Last Saturday a student by the name of Samuel Koch had an accident in one of Germany’s most popular TV shows and got paralyzed as a result. What do you make of this? Should the TV channel owners or program operators be sued? Who do you think is responsible for the young man’s disability? Here is a run down of the accident: youtube.com/watch?v=hG7lpP__hZQ[YSaerTTEW443543]
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Sue? I think - only if there is a problem with the insurance Torsten - The TV company will be insured and they should pay him compensation as an employee(if he is registered as a member of equity) through their Employers liability or if he is not registered then as a member of the public through the TV companies Public Liability insurance… If the insurance company deny full liability due to lack of care etc and only pay out say 50% of what the claim should be - The TV company can then be sued for the other 50%
As English news item
youtube.com/watch?v=MCyIZMILPlE
Hi Jamie, I’m not so much interested in the question who should pay Samuel Koch any material compensation for his injuries and being disabled. What I’d like to know is your opinion on the question if we as a society have become so hungry for sensations and accidents that people like Samuel Koch are willing to risk their lives in order to keep us happy and entertained. I’m sure that a show like this would never be gain any popularity in a country like Ghana or Albania.
I wonder what’s next. Maybe we are going to enjoy how somebody gets killed while we are having a beer in front of our tellies?[YSaerTTEW443543]
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Reminds me of something then I remembered this-
the Late, Late Breakfast Show in UK
A teatime show hosted by Edmonds from 1982–1986, The Late, Late breakfast show featured members of the public performing stunts as well as Edmonds interviewing music acts. The show ended on the 15 November 1986, after a member of the public, the Late Michael Lush, was rehearsing a bungee jump and plunged 120 ft to his death when his rope came loose. Noel Edmonds quit the show immediately after, however returned to Saturday night TV with his ‘Saturday Roadshow’, two years later.
My opinion? I hardly watch TV anymore Torsten - When I go round to my Sisters house and she is watching X Factor or something She normally pauses the TV before talking to me - which normally means I just go back out the door again. 
TV is almost total mind control now… Its nearly all “Reality” TV now anyway(even though its nothing like reality)
It seemed bizarre when someone shouts for the Doctor straight away?
But obviously this guy has been doing the stunt 100’s of times without a problem
in that context it doesn’t seem that strange. But most of the people watching would have as readily watched some dumb blonde wanna be in a cage with spiders…
Is the indignity of the spiders any better or worse than the “danger” element?
Are they both not wrong?
Or is it the people watching who are wrong?
I think the moral aspect of this is central to most of whats wrong with not just TV…
I know almost nothing about the show but…
I think that the producers of this reckless show and Samuel Koch are all at fault.
The producers of the show for making the whole thing possible and Samuel Koch for being silly enough to go through with such an ‘‘act of bravery’’. He must have been aware of the tragic consequences he was risking by trying an extreme thing like that.
Part of the blame lies with the people watching the show – we all know that if there is no demand, there is no offer.
It certainly looks like we are heading in that direction, doesn’t it?
I almost forgot to answer your other question here: Yeah, why not, sue!