And not in a good way, either. Sounds like the judge wasn't amused by their cheatin' lame-ass "defense".
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][h3]Judge tells RyanAir to cut the crap [/h3] RyanAir -- the discount Irish airline -- lost a reporter's prescription shades, and refused to compensate him for them, citing abusive fine-print clauses on their tickets and other legal mumbo-jumbo. The reporter took them to a UK small claims court and they fought it (spending far more than they would have had to to settle his £100 claim) and then, when the judge ruled against them, argued that they needed extra time to raise the £100! (Ryanair's present valuation is £4.2 billion).
[br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"][span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"](So, their company is worth over 4 BILLION dollars, yet they need more time to come up with £100!?? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....and still lawyers [/span][span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"]wonder why people hate them so much.[/span] [span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"]-tb)[/span]
From the link:
[blockquote]I reported the loss the next morning, via expensive phone calls (Ryanair's number is a premium-rate line) and then faxes. Ryanair refused to consider my claim, aiming a double-barrelled shotgun at me. Bang: I had not filled in a Property Irregularity Report at Stansted, detailing my loss. Bang: I should not have packed "valuable" spectacles in my checked baggage... The judge did, however, quite like my rhetorical rejection of Ryanair's valuables argument. Where, I wanted to know, did the lawyers pack their no-doubt valuable suits, if not in checked-in luggage? The judge upped the ante. What about the value of an Armani suit packed in a suitcase? In any case, said the spectacle-wearing Solomon, loads of people pack a pair of spare specs in their checked-in luggage as a matter of course. What's more, there was no mention of spectacles among the "valuable" items excluded from compensation in the Ryanair bumf. [/p][/blockquote] [a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2155143,00.html"]Link[/a]
