An Garda Síochána is the Irish police force. This happened at their training college. This is a true story.

The trainees were about to begin a class in restraint and physical intervention. The instructors had the trainees do a warm-up first which involved some running on the spot. One individual had failed to tie his shoelaces properly, he stepped on the one lace as he raised his other leg and fell over on his side. The instructors immediately attended to him, to see if he was injured and if he required first-aid. Besides some minor bruising, he was fine.

The trainee then proceeded to sue the police force, of which he was not yet a fully-fledged member but just a police student because apparently it was their fault that he was such a fucking moron that he had failed to properly tie his shoelaces and subsequently fallen over and suffered little or no injury.

The case went nowhere.

Another case where the Guards (as they are referred to) were sued involved a Crime Scene photographer. This young woman had graduated from college with a degree in forensics and/or criminology and after a vigorous recruitment and vetting procedure had secured a position with the CSI unit with the cops in Dublin. These jobs are very rare so she must have been very good. Six months into the job she had attended a murder scene, a gangland shooting in Dublin. From what I read it was gruesome, blood everywhere, but then what do you expect when the victim has been shot multiple times. Afterwards she went on sick leave and then sued the Guards for emotional and psychological distress, because she had to photograph a crime scene of a murder, which was her job, which was the career that she had pursued. How can you possibly sue your employer for having to do your actual fucking job ?