For once, the law is not an ass - pog

On the road to Marrakech
Reality bites
poggy style (pace downtown)

For once, the law is not an ass

Was anyone else more than a bit aghast at the news story of the dozy mare who was suing her landlords because she fell through a skylight on a garage roof she was dancing on, which was adjacent to the flat she was renting. She was suing them for failing to warn her not to dance on the roof while thoroughly mullahed at her own birthday party.
The salient points were:
1. She was pissed (see above).
2. The garage roof she was dancing on was not part of the property she was renting.
3. In order to get to said garage roof to dance/fall through skylight, she had to climb out of a window.
4. Onto someone else's garage.
5. She was pissed.
In fit of blinding common sense, Judge Sir John Blofeld (at the High Court, no less), said that the dozy cow had no authority to go on the roof and therefore the landlords were not responsible for her 'thoroughly unpleasant injuries'.
No shit Sherlock.

29.3.07 14:04

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Daxy / Website (29.3.07 16:05)
The problem is that such is the state of our law that the stupid cow thought she had a genuine grievance under law, and presumably she had some low-life lawyer to act for her....
I fear that there are so many laws nowadays that we can't distinguish between justice and law any more...
*nods sagely and bites deep into a Hobpog*

pog (29.3.07 16:16)
Either that or her head injuries managed to remove any semblance of common sense from her ditzy brain ...
*ouch*

BroLo / Website (31.3.07 07:45)
In the good ol' US of A, she would have won the case.

Barnaby Chadwick / Website (1.4.07 15:02)
Contributory negligence! I have been trying to think of the phrase for days. Contributory negligence. Only, in this, yer plaintiff has contributed 100% of the negligence.