Random Things Costing £700,000ish
Two items of complete and utter pointlessness on offer for the ongoing confusion of our readership.
First up we have the “Hillsboro Banner” of North Dakota informing us that the Viking Bridge is to be saved. Eh? You don’t read the Banner? TheEye is shocked.
We learn that “Restoration of the Viking Bridge in Traill County next year will cost $700,000.
“Built in 1885 and which now spans over the Goose River one mile west and one mile north of Portland, the Viking Bridge was selected by the North Dakota Department of Transportation to be included in its Bridge Management Plan, a project coordinated in part by the state Historical Society and designed to save historic bridges in the state.”
Luckily we are in the hands of engineer Kris Bakkegard, so all will be well. Sleep sound
ly tonight, folks. The article is only interesting in quite how anally retentive it becomes with the project details.
However thats not the only way to get rid of £700,000. TheEye offers you news that a man has been awarded a 700,000 GBP pay out after a trampoline accident – because leisure centre staff didn’t warn him it was dangerous. Peter Herz, 43, broke his neck as he tried to turn a somersault during a birthday bash at the gym in Cologne, Germany.
The court award is the highest personal injury claim in German legal history for a leisure activity. Judges heard how he attempted acrobatics while his family looked on. They ruled that the leisure centre was at fault for not displaying warning signs that trampolining is a dangerous activity.
TheEye contemplates the mortgage and quietly sobs. A freak Trampolining-Whilst-Fixing-A-Bridge no win no fee case may be on the cards.
The Eye should take a day trip to Lyme Regis and hurl himself off The Cob to likewise claim compo since the town council declined to festoon it with danger notices after a local fell off it following his alcohol fuelled frenzy 18th birthday bash.
From your link
“A Romanian Mrs Mop who wrestled a crowbar from two crooks and used it to beat them over the head until they fled is to get a bravery award ”
http://www.austriantimes.at/index.php?vid=47
Blimey, over here she’d get an ASBO and be ordered to pay £700,000 compensation.
Having read as far as The Eye should take a day trip to Lyme Regis and hurl himself off The Cob the EBC was looking on a ban from this site for threatening behaviour *grin* but reading onwards you make a very good point.
And the Austrian Times is a good source of nonsense to blog about too. It’s a daily check for random stuff.
“highest personal injury claim in German legal history for a leisure activity”
what could you have got if you’d sued the Kaiser or Adolf? Is that a German leisure activity?