Norwegian police have confirmed they have found the body of a missing Icelandic citizen.
The police found the body of a 48 year-old Icelander in a lake near the village of Noresund yesterday after extensive searches.
The man was made to get off a coach at 01.00 Sunday morning for being too drunk. Nobody saw him after that time.
According to Visir.is, dozens of police and fire fighters searched for the man with the help of the Red Cross. Search dogs were also used.
Yesterday, when the search was resumed, it was the crew of a Search & Rescue helicopter which spotted the body floating in the lake near Noresund.
The man’s relatives should sue the bus company for failing to provide a duty of care for its customers.
Hell yes they should sue and i hope they do. I live in Norway. Inappropriateness is quietly frowned upon. Ok he was drunk. Bad Boy. I think the buss company had a responsibility to take him either to his destination or to a safe place such as a police station if they deemed him too drunk. Where is the duty of care here? Of course nothing will happen to compensate the family or prevent this from happening again. Why? Because Norwegian society is a conservative, conformist, militaristic place deeply sick and deeply bereft of any love for a fellow man, let alone someone from another country. The only thing that covers this reality from being seen easily is the vast amounts of oil and arms money which lubricates the cancerous jaws of this society. Please somebody get me back to Iceland asap…
You may be right, Yip Yip. But it isn’t worse than this Southern Hell. …AT ALL
(or if you prefer: “I have become like that in order for my survival here” bleh)
To Yip Yip: Thank you for so candidly and honestly expressing your point of view about your experience in Norway. My observations of Finnish society are almost identical. It amazes me how the native people of such places do not seem to see the sickness of the society in which they live. Perhaps your theory on how this came to be is correct. One word of caution – if you keep writing like this you too will be called a “racist” by ignorant and uneducated people, such as Sund, who do not know what the word means. They cannot see that these societies as a whole have deep emotional problems – it is possible that they as individuals are afflicted with the same disturbances.
Not the company’s responsibility. Did they get him drunk? No. Did they drop him off in a lake? I’ll assume no.
He screwed up and paid for it and that’s a little sad. But I’d rather bus and other companies feel that they have the right, or even the duty, to ensure that the rest of their customers can enjoy their travel etc. in peace.
The issue is whether the company was legally negligent (it was clearly not diligent) in abandoning a drunk man in the middle of nowhere. If it was reasonably foreseeable that he could come to some harm, then his family have the foundation for a case. For a company, duty of care should overrides everything else. Imagine if a bus company abandoned your drunk daughter in the middle of Bodmin Moor at night, where she then died of exposure.
We’ll have to disagree then Jim. Your route leads to companies refusing to allow anyone who is a potential risk to travel and/or an increase in costs for all, mine leads to this sort of situation.
And, although not a big place, they did drop him off somewhere with a hotel and a camp site.
If this guy had been Norwegian this matter would have been handled differently, Icelanders are the new Poles in Norway, sad, humiliating and unexeptable.
There was a very good reason why Icelandic settlers left Norway, people should remember that and stay in Iceland.
Well, the bus company will have public liability insurance to cover precisely these kinds of claims where duty of care has faltered – and the insurance risk premiums are predicated on at least some such claims being successful…
POOR MAN TO START WITH. POLICE SHOULD HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT HIM, AND MAYBE THEY COULD HAD TAKEN CARE OF HIM BEFORE HE DRAWN. BUT TOO LATE…
HOWEVER AXEL, I DON’T THINK HE WAS TREATED DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE HE WAS ICELANDIC…
The bus driver called the police and made an agreement with them. He was allowed to drive further. Sadly the police was a bit away, so they did not find the man when they arrived to pick him up/take care of him.
How it works here: when you get off of the bus at the stop, it’s up to you if you wanna live or die (don’t even think anyone would truly care about if you’re only drunk – our police can’t bother itself with accomplishing useless task for the sake of others)
P.S. Well, it wasn’t my last complain about this filthy place. I meant “hey, you are so lucky there, bus drivers are willing to help for real”. Gotcha ? ;)