Viking Warrior Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 I see PC jones aka sick note . She's the one suing the garage owner when she fell over whilst investigating a break in at the garage . Well last year she sued the police force for hurting her knee in a car crash and won compensation from them . Sorry I don't find her being unlucky just a money grabber and its people like her that give the police a bad name . I would imagine she's made other claims for what ever reason . Watch out for a sex discrimination claim . I wonder what her colleagues think of her ? So back to the title do you think she has been unlucky ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 I see PC jones aka sick note . She's the one suing the garage owner when she fell over whilst investigating a break in at the garage . Well last year she sued the police force for hurting her knee in a car crash and won compensation from them . Sorry I don't find her being unlucky just a money grabber and its people like her that give the police a bad name . I would imagine she's made other claims for what ever reason . Watch out for a sex discrimination claim . I wonder what her colleagues think of her ? So back to the title do you think she has been unlucky ? Quite frankly she's flushed her career down the toilet. If you trip over a curb in the dead of night investigating a break-in you pick yourself up, laugh about it and get on with the job. There's nothing 'unlucky' about suing a garage owner after making an arse of yourself, especially when you don't have the intelligence to use a torch/flashlight properly, if at all. The junior officers will take the **** and the senior officers will consider her a liability. With this incident making national headlines and having MPs making public comments she'll be hounded out the force eventually, either officially or unofficially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 Quite frankly she's flushed her career down the toilet. .....The junior officers will take the **** and the senior officers will consider her a liability. With this incident making national headlines and having MPs making public comments she'll be hounded out the force eventually, either officially or unofficially. The trouble is that this is more than likely what see wants. Instead of resigning from a job you dont want to do anymore its becoming more and more common to position yourself so you are given a very nice compromise agreement to go away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 Absolute scum. It isn't just confined to people in the police though, anyone whose first thought in that sort of situation is to sue are cretins. I have personal experience of these lowlifes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Site Agent Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 Personally I think she sees these as opportunities to make some cash. The reason that she's waited 7 months is probably because she tried to sue the police first and either failed or her ambulance chasing lawler couldn't find a way to make them culpable. Personally I hope she loses, or is removed from the front line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringwood Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 She will get promoted to an office role, probably in Risk Assessment! FFS She was out on an emergency call at night with no torch and the kerb she tripped over wasn't even a walkway she was headed for a gap in a fence, guess if we need to call the 999 service best put a call into the council first to turn the streetlamps back on first or do just ask for a response in daylight hours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 I truely truely hope that the garage owner or insurance company fight this, and when they win, a huge award of costs is given against her. It is utterly repugnant that Our society allows a policeman responding to your own call of distress to subsequently sue you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 The police force were the negligent ones. Somebody should have told her that the 9 inch battery-driven thing they gave her is actually a torch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 If she can't avoid tripping over a kerb then what the hell is she doing in the police? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 I think the garage owner should sue her mother for bring a dumb fück into the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 (edited) This is really quite a sad case - is this where we are in society today? I know for a fact (and I daresay that Viking Warrior also knows) that had I tried this 'scam' (and it is just that) at my place of work then one of my 'superiors' would have invited me for an interview without coffee, probably checked my rib cage a couple of times and told me to stop being such a pleb and get back to work. And I would have deserved it. Why in the world can this stupid, stupid woman not be told some home truths. What authority does the police commissioner have over his employees. What the f uck is going on? Common sense needs to prevail. Common fuc king sense. Edited 7 April, 2013 by Micky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 7 April, 2013 Author Share Posted 7 April, 2013 She has already got compensation from the police for hurting her knee in a police car shunt . Now this . She is in a job that has risks attached . Did she not realise that when she joined up . It's about time people like her grew a bloody spine and got on with the job . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 7 April, 2013 Share Posted 7 April, 2013 She has already got compensation from the police for hurting her knee in a police car shunt . Now this . She is in a job that has risks attached . Did she not realise that when she joined up . It's about time people like her grew a bloody spine and got on with the job . Yes there are very many risks attached to her job - but negotiating a bloody kerbstone is not one of them - it's what millions of people do every bloody day. Why one of her boss's can't just call her in and give her a good slapping and then send her back out on the beat is beyond me. When the **** is common ****ing sense ever going to prevail in this ****in nanny state of a country. When? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceandfriendly Posted 8 April, 2013 Share Posted 8 April, 2013 It's stories like this that really make me miss the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gingeletiss Posted 8 April, 2013 Share Posted 8 April, 2013 Not related, but about a lawsuit...... BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND PROBABLY THE CENTURY!! Charlotte, North Carolina. USA . A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The lawyer sued.. and WON! (Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated, nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable "fire", and was obligated to pay the claim! Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars lost in the "fires". NOW, FOR THE BEST PART.. After the lawyer cashed the cheque, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine. This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest! ONLY IN AMERICA ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu0x Posted 8 April, 2013 Share Posted 8 April, 2013 Not related, but about a lawsuit...... one of the oldest Internet urban myths around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 8 April, 2013 Author Share Posted 8 April, 2013 Mickey . Your dead right . I'm aware of some claims made by employees where I work . Some are ridiculous but it's easier for the organisation and insurers and the tax payers to pay up to avoid costly litigation . They should have the balls to challenge some if the cases . One day I might spill the beans on some of the frivolous cases I'm aware off . The public sector is any easy one to target Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 8 April, 2013 Share Posted 8 April, 2013 Mickey . Your dead right . I'm aware of some claims made by employees where I work . Some are ridiculous but it's easier for the organisation and insurers and the tax payers to pay up to avoid costly litigation . They should have the balls to challenge some if the cases . One day I might spill the beans on some of the frivolous cases I'm aware off . The public sector is any easy one to target Small businesses are also targets and in the eyes of the law the ones bringing the cases are always the victims. Many chose to pay up before dragging themselves through the courts as it is a stressful and often fruitless exercise. Employees know this and as such are more likely to do it in the future. It's disgusting and something needs to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 8 April, 2013 Author Share Posted 8 April, 2013 (edited) Seems pc jones is not the only one at it . and no this is not from the daily mail . this is from the lebanon times in Beruit . a Policeman launches legal action against a shop owner after 'falling in a drain during burglary call-out' just days after a policewoman sues for tripping over a kerb PC claims he tore Achilles tendon in fall at Maidenhead Aquatics in SurreyHe wants compensation for six months' worth of lost overtime earningsClaim emerges days after WPC sued petrol station for tripping over a kerb. How then hell can you claim overtime when your off sick on full pay your either fit or your not Edited 8 April, 2013 by Viking Warrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 8 April, 2013 Author Share Posted 8 April, 2013 (edited) No wonder we dont see many police on the ground there to scared to go out these days heres another one who tried suing the tax oayer Police officer Tracey Ormsby tried to claim £1.5million damages after being hit by a pineapple during a protest at the closure of a council swimming pool in 2001. The Glasgow WPC was slightly hurt by the fruit yet claimed more than three years later her injury had left her a mentally scarred recluse, forced to quit her job. But a court heard how Tracey, 37, had enjoyed holidays in Australia, France, Crete, Spain and Gran Canaria, and that she had yelled “ker-ching, I’m in the money!” when a doctor diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder. A judge awarded her just £3,000 for the minor chest injury caused by the pineapple. Edited 8 April, 2013 by Viking Warrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 8 April, 2013 Share Posted 8 April, 2013 Shes a fat cow, whatever you think of her compensayshun mentality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWillie Posted 8 April, 2013 Share Posted 8 April, 2013 She is a disgrace. 99.9% of us would just laugh about it. That's why our insurance premiums go up because of leeches like her and her lawyers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 29 April, 2013 Author Share Posted 29 April, 2013 I realise now why the police are bogged down in paper work. its not filling in crime sheets but filling out insurance claims A copper gets compensation of £8k for being bitten by fleas while at work. The extraordinary injury claim was made after colleagues complained that their police station in Birmingham had become infested with the insects. The policeman who lodged the flea bites claim follows a £1,000 payout by the same force in 2011 over ‘insect bites’. In other claims, a worker received £14,000 after falling from a pushbike. Another claimed £600 after being exposed to a loud noise. It was one of a number of workplace injury claims paid by West Midlands Police which, over the past three years, has spent £900,000 settling cases made by more than 50 policemen. In total, just under 2,000 officers received payouts worth £19.8million last year and 6,600 officers shared £47.3million in the previous three years, Police Federation figures show. A freedom of information request revealed West Midlands Police has been sued by 51 serving officers and 16 civilian staff in the past three years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 29 April, 2013 Share Posted 29 April, 2013 And while the police are claiming £50m over three years... ...blind people are having their disability benefits cut/removed, are being told they are fit for work, and being moved out of disability-modified 2 bed flats into crappy 1 bed flats. All in order to try to save a similar amount but will probably end up costing more. Nice one George! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 29 April, 2013 Author Share Posted 29 April, 2013 You cannot blame George but I see your point . But these greedy coppers need to realise why they join the police force . It's not to sue te police force because they have been bitten by a flea . Maybe he got it from a cat . What a ****** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 30 April, 2013 Share Posted 30 April, 2013 You cannot blame George but I see your point . But these greedy coppers need to realise why they join the police force . It's not to sue te police force because they have been bitten by a flea . Maybe he got it from a cat . What a ****** He might have brought it in himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 30 April, 2013 Author Share Posted 30 April, 2013 Exactly whitey . Some police have no dedication to duty . Only in it for what they can get . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 10 May, 2013 Author Share Posted 10 May, 2013 And yet another £5k of taxpayers money wasted A police officer who cut her thumb while dismantling a cannabis factory is to keep almost £5,000 in damages, following a Court of Appeal ruling. Kerry Ann Taylor was hurt when she put her hand through a window at a house in Southsea while disposing of class B cannabis plants and equipment, in 2008. The officer sued Hampshire Constabulary and was awarded the damages by a judge at Winchester County Court. Now an appeal by the force has been dismissed at the Court of Appeal. PC Taylor was injured when she tried to open the window after feeling nauseous while clearing the property, not noticing it had been sealed. The officer, who was wearing latex gloves to protect against skin irritation, pushed at the glass, which broke, and her right hand went through it. Hampshire police had appealed against the previous finding that the force breached its duty under the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 in failing to provide PC Taylor with thick gloves. But two judges dismissed the appeal against the finding on liability. Lord Justice Elias said there was an obligation to provide thick gloves at the time to protect against the risk of injury as the operation could involve her carrying out a whole range of tasks, not just removing the plants. W are employing far to mamby pamby coppers, What about their responsibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 10 May, 2013 Share Posted 10 May, 2013 And yet another £5k of taxpayers money wasted A police officer who cut her thumb while dismantling a cannabis factory is to keep almost £5,000 in damages, following a Court of Appeal ruling. Kerry Ann Taylor was hurt when she put her hand through a window at a house in Southsea while disposing of class B cannabis plants and equipment, in 2008. The officer sued Hampshire Constabulary and was awarded the damages by a judge at Winchester County Court. Now an appeal by the force has been dismissed at the Court of Appeal. PC Taylor was injured when she tried to open the window after feeling nauseous while clearing the property, not noticing it had been sealed. The officer, who was wearing latex gloves to protect against skin irritation, pushed at the glass, which broke, and her right hand went through it. Hampshire police had appealed against the previous finding that the force breached its duty under the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 in failing to provide PC Taylor with thick gloves. But two judges dismissed the appeal against the finding on liability. Lord Justice Elias said there was an obligation to provide thick gloves at the time to protect against the risk of injury as the operation could involve her carrying out a whole range of tasks, not just removing the plants. W are employing far to mamby pamby coppers, What about their responsibility She said it was a matter of principle and gave the award to a Kenyan Childrens Charity that she regularly visits to do voluntary work. The PF were advised that they had a cast iron case but the forces lawyer took a punt on the appeal £50K insured but Hants Police have to pay £100k. Pretty dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Warrior Posted 10 May, 2013 Author Share Posted 10 May, 2013 I had not seen that Derry, Just goes to show how much tax payers money is wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFrost Posted 12 September, 2013 Share Posted 12 September, 2013 She's dropped the claim http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-24066843 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano6 Posted 12 September, 2013 Share Posted 12 September, 2013 Not related, but about a lawsuit...... BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND PROBABLY THE CENTURY!! Charlotte, North Carolina. USA . A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The lawyer sued.. and WON! (Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated, nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable "fire", and was obligated to pay the claim! Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars lost in the "fires". NOW, FOR THE BEST PART.. After the lawyer cashed the cheque, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine. This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest! ONLY IN AMERICA ! http://www.snopes.com/crime/clever/cigarson.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 12 September, 2013 Share Posted 12 September, 2013 Not related, but about a lawsuit...... BEST LAWYER STORY OF THE YEAR, DECADE AND PROBABLY THE CENTURY!! Charlotte, North Carolina. USA . A lawyer purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars and without yet having made even his first premium payment on the policy the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The lawyer sued.. and WON! (Stay with me.) Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated, nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable "fire", and was obligated to pay the claim! Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars lost in the "fires". NOW, FOR THE BEST PART.. After the lawyer cashed the cheque, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!! With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and a $24,000 fine. This is a true story and was the First Place winner in the recent Criminal Lawyers Award Contest! ONLY IN AMERICA ! Meanwhile down in deepest Wiltshere we have a man who has been given a 6 month sentece for sh@gging a goat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 12 September, 2013 Share Posted 12 September, 2013 Meanwhile down in deepest Wiltshere we have a man who has been given a 6 month sentece for sh@gging a goat. I hope the goat warned him about any hazards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 12 September, 2013 Share Posted 12 September, 2013 I hope the goat warned him about any hazards. poor thing was quite poorly apparently, needed vet care and antibiotics. Owners have now had to install security cameras, or so they say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 12 September, 2013 Share Posted 12 September, 2013 poor thing was quite poorly apparently, needed vet care and antibiotics. Owners have now had to install security cameras, or so they say. The goat was very distressed. Even after three weeks he hadn't phoned, hadn't written, hadn't sent flowers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 12 September, 2013 Share Posted 12 September, 2013 A company I know use to sell one of those funny shower head attachments your Granny always had that just pushed onto the taps then you turned on the hot and cold tap to get the right temperature mix and away you went, traditionally washing your hair over the sink. They had a claim made against them by a bloke who had attached this shower unit to the taps on his bath he then turned on the tap whilst pointing the shower head at his dangly bits and "scalded" them. He then made a claim against the company that it wasn't pointed out on the packaging that he had to mix hot and cold together, and the insurance company coughed up €40k without a fight. You would hope that in the process of being scalded through his own stupidity he would killed off the sperm producing properties of his 2 veg and thus been in the running for a Darwin Award. The insurance company probably weighed up how much it would cost to fight this case and prove this chaps stupidity, then how much to fight the appeal and just made him an offer less than that to go away, just shows how easy it is if you can be bothered............... Then you can imagine the first bloke moaning down the pub that his insurance premium had gone up would be the one with the crispy sausage and singed sprouts lurking in his Calvins. Just on this "Where there's blame, there's a claim" have those slightly older readers noticed how thick the Handbook for your car has become and then actually looked through it for information about something that you can still do yourself on a modern car? The first 200 pages are full of, for want of a better term, ar$e armour against litigation, gems like "don't attempt to exit the car before it has come to a complete halt" are more than likely lurking within those very pages!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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