Photog assaulted by Brit cops gets 30,000pounds

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:45:14 -0500, Alan Browne
wrote:

>On 10-12-08 18:56 , tony cooper wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:07:37 -0500, Alan Browne
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10-12-08 14:52 , tony cooper wrote:
>>>
>>>> Something that eroded the photographer's
>>>> bargaining position.
>>>
>>> Yes, being in a country that does not have a record of outlandishly high
>>> awards for personal damages is a start.
>>>
>>> Also it was a settlement.
>>
>> Didn't I point that out? Specifically?
>
>Not in the context of what I said about it being a country (the UK)
>where settlements, whether in court or to avoid court are generally much
>less generous than in the US.

You had not yet provided that context. On December 7, I wrote:

>What makes you think so? It was an out-of-court settlement. In a
>settlement, both parties agree on the figure. Obviously, Hoffman felt
>that 30,000 quid was sufficient compensation.

Your reply, setting the context, was on December 8.

For some reason, your post attributes my remarks to
10-12-08. How you managed that baffles me.

>
>> Snipping is good thing, but snipping context that directly bears on
>> the reply is not.
>
>Neither the fact nor the intention as explained above.
>


--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember tony cooper
saying something like:

>Newspaper reports often don't give all the pertinent information. The
>settlement amount seems low for the damage, so there is probably
>something we've not been told. Some culpability on the part of the
>photographer, perhaps. Something that eroded the photographer's
>bargaining position.

He had the nerve to be taking pics of the pigs?
And I use the term 'pigs' in its most perjorative sense.