Sometime, you just couldn’t make it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In one news story today<\/a>, two young girls were treated in hospital for burns they sustained to their bare feet after walking on to freshly-laid tarmac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fair enough: it’s obviously not something you want to happen – but it happens. It’s what they call ‘an accident’. Well, they used to. But not nowadays. You see, the girls’ parents are going to sue the backsides off whoever they can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their parents Robert and Hazel Woodley are now planning to sue for damages, claiming there were no proper signs or barriers to warn holidaymakers of the newly laid surface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n There were<\/strong> cones. And if memory serves me correctly, the rising (and often visible) fumes tend to be a bit of a giveaway. And just what kind of parent allows kids to walk barefoot on what is obviously new (and therefore sticky) tarmac? Burns or not, you just don’t walk barefoot on something which is sticky and dirty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The father, Robert Woodley, laid it on thick – no doubt in preparation for the millions he is going to try and claim:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The girls were just screaming in pain. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone in such pain. It was awful for us to see the kids in such agony.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Woodley said one side of the path was lined with a few traffic cones but there was nothing to stop people walking across the hot surface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Of course, seeing as a local council is involved, Mr Woodley can probably expect to receive at least a six-figure settlement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clive Smith, head of Poole council’s leisure services, said they planned to carry out a full investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added: “Leisure services staff were on site immediately after this incident occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We are taking this incident very seriously.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
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