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Woman loses £650,000 injury claim after being seen tossing Christmas tree
(www.theguardian.com)
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I can tell you first hand that disability is not at all like this binary mentality. This was a major injustice to what disability is really like. It reflects how stupid people really are and a judge that should be disbarred. Today is my 10 year anniversary of the day I was disabled by an idiot driver. I could likely toss a tree like this if I tried. It might cost me a few weeks of not sleeping more than 2 hours, but it is my right to take such a risk if I choose. Only stupid people view disability as a binary state. There are levels of misery and limitations you can not fathom. I can't hold posture for long. You can't imagine how miserable that really is. I can't sit up. Laying down most of the time is awful. Simply getting dressed and driving anywhere takes longer than my sustainable limits and pushing past those limits means I will need several days to weeks before I can get back to my standard level of inadequate sleep I have experienced for 10 years now.
Well said. Most disabilities are not obvious if you're just viewing someone for a minute or in this case, even less. Someone could be able to walk 1000 feet but need a wheelchair to travel a mile.
Also Christmas trees are not heavy? My great grandma could probably toss one if she needed to and she's 97 and also couldn't work pretty much any job.
5’ trees can weigh 30kgs, that’s enough for most healthy people to permanently injure themselves. Not a fucking chance your grandma is tossing one dude… total bullshit.
Also, the lady is trying to use a year old collision, where’s the claim information for this injury if it was related to the collision? Why only go see a doctor a few days after a tree tossing.
The tree injured her, not the collision in this situation. No doctor would condone doing this if you had a nagging injury, sorry that just throws anyone’s defense they can use in straight in the garbage. If she had seen a doctor about the collision, she wouldn’t have had permission to do this.
Insurance sucks, but read the damn article lmfao.
A local insurance company tried to deny a claim because the person was "caught" horseback riding. As if sitting on a horse on a flat trail is some kind of extreme physical activity.
Only stupid people would hurt themselves just to have some fun and expect everyone else to pay or make up for it.
The judge made the right decision here, she hurt herself and is blaming someone else instead of taking responsibility for her actions.
Being sick or injured means you cannot do everything a healthy person can, that’s just an unfortunate fact of life. Other people shouldn’t have to suffer and pay just so you can do something dangerous, there is plenty of other options available.
Look at it another way in this particular case, even a healthy person could permanently injure themselves throwing a tree. And she wants to blame something that happened a year before? Get over yourself.
Most people have no issue going out and having fun, but they don’t want to do the physio and recovery, since it’s no fun and also costs money. It’s usually this, they could have fun, but than they need to pay for physio, so they have fun and bitch instead.
She didn't. Read the article. Her car was hit from behind.
Collision 2017, tree tossing 2018. No doctor would have recommended doing a tree toss if she was already dealing with an injury. And if she wasn’t, why would she blame a year old collision instead of what happened a few days before.
Read the article yourself maybe…
I read the article. Judge gives blow job to insurance company. What is confusing?
I don’t know why this should have to be explained. 2018 is after 2017, why is there no evidence of the injury prior to the tree tossing?
Yeah insurance sucks, but let’s stick to the facts here instead of circle jerking fallacies, yeah?
Ah yes, I’m a boot licker because I read the article and can put facts together…. Right…
Can’t people discuss things without this bullshit? Lmfao.
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A realist who read the article instead of a sad little troll who can’t realize they aren’t welcome.
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Who’s we? The only doing anything is you.
Either she collided with herself or you are sensationalizing the facts to support your point that disabled people are second class citizens .
From the article, the collision happened in 2017. Maybe just read the article mate…?
There is no such thing as a traffic “accident” an accident means there is no one to blame by definition. All vehicle incidents should be referred to as collisions.
Are you a large language model?
Awwwhh did someone see a new insult and want to use it first chance even though it doesn’t work?