Woman sues supermarket over pineapple incident.

[Crumpet]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8206204.stm

So what is the correct way to stack pineapples guys?

A pensioner is suing a supermarket after being hit on the head with a pineapple while shopping in Dundee.

Mary Raimo, 76, is said to have suffered concussion when knocked to the floor after the fruit fell from a shelf at a Tesco store in Lochee last July.

She claims it was stacked badly and was dislodged by another customer.

Her lawyer said she could get several thousand pounds in compensation. A Tesco spokeswoman said the matter was being dealt with by their legal team.

She said: "Customer safety is very important to us and we are looking into what happened, our best wishes are with Mary Raimo for a speedy recovery.

"As this matter is in the hands of our legal team, we're unable to comment further."

Ms Raimo's lawyer, Alasdair Wannan, said: "She is hoping for compensation on the basis that Tesco negligently stacked the pineapples.

"She says she is still getting headaches and neck pains and if that is the case we would be looking for several thousand pounds compensation."

The supermarket in Lochee has since closed.

 

[Acutie]

I got hit in the head whiel reaching for something on the bottom shelf. It was a 700ml can of tomatoes that hit me from about 5 above me. It also happened to be a very VERY old woman who knocked it off the shelf. Maybe I should sue her ass.

Oh and maybe she has headaches and neck pain because everyone gets headaches and neck pain. Or maybe because she's fucking 76.

 

[Valandil]

Her lawyer is an imbecile for making statements like that public.

 

[Crumpet]

Her lawyer is an imbecile for making statements like that public.

Yup, If he knows the correct way to stack some pineapples then feel free to tell us. lol

 

[LadyKiKi]

To be fair:

This does look quite threatening.

 

[Elemmire]

"you're old, no one cares if you die, shut up" Would be my legal verdict :\ I don't care if it's horrible, I hate people that are full of shit like this -_- I'm sure she's really fine and, like so many others, just trying to get money easily.. stupid crap.

 

[Tristam Green]

"you're old, no one cares if you die, shut up" Would be my legal verdict :\ I don't care if it's horrible, I hate people that are full of shit like this -_- I'm sure she's really fine and, like so many others, just trying to get money easily.. stupid crap.

I'm glad you're not practicing law or able to make such judgements then :|

 

[Acutie]

"you're old, no one cares if you die, shut up" Would be my legal verdict :\ I don't care if it's horrible, I hate people that are full of shit like this -_- I'm sure she's really fine and, like so many others, just trying to get money easily.. stupid crap.

They have no business being out of the house.

 

[Stevedizzle]

Shit happens. My sister slipped in dog shit at the dog track and bruised her back, not to mention the embarassment. Case?

 

[bigbroon]

I live about 5 minutes from where this happened :O.

The funny thing is, Tesco released a statement a few days after it happened, and told what really happened: the previous customer looking at the offending objects displaced a pineapple in the pile, thus disturbing the balance of the fruit stack and causing the pineapple to fall on this idiot's head.

Brings a new meaning to "were you dropped on your head at birth?" No, but something was dropped on my head in the supermarket ; ;

 

[Chasym]

first off, how tall is this lady to get hit by a pineapple, and how high do they stack them!? i work in a department store and i run the produce section, we have nothing set up in a fashion that would be high enough to fall on someones head. Our pineapple are layed out on a table that is slanted at an angle, if one rolled off somehow it would only hit the persons thigh. But we dont stack them, they are laid out on their side all around the outer edge of the table, with all the middle sections filled in with other tropical fruits.

Im sure not all stores do it the same, but stacking pine apple above head height is confusing for me.