Lawsuits waiting to happen.

[thingy]

I was going across the harbour bridge the othe day in a taxi, and something caught my eye and got me thinking.

Two people in the space of a week have been climbing on the harbour bridge in areas they're not allowed to be. To climb on the bridge, they have big metal gates you have to get around, and surrounding these are large spikes, and circling the spikes is not barbed wire, but razor wire.

Back in the good ol' days this would have been a good deterrent. People would see it and decide it's not worth the risk of injuring themselves. If they do, their bad. These days though, if they were to injure themselves on the razor wire, you'd expect them to sue the council. Isn't all that razor wire just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

The walkways on either side of the bridge have chicken-wire fencing stretching up & over, and on top, barbed wire. Same with that. I'm surprised ANYWHERE is allowed to use barbed wire at all these days due to the potential lawsuits from morons who refuse to use logic, then accept the consequences of their stupidity when they get hurt.

[wOnko]

post-kylie stress disorder

being forced to listen to pop shite on commercial radio - gonna be big is my guess

[Buffy]

I love the security measures they have put in place on the bridge.. I mean sure, druken sods can climb up the top and steal a flag, but there's not way a highly trained group of terrorists could get up there.. those guards sure are swell :D
If you wanna get rid of barbed wire because of potential litigation you gotta look at all publicly accessed areas the same, a person can slip on a sidewalk and break a hip then sue, thats more likely to happen than someone falling on barbed wire :)
hang on... lets get rid of sidewalks, and have moving footways instead.
best. idea. ever. :D

[pleed]

There are potential law suits everywhere, I hate wankers who sue anyone for anyshit that happens.

[kré]

Originally posted by Buffy
hang on... lets get rid of sidewalks, and have moving footways instead.
best. idea. ever. :D

like the travelators at the airport? fucken' a.

[MoleTeaser]

Originally posted by cray
like the travelators at the airport? fucken' a.

I hate to be a dickhole, but George on Seinfeld already had that idea.

Also, regarding lawsuits: I've noticed that judges lately have lost patience with people suing over things that are their own fault and not too many people are winning these kinds of cases.

Off the top of my head, there was that woman who tried to sue a pub for serving her alcohol before she went drink-driving, and that guy who ended up in a wheelchair because he dived into a sandbank. Both lost.

[SmaSheD_CoW]

What MoleTeaser said is very true - more and more of these cases are failing. I think the other problem is that most of the time when these sorts of cases are reported, the media intentionally goes out of its way to make the case seem worse than it actually was.

For example, the media might reveal how a woman who fell over in a store successfully sued the store, and everybody would think the decision was outrageous. In actual fact, the woman's fall may have been caused by a wet floor which management had been aware of but hadn't rectified. Alternatively, there may have been a nail protruding from the wall which she hit on the way down - the management's failure to remove the danger was responsible for her injuries. Extreme examples, but those are the sorts of things which newspapers/TV's always seem to leave out.