Comments on: U.K.: “Inmate sues for falling from bunk” https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-inmate-sues-for-falling-from-bunk/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:13:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: gould631 https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-inmate-sues-for-falling-from-bunk/comment-page-1/#comment-3981 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:13:10 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3903#comment-3981 Perhaps they should have hammocks?

]]> By: markm https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-inmate-sues-for-falling-from-bunk/comment-page-1/#comment-3980 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:25:02 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3903#comment-3980 If the incident is accurately described, that’s a quite bogus lawsuit. OTOH, when I was in the service, I once had one of my men on limited duty after a defective bunk bed collapsed in the barracks. The guy in the top bunk was mainly just shaken up, but the guy on the bottom was covered with small cuts and bruises. Worse, there went half of the linemen for the squadron football team!

Not that anyone thought of suing.

]]> By: roy https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-inmate-sues-for-falling-from-bunk/comment-page-1/#comment-3979 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:05:21 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3903#comment-3979 If “the danger is obvious”, that would seems to support the prisoner’s case. After all, it was the Prison Service who put the dangerous bunk beds in place, not the prisoner.

]]> By: Amy Alkon https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/09/uk-inmate-sues-for-falling-from-bunk/comment-page-1/#comment-3978 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:15:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3903#comment-3978 Much more than bunk beds, prison is an accident waiting to happen, so if you don’t want to have accidents, you should avoid being a criminal.

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