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Post by GUPTA on Jan 10, 2008 12:21:24 GMT -1
a paramedic in staffordshire has been offered £40.000 for an attack that nearly cost him his life while answering a 999 call the 36 year old lost an eye and was in a drug induced coma for nine days and has had to teach himself to talk again after thugs threw a 10lb lump of concrete threw the windscreen of his ambulance in 2001...now six years later he has been offered £40.000 by the criminal compensation board when you consider what this man has been through in the past six this is a disgrace and and a insult when the YORKSHIRE RIPPER peter sutcliffe received £196.000 after losing an eye in an attack by another inmate in 1997....
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Post by ArgyleChick on Jan 10, 2008 12:25:24 GMT -1
That's typical though isn't it
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Post by HURLOCK on Jan 10, 2008 12:26:14 GMT -1
fucking Joke
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 10, 2008 12:26:15 GMT -1
I concur that the Paramedic can feel hard-done by, especially given your example. However the fact of the matter is neither of them should be compensated. The Paramedic was unlucky, and deserves support etc. but not a fat payout. The Ripper should think himself fortunate that the attack on him wasn't worse! As a final thought, as Black Box Recorder sang a few years ago - "Life is unfair. Kill yourself or get over it!"  |
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Post by HURLOCK on Jan 10, 2008 12:28:17 GMT -1
so it's ok for him to be a vegetable Jules! What sort of message are you sending out there
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Post by Travis on Jan 10, 2008 12:28:28 GMT -1
I concur that the Paramedic can feel hard-done by, especially given your example. However the fact of the matter is neither of them should be compensated. The Paramedic was unlucky, and deserves support etc. but not a fat payout. The Ripper should think himself fortunate that the attack on him wasn't worse! As a final thought, as Black Box Recorder sang a few years ago - "Life is unfair. Kill yourself or get over it!" Alternatively, they also sang 'The Facts Of Life' Jules.  |
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Post by HURLOCK on Jan 10, 2008 12:30:00 GMT -1
I concur that the Paramedic can feel hard-done by, especially given your example. However the fact of the matter is neither of them should be compensated. The Paramedic was unlucky, and deserves support etc. but not a fat payout. The Ripper should think himself fortunate that the attack on him wasn't worse! As a final thought, as Black Box Recorder sang a few years ago - "Life is unfair. Kill yourself or get over it!" Alternatively, they also sang 'The Facts Of Life' Jules. suffer little children more like |
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 10, 2008 12:31:03 GMT -1
so it's ok for him to be a vegetable Jules! What sort of message are you sending out there Just being controversial. I didn't say don't punish the c*nts who caused him to be a vegetable. I didn't say don't treat him so that he makes a full recovery. I did say don't give him a huge payout. There is a case for him getting at least loss of earnings though for the time he was at death's door - which I'd imagine is a lot more than 40k. |
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Post by MozzaBedfordSpur on Jan 10, 2008 12:31:15 GMT -1
I concur that the Paramedic can feel hard-done by, especially given your example. However the fact of the matter is neither of them should be compensated. The Paramedic was unlucky, and deserves support etc. but not a fat payout. The Ripper should think himself fortunate that the attack on him wasn't worse! As a final thought, as Black Box Recorder sang a few years ago - "Life is unfair. Kill yourself or get over it!" Alternatively, they also sang 'The Facts Of Life' Jules. I got that tune, the lead singer was a bit of a hottie. Totally unfair, this is such a loveless world. |
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 10, 2008 12:33:18 GMT -1
Alternatively, they also sang 'The Facts Of Life' Jules. That was a VERY strange song! |
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Post by MozzaBedfordSpur on Jan 10, 2008 12:34:12 GMT -1
Alternatively, they also sang 'The Facts Of Life' Jules. suffer little children more like "Over the moors, take me to the moors........." I want to burst out in song now, but I'm at work ;D |
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Post by Travis on Jan 10, 2008 12:34:29 GMT -1
Alternatively, they also sang 'The Facts Of Life' Jules. I got that tune, the lead singer was a bit of a hottie. Totally unfair, this is such a loveless world. Actually I was waiting for a 'Sweet And Tender Hooligan' reference there Mozz; just about sums up the appeasive nature of the law and order system.  |
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Post by GUPTA on Jan 10, 2008 12:35:06 GMT -1
so it's ok for him to be a vegetable Jules! What sort of message are you sending out there Just being controversial. I didn't say don't punish the c*nts who caused him to be a vegetable. I didn't say don't treat him so that he makes a full recovery. I did say don't give him a huge payout. There is a case for him getting at least loss of earnings though for the time he was at death's door - which I'd imagine is a lot more than 40k. think what you need to remember is this guy had spent years of his life training to to do a job that could save anyone of our lifes and was not locked up for murdering at least 12 women.....personally i think its a disgrace |
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 10, 2008 12:35:58 GMT -1
I got that tune, the lead singer was a bit of a hottie. Sarah Nixey, I would put up a pic but shouldn't hijack this thread more than I already have  I'll do another thread |
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Post by MozzaBedfordSpur on Jan 10, 2008 12:36:52 GMT -1
I got that tune, the lead singer was a bit of a hottie. Totally unfair, this is such a loveless world. Actually I was waiting for a 'Sweet And Tender Hooligan' reference there Mozz; just about sums up the appeasive nature of the law and order system. "She was old and she would of died anyway, don't blame the sweet and tender hooligan." It's like as Lemar would say "Is there any justice in the world." |
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Post by HURLOCK on Jan 10, 2008 12:38:16 GMT -1
and how the fuck is Sutcliffe going to spend that money, he should be forced to give it to charity
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Post by Travis on Jan 10, 2008 12:39:02 GMT -1
Actually I was waiting for a 'Sweet And Tender Hooligan' reference there Mozz; just about sums up the appeasive nature of the law and order system. "She was old and she would of died anyway, don't blame the sweet and tender hooligan." It's like as Lemar would say "Is there any justice in the world." Think I'll leave the Mozz in the exalted position of spokesman for the disaffected generation. As for Lemar.....  |
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Post by ArgyleChick on Jan 10, 2008 12:40:07 GMT -1
so it's ok for him to be a vegetable Jules! What sort of message are you sending out there Just being controversial. I didn't say don't punish the c*nts who caused him to be a vegetable. I didn't say don't treat him so that he makes a full recovery. I did say don't give him a huge payout. There is a case for him getting at least loss of earnings though for the time he was at death's door - which I'd imagine is a lot more than 40k. you don't know many paramedics then!!! £40k is probably about 18mths worth! |
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Post by Travis on Jan 10, 2008 12:40:53 GMT -1
and how the fuck is Sutcliffe going to spend that money, he should be forced to give it to charity  |
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Post by jh1980 on Jan 10, 2008 12:41:01 GMT -1
think what you need to remember is this guy had spent years of his life training to to do a job that could save anyone of our lifes and was not locked up for murdering at least 12 women.....personally i think its a disgrace I partially agree Android... but I'm trying to give a slightly more nuanced view. I agree that Paramedics in general are great people and deserve praise for doing what they do - on pretty low wages. I agree that the Ripper should not have been given any money at all. I'm probably tilting at the wrong windmill but I have an issue with the compensation culture and while I agree that the Paramedic should be given more than 40k, I'd have been equally disgusted if he was made for the rest of his life with a seven-figure payout. |
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