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Visit.is » Naked German women get lost in Swedish woods — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:50:48 +0000

[...] Icelander drowns in Norway [...]

By: densou

densou — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:18:03 +0000

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 ? ;)

By: densou

densou — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:15:27 +0000

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)

By: Øystein; Norway

Øystein; Norway — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:32:55 +0000

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.

By: SIR EURO IS BACK

SIR EURO IS BACK — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:48:58 +0000

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…

By: Jimbo (the original Jim)

Jimbo (the original Jim) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:48:44 +0000

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…

By: Axel

Axel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:24:13 +0000

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.

By: Bromley86

Bromley86 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:10:28 +0000

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.

By: Jimbo (the original Jim)

Jimbo (the original Jim) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:32:40 +0000

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.

By: Bromley86

Bromley86 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:00:19 +0000

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.