OT: Talk about bad luck...

[kronckew]

Now, if'n he'd a had a good khukri...
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's state railway has claimed compensation from a man who caused delays to the service by being run over by a train.

"We are acting in accordance with article 415 of the Civil Code, seeking damages from a person who caused delays in rail traffic -- just like anywhere else in the world," said PKP railway spokesman Krzysztof Lancucki on Monday.

He said 19-year-old Pawel Banaszek, who was paralysed by the accident, caused 2,058 zlotys (320 pounds) worth of losses due to delays in service.

Half the amount was written off and Banaszek is paying the rest in 80-zloty monthly instalments from his 600-zloty disability pension.

Earlier Poland's daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported that Banaszek's house had recently burned down, and Lancucki told Reuters that PKP would most likely write off the remaining amount if Banaszek made a formal request.

Wyborcza said Banaszek, who was lying on the tracks when he was run over, had been beaten up in a fight outside a bar and left for dead on the rails. But a local prosecutor told Reuters there was no conclusive evidence a fight had taken place.

 

[mauirob3]

Reason #101 not to get into barfights---or better yet not to go to bars!

 

[tsf]

or live in Poland. Man , that's cold.

 

[Ben Arown-Awile]

I think it's a good idea. Everyone who causes any type of accident that's their fault should be required to pay the cost for such things as police or fire response etc. Same thing goes for people who get themselves lost while hiking, hunting, or skiing. They should pay for the search and rescue and any other cost to the taxpayers.

If they don't have the money, they can work it off by doing something useful like sweeping the streets, or picking up garbage on the highway.

I'm tired of paying for the mistakes of idiots.

 

[hollowdweller]

An interesting concept Ben, and one that we have been kicking around here.

I work evaluating disability claims for the gov't.

In the last six or eight years we did away with the Obesity and Substance abuse listings. So if Obesity and Substance abuse are a contributing factor to your disability they you get no check.

What is interesting to me is how far will we go on this? I have never allowed a person for COPD(chronic obstructive lung disease) that wasn't a smoker. I look to us to stop allowing people for heart problems and lung disease if they were smokers.

Then of course obesity plays a big part in a lot of other illnesses. Should we deny benefits to people over a certain BMI (body mass index?)

It's an interesting concept because we all are imperfect and have our weaknesses.

 

[munk]

I'm afraid we idiots will make the taxpayer fork over far faster than a lawyer could write codes to the contrary.

I appreciate the Australian Government passing a law banning standing on dead whale carcasses while sharks feed; they compained bitterly they shouldn't have to pass such a law-

I'll always remember with joy the photo of the tourist patting a shark affectionately on the snout from the dead whale.

And who can forget the woman dragged under the water many dozens of feet by a whale she was 'communing' with.... She almost drowned. Perhaps whales aren't very smart after all; another 40 yards might have done it.



munk

 

[hollowdweller]

And who can forget the woman dragged under the water many dozens of feet by a whale she was 'communing' with.... She almost drowned. Perhaps whales aren't very smart after all; another 40 yards might have done it.
munk

Some people obviously have had no experience with wild animals other than seeing them on TV.

 

[Ben Arown-Awile]

...It's an interesting concept because we all are imperfect and have our weaknesses...

That's true. We all are imperfect and have our weaknesses, and we have the right to be as imperfect and weak as our character allows, but we do not have the right to impose the consequence of that on others.

 

[Kismet]

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.