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14-03-2005, 13:04
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Re: Trespasser wins payout of £567,00 0
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 
Why, oh why, can't people in power, just once maybe, have some common sense.
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14-03-2005, 13:35
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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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14-03-2005, 13:55
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14-03-2005, 14:08
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14-03-2005, 14:24
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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 
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14-03-2005, 14:33
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Originally Posted by Mick
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A TEENAGE boy who fell through a roof while he was trespassing on private property has received £567,00 0 in compensation.
Carl Murphy, now 18, sued the owner of a warehouse after suffering serious head injuries when he plunged 40ft to the floor as a nine-year-old in 1996.
Victims of crime groups yesterday reacted angrily to the payout, which is 50 times more than the family of a murder victim can expect to receive from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority.
Mr Murphy, of Seaforth, Merseyside, suffered brain damage in the accident which was said by doctors to have caused such severe behavioural problems that he was expelled from two schools in the two years after his recovery.
†œAfter all Iâ₠™ve been through, I feel I really deserve this money,ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šà ¬Ã‚Â he said.
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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! |
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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 
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14-03-2005, 16:00
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Little scrote deserves nothing but a slap and a trip to see mum and dad |
They're in the slammer for dealing cocaine!! 
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14-03-2005, 16:03
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Little scrote deserves nothing but a slap and a trip to see mum and dad |
They're in the slammer for dealing cocaine!! |
Erm hence my comment 
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14-03-2005, 16:03
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And I bet he got legal aid for it as well
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14-03-2005, 16:07
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Re: Trespasser wins payout of £567,00 0
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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14-03-2005, 16:09
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Why, oh why, can't people in power, just once maybe, have some common sense.
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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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14-03-2005, 16:16
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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! |
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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14-03-2005, 16:23
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Re: Trespasser wins payout of £567,00 0
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Originally Posted by andyl
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! |
That's a novel way of saying he fell through the roof when he shouldn't have been up there in the first place 
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14-03-2005, 16:32
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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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14-03-2005, 17:19
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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 |
The fact that he was only nine when this happened is really quite irrelevant IMO.
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