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Bride Drowns During 'Trash the Dress' Photo Shoot
Bride Drowns During 'Trash the Dress' Photo Shoot -- Dress Drags Her Under Water
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Seriously? Well this is something to keep in mind.
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Seriously? Well this is something to keep in mind.
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Phil
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Phil
This happened in Canada and I don't think the Canadians are as litigious as Americans. Here in America they would be suing the photographer, the park service, camera manufacturer, the dress maker you name it.
The bottom line here is it's a horrible tragedy. From reading the article it seems as though the bride wanted to participate and no one anticipated the strength of the current or the weight of the water soaked dress. In hind sight maybe one could claim negligence but it really sounds like a bunch of regular nice people not understanding nature.
Just very sad.........................................
That said, here in the US I have a million dollar liability policy.
Sam
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How terrible and some of the comments made by people on the news site are absurd! Totally agree with above poster.. Million dollar liability yea indeed, however if this happened I'm not sure I would be able to shoot again and have the same love for it.
as someone who can hardly stay afloat unless he's in a life jacket, it fascinates me that people manage to swim/dive in something as big as wedding dress. It is a terrible tragedy what happened to the bride.
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They're a lot of fun for both photographer and bride but you definitely need to be on your toes of taking her in the water or anything trip hazard wise. I've only had a few but I don't take the girls farther than ankle to knee height water.
The million dollar liability policy would never make up for something like this, and hopefully no one thought that I suggested it would. Personally I would be devastated beyond belief.
I mentioned it because this story does remind us to be extra careful when working with clients and that the unexpected can happen in an instant. An insurance policy can remedy a much lesser accident without losing the house.
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Agreed, most of the comments are completely beyond belief. How sad.
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NO ONE jumps on the litigation bandwagon as fast as Americans.
I saw mention of this on another site and the comments from shooters were typical of this mentality.
The greater majority could not seem to accept that accidents happen, it always had to be someone's fault ( Other than the bride who couldn't be sued for any mistake she may have made) and they should have to pay.
Of course everyone was out gunning for the shooter with some turds saying that the shooter was negligent for not having a trained lifeguard at the shoot. I spose if there was one and nature still got the better of the bride then the same morons would then clam the shooter was at fault for not having 2 lifeguards or a couple of diver and a rescue chopper hovering overhead the whole time or what ever other far fetched load of crap they could come up with.
It's clear that these sad people that want to sue will find fault in everything no matter how many precautions are taken.
Also makes me wonder if these people remotely follow their own advise how they ever get a thing done in life. They would be too busy stuffing around trying to cover all the unlikely scenarios to actually get the job done. I wonder if they would deem themselves to be at fault and due to pay compensation when something they did not forsee still went wrong?
I have to say, this mentality that people have that makes them comment on every little situation about being sued is as annoying as it is stupid. Do Americans really go round worrying about being sued for every single thing they do or is it just another moronic forum mentality that is always talked about but practical occourance bears no resemblance to the lip endless warnings and bleatings?
EXACTLY!!
Sometimes bad things happen when it's nobodys fault or they could not be expected to reasonable forsee every single unfortunate possibility.
Trying to screw money out of people when someone has died and lawyers concocting far fetched blame that was not reasonable to forsee or prevent is sickening and disrespects those that have been lost.
I have lost a Mother and a brother in accidents so I know bloody well that putting blame and making a drama for years out of it is not going to bring them back.
I was also paid compensation money for my mothers death because it happened at work.
There is no joy in receiving that money and knowing where it came from no matter what the amount. You buy something with it and it just serves to remind you of what you have lost. Unless you are a greedy, selfish mongeral that puts money before your loved ones and therefore shouldn't get any advantage from the situation, money will never be any sort of compensation for loosing someone.
HAha!
Ironic.
I have $10M liability policy.
That's standard here now on Oz. $5m is the minimum but when you work public venues, most want $10M. They won't even let you display your work in a shopping centre without a $10M policy.
One local council here a contractor mate was bidding on work for, wanted a $20M policy on his VEHICLE.
When he questioned it, the reasoning given was that he might crash his vehicle into a council building and cause it to need to be reconstructed.
He asked if this still applied given the fact he drove an ordinary station wagon as a work car rather than a locomotive or an aircraft carrier.
My mate also pointed out that the most expensive building the council owned was only constructed 2 years ago and a cost of $6m.
I think they have been reading too many forum comments from people in the US or watching too many of the brain dead US TV shows we get dumped on us!
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