at a party recently, and it was difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvre plate,” she reportedly said.

You can't help but admire her for that.. :pac:

Two Tone wrote: »

Well not really in fairness - it's just where she's from. I'm sure you mean Ballybrack is a rough enough area (never heard of it in that context myself, unlike numerous other areas of Dublin) but that is a bit of a slur on the majority of people from Ballybrack.

shush lads if fools think all of ballybrack is like this they will never look at living there so houses relatively cheap in relation to south county dublin.;)

let them look down there noses

Time for a Autopilot trolly al la Tesla

When my physics teacher in 1968 was doing the acceleration down the plane experiment, he described the model car he had as headless coach:
prescient perhaps
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot-idUSKCN0ZN1XX

Greenmachine wrote: »

$113k for a broken wrist. x-ray, slap a cast on it. back in a few month, x-ray, healed up nicely.
You could build a hospital in some countries for that. *slight exaggeration.

I broke my wrist badly 20 years ago, total costs were about US$40k - I had to have an operation, etc.

Fortunately medical insurance covered 80%, but if I had not had insurance I would have been screwed.