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Should I ask for compensation for child's injuries?.
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We bought my youngest a bike from JJB for Christmas when he was 6 and I got it out of the car, wheeled it to the neighbour who was hiding it for me and tried to lift it into the house but the handle bars came off in my hand.
I wasn't very impressed but got a spanner and tightened it up myself. I wouldn't have dreamed of just giving it to him without checking it over myself first anyway, is safety is my responsibility not JJB's
A very sensible precaution, one perhaps the OP should have employed. However, it does appear that she was too trusting and believed the word of the expert in the shop.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
The OP seems to think that the bicycle was incorrectly put together and therefore caused these accidents - I think. NOT that the seat height etc. adjustments were incorrect for the child.
He asked if there were any adjustments to be made and they said no. If the bicycle was in a dangerous state due to not being put together properly the child would not have been able to ride the bike properly. If the handlebars were in that state before the 2 falls the child would not have failed to notice. At 11 years old and presumably the owner of bikes before this I would presume that these things would have been obvious.
Did the OP actually ask the child 'what happened?'.0 -
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Can't help noticing that having posted the original question the OP doesn't seem to have been back to respond?I want my sun-drenched, wind-swept Ingrid Bergman kiss, Not in the next life, I want it in this, I want it in this
Use your imagination, or you can borrow mine!0 -
amibovvered wrote: »Can't help noticing that having posted the original question the OP doesn't seem to have been back to respond?
Correct...has anyone else spotted how much flyboy152 has assumed and presumed from the OP. Feel free to answer flyboy152..quoting OP?0 -
A very sensible precaution, one perhaps the OP should have employed. However, it does appear that she was too trusting and believed the word of the expert in the shop.
Are these the same "experts" that when you ask for a size 10, come back and say "no size 10s, but we do have a size 7 and old wellington boot?"(".)0 -
So, apparently there are people in this world who do not own or know how to use a spanner... are these the same people that cannot change a light bulb or a plug?
What on earth is happening to us...0 -
Do you geniunely think that a shop assistant in a sports shop should be classed as an expert on bikes?
If JJB have assembled the bicycle, then yes; it would be expected to assume they project themselves as experts.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
Well going off Flyboy's logic they should be, as well as being experts in toasters, kettles, cameras, phones, furniture........ 
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