Injured in Tesco's

blue_monkey_2

mrcow wrote: »

I wouldn't personally sue for money....I'd just make sure that I get enough babysitting favours to compensate.

Ha. That would be something. No, no-one will look after my son as he is ASD. I think he scares people to be honest but someone did offer yesterday. People only ever do it the once.....

Tozer

blue_monkey wrote: »

Right, work to do else my kids will not be able to go out after school tonight and then I'll have to sue you all for distracting me!!

I started being cross but it has turned out to be quite a laugh by all accounts.

I have now started questioning whether I can sue using my own household insurance. On Monday I stood on a piece of paper that was left on the floor but under the paperwork there were some plastic wallets that I had not seen and I slipped and smashed my leg on a ducuments folder that my employer had left there. I now have a huge and nasty bruise and was left in some considerable discomfort as well as embarrassment when the kids laugh at me for being a clumsy a!se!!

My employer is.... oh yes, it's me.

So I could use my household policy to sue my employer (me) and my other insurance poilicy would fight my household insurers (mine)..... do you think it would work??

Good try! Sadly the claimant and defendant would be the same so it won't work.

But if I slipped in your house.....

Debras_Angel

marleyboy wrote: »

Im sure you camn sue the bullies But as you went outside "knowigly" ginger, you took the risk of exposure, Remember how the Elephany dealed with liabiliy, he wore a paper bag.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Good one!

blue_monkey_2

marleyboy wrote: »

Im sure you can sue the bullies But as you went outside "knowingly" ginger, you took the risk of exposure, Remember how the Elephant man dealt with his liability, he wore a paper bag.

Oh damn. That is true. Got to think of something else now them. Maybe it could be because I was under the age of liability and I could sue my parents for not protecting me and for not dying my hair to protect me from the taunting?

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Debras_Angel

My final thought on this is that I hope I never need to make a claim due to a serious accident!

As i'm sure it's not an easy process.

Enjoy the rest of your day peeps;)

blue_monkey_2

Tozer wrote: »

Good try! Sadly the claimant and defendant would be the same so it won't work.

But if I slipped in your house.....

Right, well you are not coming round for tea now.

Do you get invited to peoples houses often??

:rotfl: :rotfl:

PS. Still not getting any work done!!

Idiophreak

Just scanned this thread now and a couple of things bugged me about it on the first page:

uktim29 wrote: »

Right lets get this right.

Lot of things fall if stacked incorrectly, not just a single vase. Things do not fall just because they are at a certain height, gravity has no force horizontally! Someone/thing would have to apply that force.

Things, put up higher, do have more potential energy...All objects, eventually, one way or another, like to return to their lowest state of energy - hence why castles fall down, why church windows are thicker at the bottom than the top and why pictures do, sometimes, just fall off the wall in the middle of the night.

It's entirely possible that the vase may just have fallen...certainly due to vibration of passing lorries, air con units, a butterfly flapping its wings...and so on. None of which would be the OPs fault - all of which should be guarded against when stacking stuff.

The main point of the vase being up high, however, is that it could very well have landed on someone's head, rather than their foot, so extra care should be taken if anything.

aimharl wrote: »

As stated literally came from nowhere.

Could be "literally appeared to have come from nowhere" or "figuratively came from nowhere", the vase *didn't* literally come from nowhere

Generally, I'm no fan of compensation culture - but I do agree the only way to make these people sit up and take notice is to hit them in their pocket. If (and this is a big if, given the lack of clarity), the stuff was stacked unsafely - next time it happens, it could very well hit someone on the head - falling to child's height, this could be quite a big deal...The point I'm making is that just because someone wants to take action against another party doesn't automatically make them an ambulance chaser. There's a difference between an "accident" and "neglect" and so on. An accident is where nobody's to blame...if the OP feels that Tesco were to blame, I can see why she's struggling to think of it that way...(although, that said, OP doesn't seem to *know* where the vase fell from, or, indeed, what caused it to fall, so I don't really see why they'd be convinced Tesco is to blame..)

d.edna

Tozer wrote: »

And how would that attract liability????

Many ways we can't say on a family forum, just imagine just imagine!

How are tesco liable for what I am assuming she put back on the shelf

Tozer are you an ambulance chaser by trade?

JimmyTheWig

aimharl wrote: »

one minute I was speaking to my husband the next I was in agony and a vase was smashing into pieces. the only ones of this style we could see were on the very top shelf.

Did tesco charge you for the item?

Tozer

d.edna wrote: »

Many ways we can't say on a family forum, just imagine just imagine!

How are tesco liable for what I am assuming she put back on the shelf

Tozer are you an ambulance chaser by trade?

Why do you assume that?

Nope, I'm a corporate lawyer.

As I have said, I hate the ambulance chasing firms with a vengeance - particularly because they give our civil law procedures a very bad name.