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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...524886,00.html

I think I will stop playing the National Lottery and just go trespass on someone roof, hope to fall through and hey presto I am on to a winner! :rolleyes:

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What!! how on Earth did he pull that off, what we reward criminals now and sue the victim.

Okay I shall go out rob three cars and cut myself breaking into a house, and sue the car owners for not fitting there brakes right and making me crash and the house owner for having shards of class behind the wall to make me hurt myself.

Then I can go to Spain for a year to recover.

Takes the MICK this does....

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Saw this in The Sun.

I'm going to do this tonight and retire. I think its a great idea. All that money for trying to rob a house.

Wrong wrong wrong

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:grind: :grind: :grind:

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I would give him the 567,000quid then fine him 4million for being a ********.

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Don't forget, you do need the cheek and lack of self-respect that w*****s like him have to go through with a case like this.

Certainly goes to show that justice does not always prevail.

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He won the case because the judge found that the company whose roof the boy fell through were negligent in not fixing a security fence, thus enabling the boy to trespass and hurt himself :rolleyes:
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Not being judgemental here.............. :rolleyes:

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Ah yes, the 'stupidity' law - you have to take into account the fact that stupid little ***** will try anything, and you have to stop them...

Anyway, I'm off to stick my kn*b in the light socket, and then sue the makers for a million, because no where on the pack does it say you shouldn't do it.

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It was a security fence - i.e. intended to keep out thieves, not a safety fence. Since it wasn't meant as protection of the safety of the public there should be no legal compulsion to have or maintain it.

Imagine a burglar breaking into your house, and breaks his ankle in the process.
Then he sues you because you didn't have a burglar alarm, because if you had then he wouldn't have broken in and hurt his ankle.

I just hope that since the company is 'now defunct' (according to the article) that there is no-one to pay the damages...

Of course the precedent it sets is possibly worse than the payout it awarded.

No, nor me. :rolleyes:

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:shocking: Have you done it yet? What happened? :rofl:

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Anyone else think the company should counter-sue for damage done to the roof?

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You know what? I actually found it strangely erotic... I think I might have another go...

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:rofl:


Just have to give you a greenie for that.
:D

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It'll be down to their insurance company to pay.....they probably had 'run off' insurance.....

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Okay i have ****ed my pants
split my sides
my dog cat and gf are giving me looks

enough enough :rofl:

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This isn't new... I have heard of other cases before.

Now I have heard another one, it makes me wonder how many times this sort of thing happens :erm:

Why, oh why, can't people in power, just once maybe, have some common sense.

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I wonder why this guy doesn't sue the homeowner for stress after being woken up so suddenly.

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thats ok then , i should be in for a couple of million for my accident that was not my fault and my employer has admitted 100% liability for it , when i do i will hire an island in the carribean and all of you can come along for a great big p!ss up , whats that , oh a pig just flew by :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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On a similar theme...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4347573.stm

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I'm with you on this one Paul, I was nearly killed by an idiot who was drunk and got absolutely nothing like the payout this fool got :rolleyes:

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What can you say apart from
What a w*nker
Maybe the company should have counter sued for damage done to the fence, the floor and the roof. Little scrote deserves nothing but a slap and a trip to see mum and dad :mad:

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They're in the slammer for dealing cocaine!! :p:

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Erm hence my comment ;)

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:mad: And I bet he got legal aid for it as well :mad:

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I'm not going to get into this one (music to many ears I'm sure ;)) but would just like to remind that the kid was only nine when this happened and was looking for a football when he entered the premises (and this is probably why the judgement went against the company). No further comment on the rights or wrongs of that judgement from me though. Honest! :)

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Nah, that'll never happen. They'd have to start thinking.

On a serious note. I hate this "Compensation Culture" we seem to be living in. We seem to be increasingly following "Oh, it's gone wrong, let's sue" model the Americans follow. I personally think we should be following an "Oh, it's gone wrong, let's fix it" model.

Having that, I would be more inclined to agree with the payout if the bloke had been on the factory roof for legitimate reasons (say, he was fixing it). This guy does not deserve compensation.

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Then no doubt there will be no comments that the child was tresspassing at the time of the accident and if he and his mates hadn't have been breaking the law at the time then the accident wouldn't have happened ...... Looking around a building for your ball is one thing, climbing up onto the roof with a group of your mates is another. It's like suing the manufacturer of a match after you burn yourself commiting arson.

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That's a novel way of saying he fell through the roof when he shouldn't have been up there in the first place :D

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Okay give him the cash he deserved it...honestly.. i think he did.















then fine the sod 4million quid for being such a cheeky tw*t, and give that to the family which is suffereing.

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The fact that he was only nine when this happened is really quite irrelevant IMO.

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Stories like this really cheer you up don't they, personally I think he not have gotten a penny since he should nto have been there in the first place.

Surely money like this could be put to more WORTHY causes in any case, not freeloading idiots that screw the system for all its worth.

This country... :(

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I'm afraid the Darwin Awards just don't thin out the gene pool fast enough to stop idiots like this costing people money :(

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I don't know how they qualifies, as he didn't remove himself from the gene pool... He could still produce offspring?

Although when the American Humane Society are thrrough with him, I don't think he will!

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:tu: Agreed.

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Not without these:
;)

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That's a spicy meatball!

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*writes out a 100 times, I must read stuff properly before posting...*

Still, no 'arm done eh? I gotta hand it to him, that was really ballsy of him.

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I would like to point out that at the time of of the original incident the person concerned was 9 years old...At the time he was too young to be prosecuted and indeed the law would regard him as being a victim AT THAT TIME because no 9 year old should be able to obtain such easy access to a site.The company were negligent.. and any child of 9 is deemed as not having the ability to view matters as an adult.

What ever else has happened in the interim has no bearing on the case.

I have to say that when I first read this story I thought the same as everyone else.That is until I reread it and noted how old he was when the accident occured. :erm:

However I do think that perhaps the sum is a tad over the top when other people don't get similar treatment for similar occurences...It does seem unfair that other victims of negligence or crime don't recieve similar sums. :(

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:tu: That was my point (though not as eloquently put). I'm still keeping out though, honest ;) I'll just watch from a safe distance ;)

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Well can the innocent really win?

If you put up barbed wire/razor wire and a good fence, some parent is going to complain about it, I guess the council will then come along and make you take it down. The very next day some kid will walk onto your property climb up on your roof, fall and sue you for not making your property criminal proof.

Lets get it straight then, you have the choice of a claim from the thief/ trespasser injuring himself on your fence whilst gaining entry, or making a claim from injuring himself if he's successful at getting in. :rolleyes:

Which is it to be!

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What was he doing there in the first place??? I wish they would counter sue him for tresspass and then that would wipe the sumg smile of the little brats face!!!!

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His parents are legally responsible for him then, surely. But then, they don't seem to be responsible adults do they?

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And I would like to point out that at the age of 9 I was not out of sight of either my parents or a responsible adult. Perhaps he should have sued his parents (when they are released) and take away the money they made from their coke dealing?

9 years old... can't be expected to be responsible? Then he shouldn't be out on his own.

Jeeez, whatever next? "He ran out in front of a car, so the driver was negligent in knocking him over"?

He should get nothing.

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Now you know we don't like agreeing with you ;) Unfortunately a lot of people on this forum will have to for a change lol :tu:

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The problem is that nobody wants to put their hands up and take the blame anymore. Not just in this case, but whenever anything goes wrong. As soon as anyone is injured, or inconvenienced, or have their feelings hurt, they are up in arms and looking to pass the buck, hopefully with a fat compensation cheque in reply. Wouldn't it be lovely if people could learn to say "It was my own fault, I was in the wrong".

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At the age of 9 I was wandering all over the place and out of sight of my parents.I was allowed out to play and I range far and wide,climbing trees,wading in streams and generally being a kid.However I was reminded time and time and time again about going near the stream....Kids don't always listen.However my gran always knew I'd been in the stream because her coven of local 'witches' knew who I was and reported in....Not every child in this day and age lives in such a tight community.

Luckily I never came across a place in my travels where I could get into trouble like this lad.Now you can say my parents were negligent but I think they allowed me the freedom to be a child,unlike today's children who can't even go out to play a game of footy....

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Incog is that Coven still running? if so could you pm me some details? thanks.

Sorry for the :notopic: post.

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You were just a yob Coggy, let's face it ;) :)

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been nice knowing you ;) :D :D :D :D

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:Sprint: :eek: :eek:

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You brave man....

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............ or suicidally stupid :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes:

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No just a normal child of the 50's and 60's. ;)

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Yikes! I knew I should have kept off this thread! As Keith Barrett says Coggy, it's just a bit of fun. More seriously, you're spot on. It's much harder to let kids be kids these days. I have a 9 and 10 year old and they have way less freedom than I had simply because there are fewer places for them to play which are accessible and safe. But they are still allowed out of my sight - as long as I know where they are and they know the boundaries - but whatever you can't keep your eyes on them all the time. As for the kid in question it's almost a there but the grace of God go I with me as I used to get into all the usual scrapes and fights. At the end of the day this kid was just trying to get his ball back, not mug an old lady. Not saying the level of compo was right in the grand scheme of things, but he was just a nipper and nippers need protecting from themselves (and it's not a nipper's fault if his parents aren't up to much).

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So he fell 40 feet whilst getting his ball back!

I think the payment was too small, if he could kick a ball onto a roof 40ft up at the age of 9 he could of been playing for England now. :rolleyes:

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It was reported on the radio he was getting his ball back. If that's wrong apologies on behalf of me and Five Live :)

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No, I wasn't getting at you for that.

It says in the article he was getting his ball back, I was being sarcastic about him obviously kicking his ball 40 feet up onto the roof, that he fell off when he was getting it back.

I assumed he had been seriously hurt from the incident, but the article goes on to say he was expelled from school a few days or weeks after the incident.

Wierd story.

EDIT: The link from the first post in this thread says he was expelled form school within a week of the incident!

So he wasn't physically hurt that much, I wonder if his parents were looking for a payout..... Was his name Chesney like the one in Coronation Street by any chance. :rolleyes:

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Anyone who can kick a ball 40 feet up should be playing Rugby, not football... (did they specify what type of ball it was?)

(cough! Beckham!!! NO!!!)

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I just thought I'd add that one of the main reasons that work even have anyone doing security where I am is just in case any little loved one has broken into the site and hurt themselves.

It is hoped that either myself of the other guy will be about to render assitence to them.

If I FIND a trespasser I'm not supposed to even approach them, but go hide in my portakabin and hide then call the police.

Mind you of the few that I HAVE found I'd say that %90 run away at the sight of me anyway. The other %10 had to be introduced to my pal Mr Maglite.

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Would that be the 6x D Cell one??

:-)

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I couldn't possibly comment :)

p.s it is a red one ;)

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Lol, mines Black... ooh, am I allowed to say that?

:D

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Well i'm on a boring Equalities and Diversity course tomorrow so I'm sure I'll be qualified to let you know by this time tomorrow! :rolleyes:

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lol, look upon it as an opportunity....

;)