I thought stupid **** like that only happened here. The crim, his lawyer,
and the judge should all be shot. good riddance, I say. Time to clean up
this world!


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Scott Vernon
Plowville PA __/)__/)__

OzOne wrote in message ...
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:32:43 +0930, Flying Tadpole
scribbled thusly:

That too. Public liability insurance payouts have been so huge
that insurance is impossible to get now for a whole lot of
things, and if i dug a bit, I'm sure I could find you cases where
someone (probably a burglar attempting a break and enter) was
awarded hundreds of thousands of doallrs because they slipped and
strained their ankle on an apple core from a fruit tree in a
backyard somewhere. This sort of litigation we picked up from
the world's best teachers.

I'll give you one example.
A burglar was trying to break into a friends home.
Climbed a pipe andopened the 1st floor bathroom window.
Stuck his arm through and it was immediately latched onto by the
resident Doberman.
Burglar threw his other arm up and smashed thru the glass severely
cutting his wrist and arm.
He let go and fell to the ground, tearing his hand from the clenched
jaws of the dog and losing IIRC two fingers in the process.
The fall broke numerous bones and did other damage.

My friend was sued by the crim for having a dangerous dog, won the
case and was granted substantial compensation.

One can only hope that he stuck it all into his arm and justice was
done!

The dogs life was saved on appeal.


Oz1...of the 3 twins.

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