Injured in Tesco's

uktim29

Idiophreak wrote: »

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.

Yeah but we all can guess how heavy the vase was. For example it would had been as light a say a paper object. All the things you listed above would not have been a strong enough force to knock a vase over. For an air con unit to do that it would have had to had been like a wind tunnel type of strength which it wouldn't have been.

d.edna

Tozer wrote: »

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.

They make me giggle when my brothers partner was giving birth I actually saw a lawyer chase an ambulance into a+e

They must have scanners or something

marleyboy

Of course in America, you literally gotta watch for those people ready to jump out as you reverse, to make claims against you,....its common over there

Idiophreak

uktim29 wrote: »

Yeah but we all can guess how heavy the vase was. For example it would had been as light a say a paper object. All the things you listed above would not have been a strong enough force to knock a vase over. For an air con unit to do that it would have had to had been like a wind tunnel type of strength which it wouldn't have been.

Not at all...I've had *heavy* things fall off the top of my speakers before...and not even whilst playing pumpin' bass or anything...a little vibration is enough to move anything, little by little.

Imagine the vase was placed on the shelf 50.001%, with 49.999% hanging off - it would stay there, but it would only take a *tiny* amount of force knock it off - probably a gust of wind would do it...

Which is a crucial distinction - you're talking about the force needed to knock a vase over - I'm talking about the force needed to knock the vase *off* - not quite the same thing...

uktim29

Idiophreak wrote: »

Not at all...I've had *heavy* things fall off the top of my speakers before...and not even whilst playing pumpin' bass or anything...a little vibration is enough to move anything, little by little.

Imagine the vase was placed on the shelf 50.001%, with 49.999% hanging off - it would stay there, but it would only take a *tiny* amount of force knock it off - probably a gust of wind would do it...

But thats the thing where then it would be a display issue and loads would fall off. If they slowly edge their way over they'd all be like it, not just one.

It would also take time for this to happen. Most Tesco stores will have stock that shifts quickly (displays are often faced up daily). They'd never stay still (or slowly edging themselves somewhere!) for long enough.

Idiophreak

uktim29 wrote: »

But thats the thing where then it would be a display issue and loads would fall off. If they slowly edge their way over they'd all be like it, not just one.

It would also take time for this to happen. Most Tesco stores will have stock that shifts quickly (displays are often faced up daily). They'd never stay still (or slowly edging themselves somewhere!) for long enough.

If all of the vases were 3" back on the shelf, except one that was half on, half off the shelf - I don't see why they'd all fall off.

Sure, as you say, stuff's faced up quite frequently, but what happens if the girl doing it doesn't notice that while pulling some stuff forward from the back, she's knocked one of the vases with her elbow and it's now teetering on the edge of the shelf. She carries on her merry way. A couple of hours later, the freezer on the other side of the shelf clicks in, or someone drops something on a shelf the other end of the aisle, or one of the new-found "bird sized bumblebees" you see about bumps into the thing..and it falls off.

Given the chance, stuff would fall off shelves a lot in supermarkets - and that's why all the tins etc are put on the shelves in their little cardboard trays - it stops them from falling when they're faced up to the front of the shelf.

All of the meat and fish normally have a transparent "barrier" across the front to stack things against. I used to work in meat and fish in a supermarket, actually...believe me, without that barrier - stuff fell down. Not when anyone was near it, just when it felt like it. (a lot of meat and fish shelves are angled, so the effect's exaggerated, I guess).

I know it may seem like my suggestions might be far fetched, but the way I see it, there are three options: 1) The vase was rather finely balanced one way or another - and was knocked off by a relatively minor incident somewhere. 2) The OP picked the vase off the shelf and threw it at their foot for ****s and giggles. 3) Someone hurled the vase at the OP from somewhere else.

tbh 2 and 3 seem bordering on unlikely to me...

ClareEmily

For goodness sake, it's not like a paper cut, a vase fell and was heavy enough to result in a broken toe, ouch .

What is the vase had fallen on your child's head? Or on a baby in a pram, sure there would be an outcry then.

Yes I hate compensation culture too, but the OP at no fault of her own, on a routine trip to the supermarket:

Experienced a lot of pain
Had to spend her time in A&E
Had to have an xray which could have caused harm to her unborn baby

Gees people have you all lost your sense of empathy?

mishkanorman

i dont know about 'compensation culture' but the 'jump on the bandwagon, make massive assumptions about a person from one post and only join the thread to feel morally superior culture' seems to be rife here !!

good luck OP, I personally feel you shouldnt persue a legal claim but send a strongly worded complaint to head office and ensure you feel properly dealt with

mishka

uktim29

Then it's back to square one, is Tescos fault in option one? I would say the most likely explanation is either the op or another customer didn't put it back properly. It's already mentioned that the definition of "reasonable" isn't Tescos having one member of staff per customer on the shop floor to check their every move isn't going to cause an accident.

I think this is why the op has stuggled so far with pursuing any claim.

uktim29

ClareEmily wrote: »

Gees people have you all lost your sense of empathy?

No, I'm empathizing with Tescos!

ClareEmily wrote: »

Experienced a lot of pain
Had to spend her time in A&E
Had to have an xray which could have caused harm to her unborn baby

Which you can't prove is the fault of Tesco! I struggle to have much empathy for people whos first thought is "I'll have to sue someone".