A young woman was sentenced yesterday for… being a grabby, greedy, lying, cheating, stealing compensation-whore. She claimed ‘whiplash’ after a car accident, debilitating, painful, agonising, exercise-preventing, immobilising… blah, blah, blah. And the next week posted online how she’d completed a 5k Obstacle race. Then a week later climbed the Sydney Harbour bridge, also on Facebook. She should have gone to prison for at least life just for being such a stupid moron. Who is so obsessed with her online presence and image that she holds herself in contempt of court to sustain it.

And yet she was given a suspended sentence (plus a shitload of very expensive fines and costs), which is probably fair. Because I don’t think people like her are the main problem in such instances.

I get at least 2 or 3 phone calls a month telling me that “we have it on file that you suffered an injury in a car accident but didn’t make a claim, is that right?” That may look like a question but its actually a statement. My stock reply is always “YESSSS!!! Where was it, because I’ve forgotten. Remind me?” But the statement they’re saying is: if you had an accident we can both make money out of this!!! We just rip-off the insurers and they’ve got LOADS’A CASH, won’t even miss it. We just ‘massage’ the level of injury, make it last just a little bit longer and hey presto, we get 10 grand each. We do the work, all you have to do is perjure yourself in court, lie and cheat and we’re all quids in. What could possibly go wrong???

String up the ambulance chasers.

Because I’m too busy getting ready for the World Cup to worry about insurance claims. They didn’t make Qatar the most amazing event venue the world has ever seen by worrying about insurance claims, did they??? Mainly because of the 5,000-odd workers who died during the building of the stadia, none were insured. And when you’re the richest country in the world, employing modern-day slaves, you don’t in-SHURE them, you just buy more. At least it will be the ‘greenest, most carbon-zero event of all time’, so we were assured. And it bloody will be. Other than all the carbon used in its construction. Which apparently was MASSSSIVE. But other than that… and the alcohol issues… the gay thing… human rights concerns… 40 degrees in the shade… its gonna be BRILLIANT!!!!

Happy Friday

A xxxx