Get spazzed while committing a crime, still get payout

[Rogerborg]

Good news, reefer fiends!

If you get potatoed as a passenger (i.e. 3rd party) while dealing, the insurance exemption for being in a vehicle being used to commit a crime does not apply!

Better yet, it's not even the insurer that has to pay for your whole life care, it's the State, i.e. taxpayers.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11459113/Drug-dealer-wins-government-compensation-battle-after-road-crash.html

Rejoice!
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[Ste]

"A firefighter found a package of cannabis hidden in Pickett's sock"

Seems entirely reasonable for fire fighters to be checking inside peoples socks.

[noobRider]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[oldpink]

well he had a couple of grams in his sock, I doubt he was dealing
his mate on the other hand is a dick for driving like a loony with 2 1/2Kg shoved up his jumper and smashing the car
thats one sure way to get caught
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[Ste]

His bar was 12g, he shouldn't go back to that dealer.

[DrDonnyBrago]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

This happened at the school my daughter used to attend. No verdict published yet but the sheer audacity of the little shite in suing the Council makes me want to kick him in the head.

Known scumbag falls through roof while breaking into school, smashes own skull, cries to mummy, then sues school....pfft!

Should have been laughed out of court.

And another thing, it cost us £10,000 to fix him, which is a lot of vinegar and brown paper when you think about it.
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[BakesBeans]

Not to defend the chap, but he wasn't convicted of a crime at all.
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[-Matt-]

Different sources are giving quite a bit more/less information than others From what i've gathered though...

Pickett - driver - small bit of weed in his sock. Convicted of dangerous driving and possession of cannabis. 10 month sentence.

Delaney - passenger - lots of weed in his jacket. Seriously injured. No charges.

[Rogerborg]

Largely moot now that the get-out has been sort-of stricken.

Oh, in other news, the UK requirement to only have insurance for use in public places is now inadequate, due to some Elbonian mud raker being spazzed by a tractor and taking it to Strasbourg.

Expect a change in the law eventually, and a concurrent rise in premiums. The whole issue of having vehicles SORNed and uninsured at all might be put into play.
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[unitynotsocri...]

Not as shocking as how people with autism get robbed by insurance companies and abused by the police......

At least the cheeky drug dealers can t claim for loss of earnings.....
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[Vracktal]

[Ste]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11008809/Gardeners-with-sit-on-lawnmowers-face-buying-motor-insurance.html

[bamt]

So from that Telegraph article, they believe it will cost £100 per year to insure a ride-on lawnmower that never leaves you property for 3rd party risks.

That suggests that ride-on lawnmowers are more likely to be involved in accidents than my kitten-killing bike. Is this some national scandal that the newspapers are covering up? Are the summer afternoons in affluent areas (where you'll have a big enough lawn to need one of those machines) punctuated by the sound of screams of poor innocents being maimed by maniacal lawn mower riders? Something must done to protect us from this danger! Won't someone /please/ think of the children?

[Rogerborg]

[Vracktal]

[iooi]

[J0Al1]

No ladders?

[Rogerborg]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[Suntan Sid]

https://arewefullyet.com/images/2012/12/nelson-haha.jpg
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[Rogerborg]

Paid out of their benefits at £2 a week forever.

Only the lawyers win.
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[pepperami]

[lihp]

If vehicles have to be covered for private usage, I can see the cost of insurance going through the roof for any sports bike.

It won't be a difficult connection to make that sports bikes often get used on trackdays, thus, must be covered for 3rd party risks on a track too.
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