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That's just precious

Lawyer Bill Potts, who is not acting for the Wright-Smiths, said such lawsuits threatened the future of school sport by forcing up insurance costs.

"While the girl's injuries are regrettable, there is also a sense with claims like this that we've gone too far and are becoming a litigious-crazy society like the US,'' he said.

Now hold on a second, mate. That sounds worse than any suit here in the United States.

Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care. When I was a little kid, I had a friend over playing Frisbee with me in the yard. He threw it up onto the roof of our two story house, so I told him he had to go up and get it. We got the ladder and he climbed up. While up there, he lost his footing and tumbled down the steep angle, over the side and onto the trampoline, which bounced him into the rose bushes where a rabid fox had holed up to die. The fox viciously attacked him, tearing off both his ears and his nose. So on top of the rabies treatment, he needed massive reconstructive surgery, which in addition to his other injuries, would've cost the family a few million dollars in the end. They didn't have health insurance, so suing our homeowner's provider was the only way he'd get the care he needed. He still got screwed though, because the insurance company wrote them a check for $50,000 and said that was the legal maximum they had to pay. I think they ended up just scrapping the kid and starting over.

Hey, atleast it's not in America...

Ow! My eye! I'm not supposed to get tennis balls in it!

Can anyone find an English-language version of TFA?

Seriously, though, this is at a 'top private school'. So it's just legal violence between socioeconomic predators, not anything normal people need to be concerned about.

Rich people problems.

spentmiles: Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care.

Know how I know you DNRTFA?

spentmiles: Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care. When I was a little kid, I had a friend over playing Frisbee with me in the yard. He threw it up onto the roof of our two story house, so I told him he had to go up and get it. We got the ladder and he climbed up. While up there, he lost his footing and tumbled down the steep angle, over the side and onto the trampoline, which bounced him into the rose bushes where a rabid fox had holed up to die. The fox viciously attacked him, tearing off both his ears and his nose. So on top of the rabies treatment, he needed massive reconstructive surgery, which in addition to his other injuries, would've cost the family a few million dollars in the end. They didn't have health insurance, so suing our homeowner's provider was the only way he'd get the care he needed. He still got screwed though, because the insurance company wrote them a check for $50,000 and said that was the legal maximum they had to pay. I think they ended up just scrapping the kid and starting over.

CSB. It doesn't pertain to this incident though. THIS architect father is just an ahole.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: spentmiles: Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care.

Know how I know you DNRTFA?

Know how I know you DNRTFComment?

She wasn't wearing a helmet and elbow pads?
What is this?
1950?

CSB: in my gym class someone accidentally got hit in the head with a golf club. I'm guessing they probably didn't let him keep teaching that golf unit.

two words - 'loser pays'

That stuff sort of happens when kids are just learning the game, doesn't it? I mean, at least it happened to me and the kids I played with. Hell, if every kid on the softball team could sue anytime they got hit with the ball, we would have all retired by now. Besides, we were required to have insurance AND sign a liability waiver before we could play sports. I imagined that this would be world-wide standard protocol.

Headso: Hey, atleast it's not in America...

Which was utterly surprising. But seriously, who plays tennis with safety goggles? Also:

FTA: The claim alleges Julia had hit classmate Finley Enright-Burns in the eye with a tennis ball during a tennis lesson at the Mudgeeraba school last October. It alleges Julia was "smashing'' balls back to Finley on the baseline when the incident happened.

If your kid is so slow that he is standing at the baseline and cannot avoid a "smash" from a 13 year old girl, then you need to get your kid to a different private school. Maybe one that is more suitable for your "special" snowflake.

/I'm assuming the 13 year old girl is not a tennis prodigy.

Aulus: FTFA: The claim, filed on behalf of Finley by her architect father Paul Burns, also names Somerset College and its Jay Deacon's Tennis School as defendants.

OK, I can see filing a liability claim against the school for failure to provide safety equipment, but filing suit against the girl? fark you, Paul Burns. Had I gotten that suit filed against my daughter, I would have been on the phone in a minute, calling him up and asking just when he became such a massive pussy.

The safe bet when drafting a complaint is to name everyone who could possibly be liable, and then dismiss them out of the suit later. Otherwise defendants can blame nonparties, which mucks up the litigation and can cause issues if the case ends up going to trial.

Wish I had known about this in high school. I took a rocket shot into my ball bag during a soccer game my senior year. Doubled over in pain, almost vommed on the field. Didn't realize I couldve sued for emotional damage. Of course, that never came to mind because I'm not a massive pu**y and my parents aren't litigious.

Hmm, seems the US obsession with suing for every mishap is spreading.

/coming soon to AU: requiring a waiver of liability on file before your precious snowflake can participate in sports.

Extreme suing: the ultimate sport.

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: spentmiles: Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care.

Know how I know you DNRTFA?

You need to turn in your humor card and sarcasm badge immediately.

/oh, and spentmiles, favorited

vudukungfu: She wasn't wearing a helmet and elbow pads?
What is this?
1950?

I believe Shakespeare had some sort of advice on this type of thing.

"My thirteen year old has no assets. Knock yourself out."

Salt Lick Steady: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: spentmiles: Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care.

Know how I know you DNRTFA?

You need to turn in your humor card and sarcasm badge immediately.

/oh, and spentmiles, favorited

someone just got gobsmacked!

Private_Citizen: Hmm, seems the US obsession with suing for every mishap is spreading.

The reason the US appears to be so litigious is due to the low pleading standard. You couple that with the costs of discovery - especially electronic discovery - and you get a lot of defendants for whom it is cheaper to simply settle than to go through the process.

But in the US, there are principles that are regularly established to curb such things. For example, assumption of risk would apply in this situation, and this lawsuit would go absolutely nowhere. And if the parents of the snowflake did try to bring it to trial, they'd likely wind up having pay attorneys fees to the parents of the 'smasher'.

So there's that.

This is why we can't have nice things

Sophomore year of HS, playing softball in gym class. I hit a line drive right off the right knee of the shortstop who was daydreaming and she fell flat on the ground screaming. Half of the class thought I did it on purpose. They called an ambulance since she was pregnant. Amazingly only then did my HS institute a rule about pregnancy and gym class (it was a long time ago).

Anyhow, lawsuits were threatened against the school and against me (my family). Fortunately being destitute has certain advantages.

ManateeGag: CSB: While I was playing volleyball in high school gym, I went up for a spike along side a girl, I ended up accidentally punching the girl in the face. You know what happened? we iced it up, I apologized and we moved on with our lives.

We tried co-ed floor hockey in my high school gym class one year. That lasted about 45 seconds, until one dude pulled some chick's shirt up over her head. We ended up playing dodgeball.

OMG! This kind of Sh*t makes me crazy.

bearcats1983: almost vommed on the field. .

LOLOLOL...for some reason I just love your usage of "vommed"...that's a new one for me. Not sure why it just made me laugh out loud on a slow Monday morning sipping coffee...

Carry on.

gravebayne2: Salt Lick Steady: Sylvia_Bandersnatch: spentmiles: Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care.

Know how I know you DNRTFA?

You need to turn in your humor card and sarcasm badge immediately.

/oh, and spentmiles, favorited

someone just got gobsmacked!

Well I couldn't just wrap him in cotton wool, could I?

Act of God.

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Pockafrusta: spentmiles: Sometimes a lawsuit is the only way to afford medical care. When I was a little kid, I had a friend over playing Frisbee with me in the yard. He threw it up onto the roof of our two story house, so I told him he had to go up and get it. We got the ladder and he climbed up. While up there, he lost his footing and tumbled down the steep angle, over the side and onto the trampoline, which bounced him into the rose bushes where a rabid fox had holed up to die. The fox viciously attacked him, tearing off both his ears and his nose. So on top of the rabies treatment, he needed massive reconstructive surgery, which in addition to his other injuries, would've cost the family a few million dollars in the end. They didn't have health insurance, so suing our homeowner's provider was the only way he'd get the care he needed. He still got screwed though, because the insurance company wrote them a check for $50,000 and said that was the legal maximum they had to pay. I think they ended up just scrapping the kid and starting over.

CSB. It doesn't pertain to this incident though. THIS architect father is just an ahole.

Spentmiles is a troll account, dude.


And? It's got more to offer than you.

TyrantII: Act of God.

Unless you are professing that the little girl is God, I think you meant act of randomness.

Alongside the "smart" and "funny" buttons, we need a "stupid" one.

bearcats1983: Wish I had known about this in high school. I took a rocket shot into my ball bag during a soccer game my senior year. Doubled over in pain, almost vommed on the field. Didn't realize I couldve sued for emotional damage. Of course, that never came to mind because I'm not a massive pu**y and my parents aren't litigious.

Didn't you have to wear jock straps?

Heh, I once knocked someone's tooth out with a kick serve....didn't get sued though, we just had to get him a ride to a dentist...I still had to finish the match against someone else on his team...


/csb

swahnhennessy: Alongside the "smart" and "funny" buttons, we need a "stupid" one.

It's Fark, it's always stupid.

Earpj: Aulus:
OK, I can see filing a liability claim against the school for failure to provide safety equipment, but filing suit against the girl? fark you, Paul Burns. Had I gotten that suit filed against my daughter, I would have been on the phone in a minute, calling him up and asking just when he became such a massive pussy.

Wonder if there's something in the parent handbook about safety equipment? I never read the thing, so I wonder if the idiot Dad in the story did.
Maybe they're supposed to provide their own. Like..I don't know...safety glasses?

Even better, I think the other girl's parents should sue Paul Burns and bring him before the local version of CPS for failing to properly protect his daughter. By failing to wrap her in bubble wrap [along with eye protection of course] before sending her off to the incredibly dangerous sport of Tennis, he's failed his duty as a parent, and obviously failed to protect his precious snowflake.