This just sums up whats wrong with this

[Barry Ashcroft]

Makes my P**s boil !!

      

[slippy]

Classic example of the nanny state gone mad

[CedricTheBrave]

2004!!! I wonder how much that has cost us tax payers

surely at 73 years old he **************

it goes on

[Norman Verona]

Of course it's crazy.

However, do you really think it'll change with the Goverment?

The root cause is highly paid jobs dreaming up and administering this nonsense. Bit like asking Turkeys to vote for Christmas if you think it'll ever stop.

We have the same nonsense in France. Only difference no one takes any notice and common sense rules.

[Boomy]

This sort of thing explains why we had ladder training when I worked at News International on the printing presses.The ladders were only about 2 feet high, more of a step up really, just so you could push a chain which fed paper through the press.Most could do this without a ladder of course, but you were not supposed to stretch *sigh*

I am very suprised to see this 73 year old awarded compensation when he had been trained and told what not to do though.How does that work? What do employers need to do now to stop someone picking up a better retirement package...oops, I mean compensation? They could always employ younger people who are more likely to keep their balance for a start.

[neilb]

So he stands on the top of a stepladder which he has admitted he has been told not not to do and the judge says it the employers fault          

[brianm]

They probably hadn't written STOP on the top rung

[samcooke]

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This just sums up whats wrong with this, f**king country

Indeed it does. People who want something for nothing and refuse to take any responsibility for their actions.

[Martin Keene]

So he hadn't been shown how to use a step ladder by his employer?

Why do I find it *very* hard to believe that he has never used a stepladder before at 73 years of age...

IMO, it is not the Government that is to blame in cases like this, it is the judges. If I was and judge and that case before me it would be so easy.

'So, Mr. I'm On Take Care-Taker, have you ever used a step ladder before in your private life.

'Yes'

'Well, f##k off then you free-loader...'

Cnuts...

:bangeshead:

[pistonbroke]

You have to laugh  

What do you expect , the countries run by academic nitwits who have never lived in the real world.

[Asterix]

agreed, saw that yesterday and thought the same.

[John Loudon - Sponsorship Liaison]

And at 8 years past retirement age he was probably still working to supplement his inadequate pension and thought of a get quiick rich scheme  

[James]

I would love to have a chat with the judge!!!!| bunch of over paid free loading barstards if you ask me, none of them have any common sense what so ever......

And were all suprised that the country's turned to rat s**t?

[Norman Verona]

Of course, we are making the classic mistake of taking a press report as being accurate.

[Asterix]

Of course, we are making the classic mistake of taking a press report as being accurate.

"We" is taking it a bit far m8e.

Personally Norm, I'm taking a press report with the same pinch of salt as I always do, as I'm sure most of the other posters are.

It's not April 1st, there's no current H&S hysteria, no significant reason to disbelieve what is written (other than the normal tendency to expand the truth to it's upper limits).

Unless you *know* different, that is.

This is sadly believable afaict, "P**s" and "boil" as the big man said.