Private School-girl Suing Over a Sporting Accident... Really???

[Clinky]

As a martial arts teacher, fuck uptight parents.

If you are not capable of handling your kids in an injury then send them to art school, or chess.

I can't say anything for chess but Art School isn't all safe either... X-Acto knives, saws, drills, sanding machines, blow torches, heavy pieces of wood and metal... And that is just the stuff that just causes physical injures. A good variety of paints contain pigments whose effects can include nausea, cancer through long term exposure, and flat out poisoning, then there are flammable solvents, poisonous pastel dust, noxious fumes... You have just as many ways to get hurt or sick creating art as you do sports.

To be honest I agree with Sober Thal to an extent, but no matter what you're going to have incidents like that. Supervision or not younger people are going to goof off and do stuff like that so having a suit over it really comes off as pointless...

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[Kuroneko97]

I guess that girl...

*sunglasses*

...just got served.

http://mirrors.rit.edu/instantCSI/

 

[Lunar Templar]

Private school, nuf said
soooooo damn spoiled.

I'm inclined to say 'this'.

mostly due to my sympathy for stuff like this happening to spoiled brats is pretty much non existent.

come back when she's bleeding, or lost a limb, or something you can't just shrug off and keep going

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Well, allegedly there was two balls on the court at one time, but still, who in their right mind sues their daughters friend over a bit of horseplay during school sports? It's completely insane to sue over an injury that didn't even need a trip to hospital. She got a "bruised eye". That's nothing. I bet she played on afterwards.

Even if there was a bit of horseplay you can't justify suing your daughters school and friend over such a paultry injury.

If they had to spend money because of the injury, the other parents should pay it. That is if they can prove an actual injury and negligence. A phone call between parents should have been the first thing done, if there indeed was any out of pocket expense.

Horseplay can cause injury. Schools are supposed to keep an eye on their students. You have to draw the line somewhere, and the line is out of pocket medical expenses and operating something in a way other than it was designed. (Horseplay)

Would I seek legal action over just a black eye? No. But they should have the right to seek to be reimbursed.[/quote]
But that's the thing, there would be no cost to this. There was no debilitating injury, no medical bills. 5 Minutes of "My eye is kind of sore" and an ice pack, then 2 days of "I got it playing tennis". Where is the cost in that? She wasn't even removed from the site, it wasn't like she had a modelling career that had to be put on hold or anything. It was a black eye, nothing more.
So sure, I would agree with drawing the line at the point at which parents loose money due to medical costs, in which case they have absolutely no case, since this couldn't have cost them anything.

 

[Felipe Nurwandi]

To be honest I agree with Sober Thal to an extent, but no matter what you're going to have incidents like that. Supervision or not younger people are going to goof off and do stuff like that so having a suit over it really comes off as pointless...

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Same thing I wrote to Blahblab

"I mean I understand kids sometimes need to learn things the hard way to be safe. That's fine with me as long as the injury is pretty minor. Nothing like that to build character and stuff. But of course it's my job to enforce mouth guards let's say, because losing teeth is permanent, and it's my responsibility that I acknowledge.

But when parents get mad at me because there's a cut on their kid's arm, like WTF? Or they get mad at me because their kid cries because they got kicked a little too hard. FFS it's Tae Kwon Do, they should understand that accidents are prone to full contact sports. "

 

[mParadox]

Oh this is just way too silly.

I mean really. At this rate you should ban cricket 'cause the ball hit the child's head, or swimming 'cause you got a cramp.

I really do hope that this doesn't happen. >.>

Though I am relatively amused that people recognize the silliness of suing everything living and breathing and/or dead in the USA. =D

 

[Broady Brio]

Another reason I'm adding to why I don't do sports. That and my deformed hip.

 

[daveman247]

Figures it would be a kid in a private school.


I should have you know i have taken many balls to the face in my time, and never complained about it.

Wait...

 

[daveman247]

But when parents get mad at me because there's a cut on their kid's arm, like WTF? Or they get mad at me because their kid cries because they got kicked a little too hard. FFS it's Tae Kwon Do, they should understand that accidents are prone to full contact sports. "

Wow really? Its a martial art/ contact sport. YOU ARE gonna get hurt.


People should know what they are getting into. i usually come back from jitsu with several bruises, maybe a cut or two. And just take it as par for the course. Others always seemed shocked when they get hurt though, weird.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Spoiler: My Reaction

I think that was a sufficient amount of facepalming...

Click spoiler. Expect stupid reaction picture. Get homestuck! WIN! Pleasant surprise.

Yeah this is beyond stupid. Although im not sure what else there is to say in this thread. I doubt they have a leg to stand on llegally.

 

[Kuroneko97]

I should have you know i have taken many balls to the face in my time, and never complained about it.

Wait...

Oh you naughty girl.

 

[Shock and Awe]

This is why we can't have nice things. When people get hurt in fairly safe activities they get pissy and fuck it up for everyone.

 

[Powereaver]

i cant see this case lasting long in court tbh... and yes its just flat out stupidity to even think about starting a legal case over something like this and this is why schools are so scared to do anything lately under fear of litigation.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I facepalmed so much while reading this and now I have headache. Can I sue them?

A tennis ball? Really? Australia what happened to your badass reputation? Though I guess having Australian kids afraid of getting hit by a ball will certainly do England's ashes chances no harm for a good few years

Kids today are pathetic whimps, when I was in nursery (pre-school) I had my head split open by having a wooden block thrown at my head. Parents did not sue, and the nusery did not even remove the wooden blocks. I hope this lawsuit isn't successful otherwise P.E. classes will likely be replaced with skipping through the woods picking tulips.

 

[Aur0ra145]

Lol. I see America headed down that same avenue... it's a shame really.

 

[Lugbzurg]

...and we thought the Link vs. Assassin's Creed lawsuit was stupid and the accuser would get laughed out of court.

Or how the copyright holders of Zorro (still not sure how anyone can own the rights to a character that existed before copyright laws even existed, not to mention, being in a group where none of the members ever even had anything to do with the creation of Zorro, in the fist place) sued Mars for having the red M&M wear a black mask in a Halloween-themed commercial. Nothing else. Just a black mask, like what Robin wears. No even a hat, a sword or a coat. Just a mask and nothing else.

I'm not exactly sure which is more stupid. This, that, what we've got here, or a lawsuit I heard about where a family sued an entire zoo complex (as in "every single person who had anything to do with the entire zoo itself") because some idiot woman got herself drunk and thought it would be a fantastic idea to go swimming with the polar bears... naked.

 

[DarkishFriend]

Wow. This just won my award for 'most stupid law suit' from the woman who sued the family of a dead guy whose body parts hit her after being disassembled by a train.

That one made sense. Her either entire hip or her femur was crushed by the impact. That shit would cost a fortunate.

 

[Bassik]

When a normal human gets injured during a sport, everybody has a good laugh about it.
When a private school girl gets injured, people throw a hissy fit and sue her friend because money.
Maybe we should just put all those private school kids in public school for one year, let them see what us poor sods are up to all day.
It would also be hillarious, I bet. Do I smell a sitcom?