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25k for 4 minutes in a lift!

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  • #2
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    s15r330 wrote: »
    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-trapped-in-shopping-centre-lift-for-just-over-four-minutes-awarded-25000-35112582.html

    Absolute joke, may some act of God cause her exactly 25k worth of damage to her house that insurance won't cover!

    Time to try every lift in the country!!


  • #3
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    It's a day for it alright

    http://bit.ly/2dFExZY

    A Dublin Airport ambulance driver who thought her vehicle was going to be struck by a Ryanair plane as it was taking off is suing the Irish Aviation Authority



  • #4
    s15r330
    Closed Accounts Posts: 942 ✭✭✭s15r330


    People watching too much Judge Judy!


  • #5
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    I have been trap in a lift a lot longer then that , i remember getting out the lift the engineer and company owner outside said "sorry about that", i just carried on walking and got on with my day like a bloody fool!


  • #6
    The flying mouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,915 ✭✭✭The flying mouse


    Imagine how much she would have getting if it was an elevator...This thread will just go up and down.


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  • #7
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Dammit myself and a few friends got stuck in a lift for over an hour as the fire brigade had a more urgent call to deal with. I'm a tool for fobbing it off and getting on with life. Must be more dramatic in the future.

    Dramatic = Profit


  • #8
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Hang on a chronic claustrophobia sufferer gets into lift... Something is not right.


  • #9
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Hang on a chronic claustrophobia sufferer gets into lift... Something is not right.

    Sound like a joke


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    There's one rule for eggshells, and another for the rest of us.


  • #11
    dinorebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dinorebel


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Hang on a chronic claustrophobia sufferer gets into lift... Something is not right.
    It elevated her symptoms.


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  • #12
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    dinorebel wrote: »
    It elevated her symptoms.

    I feel shafted by the amount awarded.


  • #13
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    I feel shafted by the amount awarded.

    I bet it lifted her mood


  • #14
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,596 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    She will spend the rest of her life looking behind her back for someone photographing her getting in to a lift.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    s15r330 wrote: »
    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-trapped-in-shopping-centre-lift-for-just-over-four-minutes-awarded-25000-35112582.html

    Absolute joke, may some act of God cause her exactly 25k worth of damage to her house that insurance won't cover!

    Its always some working class chancer who claims for these things. Or non working class indeed. A neighbor of my parents had several claims against Dublin corpo for tripping etc, and got enough for a hefty deposit on her house.

    Its ridiculous, nothing seems to be just a life event any more, it has to be someone's fault and you have to be monetarilycompensated for it. What a greedy grubby society we have become.


  • #16
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    She will spend the rest of her life looking behind her back for someone photographing her getting in to a lift.

    I'm sure she is taking steps to avoid that


  • #17
    Got2TurnAround
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭Got2TurnAround


    It's a sign of how bad things are when I read this and was surprised it was only 25k. I've seen much larger amounts of money being awarded in the courts for less "traumatic" injuries.


  • #18
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Its always some working class chancer who claims for these things. Or non working class indeed. A neighbor of my parents had several claims against Dublin corpo for tripping etc, and got enough for a hefty deposit on her house.

    Its ridiculous, nothing seems to be just a life event any more, it has to be someone's fault and you have to be monetarilycompensated for it. What a greedy grubby society we have become.

    Legal profession whilst does some good comes across as one huge scam in this country. No doubt be they get their share.


  • #19
    Donutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 348 ✭✭Donutz


    s15r330 wrote:
    Absolute joke, may some act of God cause her exactly 25k worth of damage to her house that insurance won't cover!


    Bad enough we have chancers looking for compensation for incidents like this, but I think the judges giving the awards are just as bad.


  • #20
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,637 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Donutz wrote: »
    Bad enough we have chancers looking for compensation for incidents like this, but I think the judges giving the awards are just as bad.

    Well, that escalated quickly.


  • #21
    Bigby
    Site Banned Posts: 19 ✭Bigby


    "Subsequently, she was not able to go into rooms without leaving the door open. She could not go into fitting rooms in shops as she could not bear to have the door closed.

    In public toilets, she had to prop her handbag against the door rather than lock it for fear if she did it would not open again."

    LOL


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
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    ChikiChiki wrote: »
    Legal profession whilst does some good comes across as one huge scam in this country. No doubt be they get their share.
    It's entirely possible that the legal fees are equal to, or in excess of, the award.

    Nothing unusual about 10k awards with 20k+ legal fees in total. That's why it often pays to settle, even when there is no liability.

    I don't think a lawyer should be paid a pittance, by any means. But currently, legal fees are a pisstake, and seem to result in the kind of unjust side-effects like people feeling forced to settle unnecessarily, or people with genuine cases not having access to representation at all.


  • #23
    The Raptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,433 ✭✭✭The Raptor


    If you suffer from claustrophobia, why would you get into a lift?


  • #24
    Commotion Ocean
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Commotion Ocean


    I'm sitting in the car waiting on my gf to finish work. I bought a cup of coffee and a Danish from Centra to snack on whilst I'm on boards.

    I spilt it on my lap (my fault :p ) Clumsy me !!
    How much compo do you think I can get for my car smelling like Starbucks for a week?


  • #25
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    The Raptor wrote: »
    If you suffer from claustrophobia, why would you get into a lift?

    It was childhood claustrophobia, that she had gotten over until this incident brought it back. Rather conveniently.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #26
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Hang on a chronic claustrophobia sufferer gets into lift... Something is not right.

    i used to be claustrophobic and id always use the styairs,i still use the stairs a lot of the time but if i have kid with me i use the lift

    however it seems a lot of money


  • #27
    jimmy blevins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 475 ✭✭jimmy blevins


    I ****ing despise those people that get these kinds of payouts, been through plenty of **** in my life without looking for sympathy never mind a payout and to see chancers getting a years pay for a minor inconvenience is an insult to common decency.


  • #28
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    PARlance wrote: »
    Donutz wrote: »
    Bad enough we have chancers looking for compensation for incidents like this, but I think the judges giving the awards are just as bad.

    Well, that escalated quickly.

    No it was a lift.


  • #29
    Letree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭Letree


    Why are judges so careless with money. That 25k had to come from somewhere.


  • #30
    gctest50
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭gctest50


    Meanwhile :

    http://bit.ly/2dACcQF

    One of the State’s s most prolific armed robbers has been arrested during the course of an attempted robbery on a cash-in-transit van in Co Meath.

    Gardaí recovered a firearm while they were arresting the three men in their 30s outside a bank in Dunboyne.




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  • #31
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Hang on a chronic claustrophobia sufferer gets into lift... Something is not right.

    Not defending the person in the article - but I am not claustrophobic but I have a fear of lifts (and flying) but I sometimes am forced to use a lift.
    A few times while in hospital and in a wheelchair for short periods of time and I near have a panic attack and need calming down, its just a stupid phobia but I can't shake it, I think I am going to die, even if the logical part of my head says "no but lifts have brakes that go if it falls down" etc.

    The article person may be a while chancer to be fair.
    But its not implausible that a person with a claustrophobia (or fear of lifts) is forced into one. Not what happened in the article etc


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