CAN someone please drop a grape in my path so I can slide on it and claim enough compensation to retire to the sun?
It seems the little fruit is the favourite for giving its accident victims jackpot payouts.
Last week a 44-years-old woman won £550,000 from Asda after slipping on one and falling. Though doctors diagnosed minor damage to her fingers after the accident, she later had to have a hip replacement, which failed, and left her in a wheelchair.
Arguments that she could have needed one anyway were dismissed and the superstore coughed up damages.
Wonder how long it'll be before she makes a recovery?
This case follows numerous "grape mishap" payouts by shops. Last May Sainsburys doled out £203,000, a long way ahead of the meagre, but surely more realistic, £3,500 handed over by Safeway in 1999 and £4,000 by Tesco in 1998.
It just goes to show how the sue 'em society is taking off in a big way.
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