Six million for boosted libido after accident
Six million is pretty good coin.
A devout Christian who said an accident at work boosted his libido and wrecked his marriage as he turned to prostitutes and pornography has been awarded nearly $6 million) in damages.
Stephen Tame, 29, from Suffolk in England, suffered severe head injuries in a fall, transforming him from a loyal newlywed into a “disinhibited” character who had two affairs.
He was in a coma for two months after falling from a gantry while working at a bicycle warehouse shortly after his marriage in January 2002. Doctors said it was a miracle he survived.
Awarding him £3.1 million($5.89 million) in compensation at London’s High Court on Tuesday, Judge Michael Harris said: “His life and the life of his young wife were shattered.”
With six million he can see many, many more prostitutes.
Gee, how could he have proved the causation of tort? I recall that in Britain, there are no jury trials for civil cases (maybe I remember wrong), so the judgment makes it more amazing!
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Head traumas have been associated with personality transformations, and so I guess that the judge must have referred to doctors who no doubt examined Tame’s brain damage. The most famous of such cases is that of Phineas Gage, a railway construction foreman in the 19th century. The page on “The damage to Gage makes you wonder how he survived. Although, personality-wise, you could say he didn’t.
http://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/gagepage/
Austin Powers.