ITT, we determine how much I sue for...

... if we lived in the USA

I'm leaving work today, in a bit of a rush to avoid getting ticketed, so I'm walking pretty briskly. So i turn this corner in the CBD and then THWACK(!) -- I smash my toes on the stub of this fucking metal pole that is sticking out of the ground. I drop my coffee on the ground, fall over in the kind of pain I expect childbirth to be like, look down and my toenails are fkn cracked and bleeding... the construction workers that have seen this are having a laugh... and to top it off MY JANDALS ARE FKN BROKEN!

So I get home and realise 2 of my toes are swollen as fuck and wearing shoes is a no-no...

All because the council has this stupid-as-fuck policy that, if they decide some pole with a sign on it needs to go, they just cut the pole leaving 3 inches of sharp metal sticking out of the ground

So I think I could get like tree-fiddy (MILLION)

Ah my god that sounds painful!

OUCH!!!! Maybe $500k for humiliation and damage to your toes and broken jandals/

I'm sure OSH would be interested to hear about it. My old man got a rail installed on a stairway on council land a couple of years back because my sister (who is autistic) fell down them. He hollered and threatened and they changed their viewpoint. I don't see this as being too different...

Need a lawyer? I've been bob_d's pretend lawyer for a while now and pretend cases like this are my speciality.

I remember one time i was driving down the highway at night, in a new car mind you, with my girlfriend sitting in the passenger seat. When all of a sudden i see this massive pole sticking out from the side of the highway into my lane! but the pole was thin enough so that i didn't notice it until too late. It smashed into the side of my car, causing dents and scratches all down the one side. If it had been 2 feet higher it would have probably hit my girlfriend. I can't remember exactly but the pole was part of some construction equipment, as there had obviously been some road works done that day or night, and they just left it on the side of the road.. then it had most likely fallen over thus causing it to stick out into the lane.

Anyway, the council ended up paying for the damages.

pretend cases are fun!

although it is easy to criticise the more extreme aspects of the American personal injury litigation industry, one benefit is that it tends to deter some of this type of shit i.e. the threat of being hit hard in the pocket is a bigger incentive/deterrent than the prospect of a probably toothless (and uncertain) OSH inquiry.