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Title: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Barman on June 12, 2009, 07:31:32 AM: [quote"The Times"]A public school is being sued by a former pupil who was permanently disabled following a drunken fall from a window.

Amy St Johnston was a 16-year-old pupil at Oundle School when she got drunk at a Valentine’s Day ball and fell 15ft from her first-floor window. Miss St Johnston, now a 20-year-old classics student at Selwyn College, Cambridge, claims that the incident happened because of a “drinking culture” among students at the school. She is reported to be demanding £300,000 in damages.[/quote]

Source (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6483114.ece)

FFS - it gets worse by the day... noooo:

Window limiters - what next, ban upper floors altogether in case somebody slips on the stairs?
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2009, 07:32:11 AM: Or roofs in case some idiot falls off them noooo:
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Barman on June 12, 2009, 07:32:35 AM: Quote from: Nick on June 12, 2009, 07:32:11 AM
Or roofs in case some idiot falls of them
Ban roofs you say...? rubschin:
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 12, 2009, 08:01:20 AM: She will win her case......

they are supposed to have limiters on the windows
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2009, 08:01:44 AM: And she was not supposed to be pissed
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 12, 2009, 08:04:36 AM: Agreed - but the drinking issues is going to be treated as a separate matter - I guarantee it . The fact is it could have been anybody opening the window for whatever reason ... surrender:
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 12, 2009, 08:31:34 AM: Quote from: Miss Demeanor on June 12, 2009, 08:04:36 AM
Agreed - but the drinking issues is going to be treated as a separate matter - I guarantee it . The fact is it could have been anybody opening the window for whatever reason ... surrender:

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Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Miss Demeanour on June 12, 2009, 08:32:50 AM: I think that would most likely cause a car crash ...or head injuries from walking into lamp posts eeek:
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Snoopy on June 12, 2009, 08:33:20 AM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on June 12, 2009, 08:31:34 AM
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on June 12, 2009, 08:04:36 AM
Agreed - but the drinking issues is going to be treated as a separate matter - I guarantee it . The fact is it could have been anybody opening the window for whatever reason ... surrender:

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Cycle Rack? eeek:
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2009, 08:34:07 AM: I still have a scar on my forehead following some similar incident in London many years ago redface:
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 12, 2009, 08:39:02 AM: Quote from: Nick on June 12, 2009, 08:34:07 AM
I still have a scar on my forehead following some similar incident in London many years ago redface:
Didn't you sit on a towel then?
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2009, 08:39:23 AM: ::)
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on June 12, 2009, 08:48:49 AM: Quote from: Barman on June 12, 2009, 07:32:35 AM
Quote from: Nick on June 12, 2009, 07:32:11 AM
Or roofs in case some idiot falls of them
Ban roofs you say...? rubschin:

eeek: I didn't recognise you for a moment BM, you are BM aren't you?
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Nick on June 12, 2009, 08:50:58 AM: It's stuck on his head noooo:
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Uncle Mort on June 12, 2009, 09:08:43 AM: Why sue now and not 4 years ago when it happened?
Title: Re: Former pupil sues Oundle School over drunken fall from window
Post by: Darwins Selection on June 12, 2009, 12:31:24 PM: Quote from: Uncle Mort on June 12, 2009, 09:08:43 AM
Why sue now and not 4 years ago when it happened?

Student loan payback time?