{"id":16274,"date":"2012-04-20T16:21:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16274"},"modified":"2012-04-20T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T20:21:23","slug":"woman-injured-during-sex-gets-workers-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/woman-injured-during-sex-gets-workers-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Light fixture falls on woman during sex: she gets workers\u2019 compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The argument is: \u201csex is a normal activity in a motel room and should be covered, because the woman was on a work trip\u201d. No-one seems to be perturbed by the fact that taxpayers are not only paying for the woman to have a place to copulate but are also paying for the consequences of her going at it too vigorously.<\/p>\n<p>None of this would have happened if she had been wearing a hard-hat.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/story\/2012\/04\/20\/sex-compenation-australia.html?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The court said the woman, whose name hasn&#8217;t been released, is entitled to compensation for facial and psychological injuries suffered when a light fixture fell off the wall in her motel room in November 2007, and landed on the bed she was occupying at the time with a male friend.<\/p>\n<p>She suffered injuries to her nose, mouth and a tooth from the glass light hitting her face, the BBC reported. Her lawyer argued that sex is a normal activity in a motel room and should be covered, because the woman was on a work trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the applicant had been injured while playing a game of cards in her motel room, she would have been entitled to compensation,&#8221; Nicholas said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The argument is: \u201csex is a normal activity in a motel room and should be covered, because the woman was on a work trip\u201d. No-one seems to be perturbed by the fact that taxpayers are not only paying for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/woman-injured-during-sex-gets-workers-compensation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[2249,1643],"class_list":["post-16274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-too-weird-to-categorise","tag-sex","tag-workers-compensation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}