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Luas Surfing

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  • 19-10-2018 3:08pm
    #1
    Kilometres na gcopaleen
    Registered Users Posts: 15 ✭


    Did you ever see anyone do it or did you ever do it yourself??


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    #2
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Looks like a very handy way to make a few €'s


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    #3
    p to the e
    Registered Users Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭p to the e


    You'd want to have a severe brain injury to try it.


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    People used to do it in the subway in NYC.

    Looks like an accident waiting to happen.


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    #5
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    I honestly can't believe what I am reading. 550k for knowingly jumping onto the side of a tram door as it moves.

    What did she expect to happen here?

    It's honestly official judges have lost there minds.


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    #6
    hatrickpatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 17,797 ✭✭✭✭hatrickpatrick


    The Luas moves far too slowly for this to be any sort of thrill ride, where's your sense of adventure? Assuming this means riding on top of it like I think it does, go InterCity or go home :D


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    Hector Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 8,810 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    She got a severe brain injury from it ??
    Yet she had a kid recently - hmmm she's only 20, so we can expect she'll have 5 more minimum - no doubt she'll claim an allowance for them (that 500k has other places to be pissed away for sure).
    Unsustainable, Irish society is truly ****ed, and this vermin needs to be removed from it.


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    Somedaythefire
    Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭Somedaythefire


    Hector Savage wrote: »
    She got a severe brain injury from it ??
    Yet she had a kid recently - hmmm she's only 20, so we can expect she'll have 5 more minimum - no doubt she'll claim an allowance for them (that 500k has other places to be pissed away for sure).
    Unsustainable, Irish society is truly ****ed, and this vermin needs to be removed from it.
    You sure she got the brain injury and not yourself?


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,430 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I honestly think the judge should've been given that award because obviously he has some form of a brain injury


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    Dravokivich
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    What judge?


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    #11
    Midnight_EG
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    Is there a story or a link here that's missing or am I just silly?


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    #12
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭wally79


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Is there a story or a link here that's missing or am I just silly?

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/woman-injured-tram-surfing-on-luas-awarded-550-000-1.3669184?mode=amp


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    No link is showing for me so:

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/woman-injured-tram-surfing-on-luas-awarded-550-000-1.3669184


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    #14
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    We love rewarding irresponsible behaviour in this country.

    hope this is appealed


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    bucketybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 18,132 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    I could understand a dumbass judge giving money away like that, but why would Veolia settle for that amount out of court?

    Half a million approved but I can't see any mention what injuries she got apart from a bump on the head? What is the money supposed to be compensation for? Why didn't Veolia let it go to a ruling?


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,430 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Dravokivich wrote: »
    What judge?

    From the new article:
    Approving the settlement, Mr Justice Cross said it was not necessary for the court to tell Ms Kelly she did a “silly thing” as she knew that. However, he commended her for her honesty.


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    #17
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I see the brain trust has become a mother ...shudders

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher


    At least she knows how to lay on her back.


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    #19
    Shakey_jake
    Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭Shakey_jake


    What a dump we have become

    We must be literally mad to put up with it


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    #20
    griffin100
    Registered Users Posts: 4,772 ✭✭✭griffin100


    No surprise really with that judge.


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    #21
    alchemist33
    Registered Users Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Every time one if these stories is put up I think "That's ridiculous. You couldn't get any worse than that". Yet here I am open-mouthed again with a judgement that defies any kind of sense. It's almost excusable that some people don't look where they're walking and get money as a result, but when someone does something incredibly stupid and gets injured, expects somebody else to reward... sorry, compensate ... them for their stupidity, and then the state actually buys this ****... I .... I ... aaaarrgghhh!!!!


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    #22
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,301 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    antodeco wrote: »
    I honestly think the judge should've been given that award because obviously he has some form of a brain injury

    The judge made no award.

    Strange the amount of people who totally misread the story but are quick to throw in a brain-injury joke.


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    Ronaldinho
    Registered Users Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Ronaldinho


    Would you have to pay tax on that settlement?


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,430 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    The judge made no award.

    Strange the amount of people who totally misread the story but are quick to throw in a brain-injury joke.

    He approved the settlement as per the above quote I posted...


    It's amazing how many people selectively read an article, and miss a specific quote and are quick to insult a poster..


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    #25
    average_runner
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    She is a stupid person and that child she had will have no chance in life


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    circular flexing
    Registered Users Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭circular flexing


    antodeco wrote: »
    He approved the settlement as per the above quote I posted...


    It's amazing how many people selectively read an article, and miss a specific quote and are quick to insult a poster..


    Can a judge refuse to approve a settlement that has been agreed between plaintiff/defendant? I've never heard of that happening.


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    #27
    solerina
    Registered Users Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭solerina


    Utterly disgraceful, there is no way she should have been given money, she fell off the side of the Luas where she should never have been in the first place. Brain injury or no brain injury it was her own fault


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    #28
    claiomh solais
    Registered Users Posts: 140 ✭✭claiomh solais


    average_runner wrote: »
    She is a stupid person and that child she had will have no chance in life

    Is she though? Every morning getting up early and squeezing ourselves onto overcrowded public transport, working all day and many times late into the evening saving up so we can afford a tiny house, and if we're lucky, two kids.

    She'll be sitting on her fat arse getting a cut of our wages for her entire life. That settlement will get her a nice house next to her mam that she'll probably fill with kids.


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    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,430 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    circular flexing wrote: »
    Can a judge refuse to approve a settlement that has been agreed between plaintiff/defendant? I've never heard of that happening.

    Good point, don't know. My assumption is yes, because otherwise the statement if "approved the settlement" is a moot point


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    #30
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Peter Casey will sort these out in his second term once he boxes off the travellers in his first.

    Casey for emporer!


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    na1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 921 ✭✭✭na1


    antodeco wrote: »
    He approved the settlement as per the above quote I posted...


    It's amazing how many people selectively read an article, and miss a specific quote and are quick to insult a poster..

    99,999 posts?
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