'Existential' head of damage... (1 Viewer)

[Frigid]

try pleading this in your next torts moot

Late trains derail teacher

December 28, 2005

ROME: A commuter who says repeated delays on the Italian rail network are making his life a misery is planning to sue the train company for allegedly causing him "existential damage".

Mauro Brunetti, a teacher who travels by rail every day to his job in a school in Savona, says he is so exasperated by the constant uncertainty of whether his train will arrive on time that he sometimes wonders if his life has any value or meaning.

The failings of local train services have been making his life impossible and affecting his sense of self, he said. While researching recent court cases, he found references to people sustaining "existential damage" as a result of the behaviour of another person or legal entity and he decided to apply the same arguments to Trenitalia, the national rail group.

"As a teacher I have to respect timetables," he told the newspaper, Secolo XIX. "Shortcomings in this area could have serious consequences - and not only from a disciplinary point of view."

He said that by not being in the classroom when he was supposed to be there, he ran the risk of being sued by parents for neglecting his responsibilities.

"As well as causing material damage, this situation clearly creates intense stress with consequences that recent jurisprudence says can be defined as 'existential damage'," he added.

The legal challenge comes as hundreds of thousands of Italians are having to get used to new train timetables introduced by Trenitalia.

One recent example involved an express train to Florence, which was first posted as 25 minutes late, then flashed up as 10 minutes late, then went back to 20 minutes late. The train actually arrived on time.

The Guardian

 

[melsc]

lmao..that is all I can say

 

[absolution*]

hahaha. <3

 

[MoonlightSonata]

Brilliant ..

 

[Wolfowitz]

If a similar thing were to come into Australia could we sue the Board for fucking Hamlet in English?

I'd also venture Beckett's Godot in Drama, but they took Absurdism off the list this year...

 

[Frigid]

If a similar thing were to come into Australia could we sue the Board for fucking Hamlet in English?

I'd also venture Beckett's Godot in Drama, but they took Absurdism off the list this year...

-_-"

not funny unless you understand torts damages.

 

[MiuMiu]

Hehe crrrrazy Italians