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    Should I sue Reading? A moral dilema...

    I received an interesting letter yesterday, from Marcus Herbet at Environmental Health, Reading Borough Council, concerning 'Reporting of Injuries, Diseases abd Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1996'. When I was at Reading Festival this summer, some w***** landed on my head in the mosh pit and crushed me. Spent night in agony in casualty having x-rays cos they were worried about my back; nothing was broken, and I was discharged in the morning with plentiful supply of pain killers and muscle relaxants. Hurt for about 2-3 weeks afterwards, but now i just get occasional twinges.

    I had more or less forgotten about it all, so the letter came as a bit of a surprise. They want me to fill out a form to confirm what happened etc...and its got me thinking. I know that if there are too many injuries then it will call into question how safe the whole thing is and whether regulations need to be tightened etc, which i dont want to happen cos it was a great weekend, and i dont blame my accident on the organisers!

    However, having to fill in this paperwork has called the attention of the financially dependant little capitalist in me, and i'm thinking - could i make some kind of claim? I mean, there wasnt any long term loss of earnings or anything...but there was a fair amount of emotional 'trauma', as they say, which should be worth something.

    So....what do you all reckon? Is it worth feeling guilty if i get them to give me some money??
    Last edited by Verres; September 21, 2003, 14:38.
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    DL DANCE



    Actually, this may not be a DL... the post is well thought-out, and of a medium length.

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    • #3
      If you think you can live with being the person who caused Reading Festival to lose it's licence, go for it.

      After all, who could possibly have predicted that in a moshpit you might get hurt?
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      • #4
        Sue em for all they're worth!

        And sky, he has 86 other posts.

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        • #5
          oh, i am so glad i have your approval Can anyone actually give me some advice rather than condescending comments???????
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          • #6
            And sky, he has 86 other posts.


            Sorry, I just looked at the "settler" and made the usual assumption

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            • #7
              btw, he is a she (if that makes any sense whatsoever!)
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              • #8
                EDIT: n/m

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                • #9
                  Point taken, Lazarus. This is why i mentioned it being a moral dilema...like i said, i wasnt that bothered and had forgotten all about it until they brought it up - so its not like i'm being indignant or anything. I just need money and this seems like too good an opportunity to miss.
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                  • #10
                    Well there you go. Any money you get will just come out of the pockets of joe public in the end.
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                    • #11
                      But i am Joe public! (or Josephine, anyway) I promise to pay it back when i'm rich and famous! (Famous for wrecking Reading festival and being killed by a load of die-hard music fans)
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                      • #12
                        So this was a community festival type of event? Let's say you do sue, you get an award, the event's insurer pays out. You're all happy, you just cashed in, good for you. Now a precedent's been set, now somebody else who might've gotten hurt comes forward. Same as you, s/he wasn't permanently hurt, just a few days' pain. Another award. So on and so forth. The insurance company sees what's happening and realizes they'll have to cover themselves next time.

                        Fast-forward a year. Community wants to put on the festival again. They get their quote from the insurer for the liability insurance, and the premium's skyrocketed! Now the community can't afford to put on the event. The event's cancelled. Everyone's bummed. But, hey, you cashed in!

                        It'd be one thing if you'd been permanently injured or suffered some financial hardship, as you could build a solid economic claim out of either of those circumstances. But it sounds like neither is the case. Take some responsibility for your own life and don't ask the rest of society to pay you to make you feel better.
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                        • #13
                          Okay, you're right. Sorry for wasting people's time. I'm on my way out to actually earn some money instead of scabbing off the rest of the world anyway.
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                          • #14
                            You were at Reading Festival? So was I! Wow! Now only 15,999 other people to find.

                            Which mosh pit where you in? If it was Good Charlotte, you're a weak girly man. If it was some of the tougher bands, you're lucky to get out alive.

                            If it was the Smirnoff Dance tent, I exile you to the coldest reaches of the arctic north.
                            Exult in your existence, because that very process has blundered unwittingly on its own negation. Only a small, local negation, to be sure: only one species, and only a minority of that species; but there lies hope. [...] Stand tall, Bipedal Ape. The shark may outswim you, the cheetah outrun you, the swift outfly you, the capuchin outclimb you, the elephant outpower you, the redwood outlast you. But you have the biggest gifts of all: the gift of understanding the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence [and the] gift of revulsion against its implications.
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                            • #15
                              Sue my council! No you bastard, that's my frikkin council tax.

                              Starchild, it's more like 60,000 at Reading not 16.
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