Straight Line Legal

Nice afternoon out at the Stockport hat factory.

Yes, we are that cool! 🎩👒🧢

It's what everyone thinks of lawyers anyway ... thought I'd lean into it! 🦈

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'Talk about burning loins...'

This tale goes back a few years, from my short stint in personal injury.

❓ We were acting on behalf of a major restaurant chain where customers could serve themselves. The claimant was a middle aged chap who, somehow, had managed to get really hot custard all over his nether regions!

Everyone involved was baffled (the claimant included I imagine). The claimant blamed the restaurant's procedures including that the custard was too hot, the jug was inappropriate, and there were no proper warnings, and so on.

❗ When we finally managed to get hold of the CCTV, it showed very clearly a man who (in this order):

- picked up a hot jug of custard

- grabbed his pudding to line it up with the custard pour (some careful planning)

- turned his head about 90 degrees to chat to his pal

- commenced pouring custard

- poured half a jug of piping hot custard all over his captain Johnson.

So you can obviously see the flaw in his custard pouring technique...!

ℹ The plot thickens (put intended) however because the custard was genuinely really really hot, and there should have been checks in place. We deployed the usual 'common sense' defence but given the costs/risks I recall we reached a commercial deal in the end.

A good lesson in keeping your focus on the right things though!

What do you think? Did this chap get his just desserts?

Do you have any similar wacky cases/stories? Why not pop them in the comments 👇