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I just read on twitter that the government have promised to reduce Jay Z's problems to 75 too. Which is good.

Just came to post this.

More people are interested in the Insane Clown Posse though. Ha!

Huh? Do you mean the Tea Party or HM Government?

Paperboy smashed up by HGV has to pay DRIVER compensation for post-traumatic stress

Apologies if it's a repost, the case was reported in the summer but I only just found out about it via the outstanding Cycling Lawyer blog. Time to leave the country, fellow cyclists?

A PAPERBOY run over by a lorry out on his rounds five years ago will not receive a penny in compensation, an Appeal Court has ruled.

Joshua Smith, of Hollington Road, Tean, suffered a fractured pelvis, an open head wound, a ruptured kidney, bruised lungs, broken teeth, lacerations and a brain injury when he was hit by the lorry at the age of 13 in September 2005.

But yesterday top judges decided the lorry's driver could in no way be blamed for the accident.

Instead, they ruled that trucker, Mark Hammond, of Paragon Close, Cheadle, is due a payout from Joshua's employers – the Co-operative Group Ltd – for the post traumatic stress disorder he suffered after knocking the youngster off the bike he had been given for Christmas.

Driver in no way to blame gets compensation for PTSD. And?....

Paperboy smashed up by HGV has to pay DRIVER compensation for post-traumatic stress

Apologies if it's a repost, the case was reported in the summer but I only just found out about it via the outstanding Cycling Lawyer blog. Time to leave the country, fellow cyclists?

A PAPERBOY run over by a lorry out on his rounds five years ago will not receive a penny in compensation, an Appeal Court has ruled.

Joshua Smith, of Hollington Road, Tean, suffered a fractured pelvis, an open head wound, a ruptured kidney, bruised lungs, broken teeth, lacerations and a brain injury when he was hit by the lorry at the age of 13 in September 2005.

But yesterday top judges decided the lorry's driver could in no way be blamed for the accident.

Instead, they ruled that trucker, Mark Hammond, of Paragon Close, Cheadle, is due a payout from Joshua's employers – the Co-operative Group Ltd – for the post traumatic stress disorder he suffered after knocking the youngster off the bike he had been given for Christmas.

To be fair, i don't get your point either...
Without knowing all the details they say the kid ran into the truck??

Genuine accidents are sadly a reality, this sounds like one too me :(

Don't get me wrong, i'm not a truck lover ffs!

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23889978-perfect-for-a-boris-bike-and-8201-invisible-cycling-collar-with-a-built-in-airbag.do

British Motor Show won't return for 2012

Get it in!!

que?

I've been to these and although it is just a Petrol head cock off it is one more step to becoming Lesser Britain. Not Good.

aah. cars. i like cars. i have one. it's dead good for going to the seaside in. or doing a Big Shop.

Driver in no way to blame gets compensation for PTSD. And?....

Yes I put this badly. Perhaps I was imagining how the Daily Mail would have reported the story if it was an aggressively anti-motorist paper (hence the single capitalised word, a favourite device of that mighty organ).

Seriously though, while I don't think the case is anywhere near as clearcut as you suggest, I'm more concerned about the wider implications, the inherent danger posed to cyclists and peds on residential streets by fast and big vehicles, and the lack of 20mph limits etc, as discussed at length in the CL post I cited above.

These are well-rehearsed argument that we don't need to go into here but I also subscribe to the view expressed in that post that 'in most of Europe the cyclist would have succeeded in his claim against the HGV driver despite the driver being held not to be at fault. This is, in my view, justifiable here on the premise that HGVs are large dangerous vehicles which should only be permitted onto the roads o terms that they pay for the damage occasioned by their presence. However I hold a minority view on this and although widespread in the European Union and apparently recommended by the soon to be abolished quango, Cycling England; the motoring public here would not stand for it and it is manifestly not something the Judges can alter.

Worth reading the whole way through this if you can stomach it

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/23/iraq-war-logs-october-17-20061

That creature Dick Cheney makes me fill sick to the stomach.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-11617679

British Motor Show won't return for 2012

Get it in!!

This is Sad.

^ Why? That he wrote "Get it in!!" when it seems he meant "Get in!!"?

Far from it, it show that car manufacturer aren't doing well in the recent well.

Article discussing porn and movements of men against porn in the guardian:

McCormack Evans says porn-watchers can quickly descend into self-hatred. "They're sitting there afterwards, and there's an image left on the screen, and they look at themselves and think, 'I'm disgusting' . . . Then their daughter comes in, or their wife, or their girlfriend, and they've just been to Pilates, and the next day they start looking up Pilates porn, or something crazy like that, and they feel even worse. It can become quite self-destructive."

hahah, Pilates porn.

Pilates Porn!!

Is that, like, Chinese pirate porn?

I can't find on here, but apologies if this is a pea roast.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/24/bike-snobs-guide-cycling-tribes

whoever wrote that piece of intellectualy lazy, vapid toss clearly doesn't like fixies very much. how refreshing. moving on.

Watch out kids

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/24/firesheep-in-wolves-clothing-app-lets-you-hack-into-twitter-facebook-accounts-easily/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+Tputh+(TPUTH+-+Breaking+News+With+The+Social+Hammer

looks like fun, gonna have a go at that next time im chowing down at maccy d's

I can't find on here, but apologies if this is a pea roast.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/24/bike-snobs-guide-cycling-tribes

Compatibility [of Triathletes] with other cyclists: Can occasionally mix with Roadies, like when you see a couple of pigeons hanging out with a bunch of seagulls.
haha

whoever wrote that piece of intellectualy lazy, vapid toss clearly doesn't like fixies very much. how refreshing. moving on.

It's clearly a joke mate

I can't find on here, but apologies if this is a pea roast.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/oct/24/bike-snobs-guide-cycling-tribes

Haha, yeah read it in the observer mag at the weekend.
Recognised a few folk on there not least myself!

Brilliant :)