Jordy
15-04-2008, 11:07 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7347691.stm
I think it's very sad that someone in the Army dropped the gun and it went off and hit a teenager who had some reasonably serious injuries, it might be permanent though. However I don't think you should give compensation and payouts to people in a time of war, war just wouldn't be feasable if you had to give payouts to everyone. It's a factor that's civilians do get injured, but you take the risk going into the war. I do oppose the war in Iraq but I don't think you should give payouts to civilians, and nothing on his scale.
The compensation is higher than anything paid to any British troops injured in Iraq.It's just pathetic our government could be so silly, we give about £100,000 to our soldiers who lose all their limbs in the Iraqi war, they cannot do anything for themselves or get another source of income and must live off 100k, but instead a random teenager gets 2 million pounds for life, not only can he live off that, but he can live off that really nicely!
I can't believe we're even compensating him in the first place though it is very sad, and then we give about 20 times what some of ours have been paid!
I think it's very sad that someone in the Army dropped the gun and it went off and hit a teenager who had some reasonably serious injuries, it might be permanent though. However I don't think you should give compensation and payouts to people in a time of war, war just wouldn't be feasable if you had to give payouts to everyone. It's a factor that's civilians do get injured, but you take the risk going into the war. I do oppose the war in Iraq but I don't think you should give payouts to civilians, and nothing on his scale.
The compensation is higher than anything paid to any British troops injured in Iraq.It's just pathetic our government could be so silly, we give about £100,000 to our soldiers who lose all their limbs in the Iraqi war, they cannot do anything for themselves or get another source of income and must live off 100k, but instead a random teenager gets 2 million pounds for life, not only can he live off that, but he can live off that really nicely!
I can't believe we're even compensating him in the first place though it is very sad, and then we give about 20 times what some of ours have been paid!