Tw@t of the Month

SteveR_100Milers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7332462.stm

Maybe he might get the annual award, lets hope any damages are forwarded to the family of the poor bugger that actuallly died.

Tom Butcher

How much is 10 seconds of distress worth do you think ?

priory

So it seems that his children went on the flight with apparent chicken pox, this exposing hundreds of people, some of whom would be pregnant, aids cases, cancer sufferers, on steroids or other immunosuppression. :shock:
If the passengers find out out the danger and fear that his family have caused he might need all the compensation he can get, poor chap: were there many american lawyers on board ?
TerryJ

OffTheBackAdam

Chicken Pox isn't harmful to pregnant women, it's Rubella (German Measles) that is.
It's typical of the compensation culture that we've got these days.

Clever Pun

oh I don't know this guy is a prize A1 di<k

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7322347.stm

SteveR_100Milers

but at least he is harmless, eccentric yes, but not not a whining little git trying to screw money out of someone, worse still out of someone elses death...

jellybellywmb

Was the part where he said " All that matters is that my family are safe and condolences to the family of the man who died"

If anything happens now people immediatley think they are entiteled to a payout of some description .
Although it must have been terrible for him why can't he just be bloody grateful

ricadus

If anything happens now people immediatley think they are entiteled to a payout of some description .

That's what the insurance industry hopes, so they can sell all sorts of accident and litigation policies.

Denny69

INSURANCE = LEGALISED EXTORTION

priory

I just noticed this post, here is the belated reply, copied from cds page:

Vaccines and Preventable Diseases:
Varicella Vaccine - Q&As about Pregnancy
Clinical Questions and Answers

Question and Answer image

What are the risks of varicella in pregnant women?

Susceptible pregnant women are at risk for associated complications when they contract varicella. Varicella causes severe maternal morbidity, and 10%-20% of infected women develop varicella pneumonia, with mortality reported as high as 40%.

Newborns whose mothers develop varicella rash from 5 days before to 2 days after delivery are at risk for neonatal varicella, associated with mortality as high as 30%. Furthermore, intrauterine infection may result in stillbirth, herpes zoster during infancy or early childhood, or congenital varicella syndrome.