• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

Trauma - Legal Advice Required

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Trauma - Legal Advice Required

    Went for a walk in the countryside at the weekend and had a very distressing experience.

    I was walking on a thoroughfare clearly marked as a public right of way which traversed a number of fields and some wooded terrain.
    Whilst crossing one of said fields, I decided to browse the hedgerows to determine if I could glean the last of the year's blackberry crop.

    Whilst engaged in this activity, I became aware of a rapidly approaching heavy footfall and heavy breathing . Turning to face the source of these sounds, I found myself confronted with a huge Charolais bull just 20 feet or so from the position in which I stood. Panicking, I just threw myself into the hedge and tore my way through it in a desperate attempt to escape the attentions of this bovine behemoth. Fortunately, you'll be glad to hear, I did make it through to the other side but at a cost. I received some severe lacerations to my face and forearms from brambles and rusty barbed wire and I also hurt my right crural appendage on exiting the hedgerow owing to landing awkwardly.

    Now, the whole point of this post is that I am considering taking legal action against the farmer and I want to canvass the opinion of the good people of CUK. I would attest that a farmer should not allow a dangerous animal in a field which is traversed by a public thoroughfare as the health and safety of the walking general public is greatly compromised. My friend Malc disagrees saying that a farmer is not resopnsible for the safety of those who cross his land. If he were he could end up in court just by dint, for example, of there being a stray boulder lying in his filed on which somebody has twisted their ankle.

    Any comments would be most welcome.

    #2
    Admin, please retire this sad chunt.
    Me, me, me...

    Comment


      #3
      Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
      Any comments would be most welcome.
      Unlike you

      Comment


        #4
        (\__/)
        (>'.'<)
        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

        Comment


          #5
          Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
          Admin, please retire this sad chunt.
          Oh come on, it's pretty good isn't it?

          Comment


            #6
            Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
            Oh come on, it's pretty good isn't it?
            No it's shockingly boring
            Bazza gets caught
            Socrates - "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

            CUK University Challenge Champions 2010

            Comment


              #7
              Your friend Malc is wrong. Report the presence of a mature, solitary, non-dairy bull in a field with a Right of Way to the Police.

              Do report back to us.
              My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

              Comment


                #8
                Originally posted by gricerboy View Post
                I am considering taking legal action against the farmer
                Now that's smells of bull

                Comment


                  #9
                  Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
                  Your friend Malc is wrong. Report the presence of a mature, solitary, non-dairy bull in a field with a Right of Way to the Police.
                  Seriously?

                  Comment


                    #10
                    Originally posted by cailin maith View Post
                    No it's shockingly boring
                    I don't think you'd have found it boring if YOU'D BEEN IN MY SHOES AT THE TIME.

                    Comment

                    Working...
                    X