Gear

I have heard of cases in America where doctors drive past serious road traffic accidents ect as they are scared of being sued as the one thing we are not obliged to do in this country of america is help at all.
You can legaly walk past a child face down in a foot of water and not help.
Please dont let Britian go the same way.In New Zealand you cant sue anybody, the goverment can prosecute if it sees fit and no fault injury compensation comes from a central fund, It has its good and bad sides.
I met a bloke on the ferry from Wellington who has ridden his motorbike, blind drunk into a wall and got compensation.
But people dont worry about being sued just trying to help poeple.
On the subjuct of first aid kit, love them or hate them, some times a mobile phone is the best tool.A couple of people I know have sustained nasty leg fractures and the only thing to do was keep them warm and get help and allthough there was no signal in both cases at the accident site a signal was to be found much closer than a land line.

What I think has helped to exacerbate the 'blame culture' in the UK is the rash of adverts for 'ambulance chaser' companies.

At one time if a person fell over in the street, they walked home and thought about how clumsy they were. Maybe they had a bit of a limp for a couple of days.

Now they are encouraged to take weeks off work and sue "somebody" - doesn't matter whom. Some of the so-called victims have suffered no more than a stiff neck and have received small fortunes. 'I fell over a box at work' - well so bloody what? You should look where you are going you blind sod!
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I has know companies to cease trading as they can no longer afford the insurence that they have to have to cover themselves against these sorts of claims.

A sad state of affairs when people are laid-off because of the creeping Americanisation of our culture.

A few years ago a bloke commited suicide by chucking himself off a waterfall some where in the dales,the family said there should have been a fence.When something bad happens people want to blame someone and sometimes its no ones fault. Imagine trying to fence off every cragg in the country but people want it doing, everything has to be safe. So they sit at home getting sick from lack of exercise and want the NHS to patch them up.