...imitates Viz:
Posted on 07/30/2009 11:02:44 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A woman who tripped and broke her leg in a pub has been awarded £18,000 in compensation.
Selena Gilder was smoking a cigarette outside when the three-inch heel of her stiletto shoes became caught in a crack in the concrete.
The 40-year-old, who had drunk two Bacardi and Cokes, lost her balance and tumbled backwards, but her trapped foot caused her to snap the tibia and fibula of her right leg.
The hospital cleaner insists she was not drunk and blamed the fall on 'very poor' lighting in the smoking area.
Ms Gilder had three operations and six months off work following the incident, which occurred at 11.30pm on October 26, 2007.
She took legal action against insurers of The Albion pub in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, who have now settled out of court for £18,000.
Ms Gilder, who now works in a garage, is only just beginning to walk properly after her most recent operation nine weeks ago.
She said: 'I'm happy about the money, because what happened to me at that place was horrific.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’ll bet she never wears those silly (uncomfortable) shoes again.
She should sue her parents for giving birth to a bonehead./s
She looks rather hefty to be wearing stiletto heels and when you add falling down drunk, it’s hard to see how it’s the pub’s fault...
another medical statistic caused by smoking...
I’m surprised she didn’t sue the shoe designer or manufacturer.
That’s usually just called a ‘rum and Coke’.
Maybe when the Muslims take over they will install Sharia law...it makes more sense than what they have.
She’s guilty! Off with her head!
So in Britain, hospital ‘cleaners’ are expert accident reconstruction experts? And WTH is a cleaner?
I bet you are wrong. I never understand why women wear shoes that are clearly painful and hard to wear, but they still do. If she is 40 and going to the pub for drinks, my bet is she is single and will continue going to the pub in stilettos until she lands somebody — for a night or forever. Unfortunately I doubt she is smart enough to avoid doing it to herself again.
And why is that in England it takes 3 operations and 2 years to recover from a simple broken leg?
My nephew broke his leg. He had it set and was back on his feet in 6 months.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with healthcare.
Does the bar allow smoking inside? Or do they force smokers to go stand outside on poorly lit cracked sidewalks?
Pay up anti-smoking Nazis!
...imitates Viz:
“I’ll bet she never wears those silly (uncomfortable) shoes again.”
I’ll bet she does!!
Maybe the laws are different in the UK.
Also, six months seems like a long time to be off work for a broken leg unless she is a dancer or something. I was back in my office three days after surgery to plate & screw complete tib/fib fractures which were just short of being compound (sustained in a motorcycle racing accident).
PS - I did NOT sue the race track owner, the promoter OR the guy whose engine blew up and coated the track with oil — in fact I never even considered it. ;^)
well, the bar makes her go outside to smoke.
of course the gov’t probably made the bar make her go outside..
Maybe the British newspapers have started getting corporate sponsors for the articles.
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