There’s quite a good reason insurance is so high these days.

A woman who claims she was injured going down a slippery slide at a prominent Brisbane private school is suing for compensation.

Fiona Ciranni, 36, is claiming almost $102,000 in compensation from John Paul College Ltd – Queensland’s largest private school – and A&L Hawkins, trading as Affordable Amusement Rides, due to injuries sustained while she accompanied her daughter on a “super slide” at the college on October 2, 2005.

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Mrs Cirani claimed she was thrown off the super slide “with significant velocity” and a “significant distance into the air”, before landing on her coccyx.   Brisbane Times

If things continue this way, Australia’s Funniest Home videos is going to go out of business.  A bit of research pulls seems to find that the slide should have looked a bit like this one.

Could hazard a guess at what the woman’s mass would have been for her to gain enough momentum to gain injury from the falling distance from a “significant velocity” however if that were the case we would have on the headlines “Woman told she was too fat to ride on fun slide”.