Its a mad, mad, mad world...

[zebedee]

That does not surprise me!

[Earthbabe]

Oh yes, I heard about something similar where someone who survived because of CPR, but had a couple of broken ribs because the person doing the CPR had to be quite forceful, claimed and won compensation... I think that was in America too...

The joyous thing about that is that we are taught when doing CPR that we need to move the sternum up and down a good few inches to generating a pumping action. When the rib thing is brought up the resus trainers generally say that yes you may break a couple of ribs but at least the person is alive. So the next thing will be the advice will change and we will then be sued by the family for not pressing hard enough to mimic the pumping action of the heart.

Can't win - now why am I working in health care again

[Alice]

Look at your egg boxes from Asda. Mine says - Warning - this product contains egg.

[Alice]

And further - the milk cartons don't say contains milk. When I see the use by dates on there I wonder what is in those cartons. Certainly not anything approximating to fresh milk which has a very short life span.

[kirsty b]

I think one of the stupidest claims I heard was about the helicopter crew member who winched a man out of the water and needed CPR. The crewman saved the man's life, but was later, SUCCESSFULLY sued by him for causing severe bruising!!!!!
Personally I would want to kick the b*****d into the water again!!!!!

Me too! Probably would have complained if they'd left him to drown. No pleasing some people...

[kirsty b]

The company that makes the big Winibago vehicles - motorised home thingies - was successfully sued by a man who put it in cruise mode and went in the back to make a cup of tea. They had to change their booklet warning you not to do it!
I think killing yourself is nature's way of weeding out the terminally stupid.

Any body ever read the Darwin Awards? Tragically funny.

Also agree with Earthbabe, when practising CPR on the dummies, you have to use reasonable force to push the chest down. Stands to reason that bruising could result on a real person.

[Snadger]

I think killing yourself is nature's way of weeding out the terminally stupid.

Surely someone famous must have said this....if not, they should have!

[NOG]

In the McDonald's coffee case the coffee wasn't just hot it was scalding and the victim received 3RD degree burns over 6% of their body, spent 8 days in hospital and had to undergo skin grafting. The original claim of $20,000 dollars was rejected by McDonald's despite them admitting to heating their coffee to between 180 - 190 F. Further McDonald's received over 700 complaints in a ten year period from people being burnt by coffee. McDonald's got everything they deserved in my opinion.

Yep but she did put the cup of boiling coffe between her legs and then attempt to drive off with the top off whist adding the sugar.

In my opinion ambulances should carry captive bolt guns and if they come to an acident like that have the power to put the idiot out of their mesery and protect the Gene Pool for the rest of us.

[NOG]

Not to lower the tone but I used to do a bit of stripping, but gave it up when the HSE wanted me to have a tatoo on my scrotum stating
"may contain nuts"

[g51065]

We kept getting threats of court action and/or a visit from the bailliff for debts incurred by a previous occupier of our address, despite informing them (many times) that it was now ex council property and privately owned, this worried my other half greatly, so I contacted them to enquire as to the dates involved to see if the defaulter was still using our adress...... I was told they could'nt give that information due to customer confidentiality....!

[bubblewrap]

Not to lower the tone but I used to do a bit of stripping, but gave it up when the HSE wanted me to have a tatoo on my scrotum stating
"may contain nuts"

To read it you would have to have your ccrotum botoxed!!

[pigletwillie]

On an American airlines flight our little packet of nuts said

"Instructions for use. Open packet and eat nuts.
CAUTION, THIS PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN NUTS"

Erm is it me???

[TEB]

Yep but she did put the cup of boiling coffe between her legs and then attempt to drive off with the top off whist adding the sugar.

In my opinion ambulances should carry captive bolt guns and if they come to an acident like that have the power to put the idiot out of their mesery and protect the Gene Pool for the rest of us.

Thats not what I read,
After receiving the order, the grandson pulled his car forward and
stopped momentarily so that Liebeck could add cream and sugar to her
coffee. (Critics of civil justice, who have pounced on this case, often
charge that Liebeck was driving the car or that the vehicle was in
motion when she spilled the coffee; neither is true.) Liebeck placed
the cup between her knees and attempted to remove the plastic lid from
the cup. As she removed the lid, the entire contents of the cup spilled
into her lap.
taken from http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_coffee_case

The point is though that not everything we read or hear about is always the truth - weapons of mass destruction anyone

[Flummery]

Surely someone famous must have said this....if not, they should have!

I said it! (Famous for 15 seconds!)

[bubblewrap]

A American man(?) Is sueing a dry cleaners for loosing his trousers!
How much? $54,000,000.
How much for a suit?