Figures.
You just can’t find dedication like that.
Lots of locals rolling in the gutter drunk though.
What a weird turn in a story that simply involved a “phoney phone call.” This was something that in my childhood years Steve Allen did on a regular basis on his tv show. Prince Charles had even made several jokes about it.
Was this girl hassled too much after the joke? Did her family not protect her? Lots of questions here and I refuse to blame two disc jockeys in Australia.
Little Tommy Lantosssssss (RAT-CA) would be so proud of this nurse if he hadn’t already assumed room temperature.
YES the DJ’s have criminal and civil exposure.
While some here have the skill of walking on water, the actual law confirms the liability.
^ 708 F.2d 1217, citing Prosser, Handbook of the Law of Torts 261 (4th ed. 1971)
from canada too:
http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/1996/1996canlii183/1996canlii183.html
This appeal involved a straightforward application of the thin skull rule. The pre-existing disposition may have aggravated the injuries, but the defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him. If the defendant’s negligence exacerbated the existing condition and caused it to manifest in a disc herniation, then the defendant is a cause of the disc herniation and is fully liable.
Schmude v. Tricam Indus., 556 F.3d 624, 628 (7th Cir. Wis. 2009)If a tortfeasor inflicts a graver loss on his victim than one would have expected because the victim had some pre-existing vulnerability, that is the tortfeasor’s bad luck; you take your victim as you find him.