You Gotta Be Kidding Me - I

You Gotta Be Kidding Me - I

The story: a worker sent to a remote island is kicked in the head during a bet at a bar. Now his employer must pay for his hip replacement surgery (for an injury suffered in the fall after being kicked in the head).

Why do they have to pay, you ask? Good question. Here's the abswer from the court in clearly unassailable logic:

Yahoo! News - Court OKs Disability Pay for Horseplay Injury

The appeals court agreed with the earlier ruling that the two-mile-long atoll is a "zone of special danger" because of its isolation and limited recreational opportunities.

"We agree that, under these circumstances, horseplay of the type that occurred here is a foreseeable incident of one's employment on the atoll," wrote Judge Barry Silverman.