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To wondre WHY we live in a world where it everyone else's fault?

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Kimi · 22/02/2008 21:18

Yesterday in the paper there was a bloke (compulsive gambler) suing a bookmaker for taking his bets and him going bankrupt,
Today there is a woman trying to sue a chap because she was sticking junk mail through his door and cut her hand on the letter box, the other week it was some very obese American trying to sue McDonalds for making him fat , and smokers and drinkers have been known to sue tobacco and alcohol company's.

It always seems to be someone else's fault, no one wants to accept responsibility for them self nowdays, or else see a way to make a quick buck.

Then their is the poor bloke who is looking at a murder charge because he struggled with a knife wielding career criminal who was trying to rob him and her bloke ended up stabbed with his own knife, the world has gone mad.

If I put my life savings on a horse and it lost that is MY fault for being stupid, not the bookies for taking the bet.

If I went shoving unsolicited crap through peoples door and cut myself doing so, that is an accident

If I spent my life shoveling big macs down for every meal I would expect to get fat

If I spent all day smokng then got lung cancer again all my own doing

If I spent all day knocking back alcohol and died as a result, (as my father did) all my own fault

And hell yes I would not care if I killed someone who was attacking me with a fecking knife, they should not have been trying to rob/kill me.

It is a sad world we are living in, and the worst part of it is it is becoming all too normal to blame every one else for our own short comings

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AbbeyA · 23/02/2008 20:37

Accidents happen-often it is no ones fault! I have every admiration for the Scout Association. My DS has been on 2 camps where he had to be taken to the A&E and they were quite happy to take him on a third camp-for which I am very grateful.

ratbunny · 23/02/2008 20:48

it would be interesting to know just how many of these claims actually win. it is 1 thing to sue the council, and quite another to win it.

ratbunny · 23/02/2008 20:48

it would be interesting to know just how many of these claims actually win. it is 1 thing to sue the council, and quite another to win it.

ratbunny · 23/02/2008 20:49

sorry, crappy laptop

cory · 23/02/2008 23:40

I don't think many people sue these days because they got lung cancer from smoking- but I do believe one important reason everybody knows smoking is dangerous is because of the publicity it got through some highly publicised court cases. If you want to stop something, to draw attention to something bad, a court case is one of the most effective ways of doing it. The people who sued McDonald's weren't after some personal compensation; they wanted to make a point.

As Ratbunny pointed out, for all these bonkers court cases- the man whose lung cancer was cured, the little boy who was frightened when taken to see Peter Pan etc etc- do we know how many actually got compensation? I am fairly sure Peter Pan was thrown out of court, and so was the one who sued for broken rib after he'd been resuscitated after a heart attack (apparently the judge was very cutting in his comments on that).

LittleBella · 24/02/2008 00:06

Very good point Cory - I don't think there has been one truly bonkers case that has been tried under English law and succeeded.

They always get thrown out of court, but the newspapers don't report that in big letters on the front page. Or they get settled out of court because insurance companies insist on it, not a judge.

duchesse · 24/02/2008 13:24

LittleBella- WTF should it be the licensees' responsibility to make sure that grown people do not drink so much they don't know what they're doing? If people don't have the self-control to stop before they're incapable, they deserve everything that happens to them (injuries, falls, arrests, even fights). Making the licensees responsible for that deresponsibilises the individual which I personally find abhorrent. That's part of what's wrong with this country- people EXPECT it all to be like a soft play area. Nuts...

< walks off shaking head in disbelief >

Why don't people just LOOK where they're going???

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