So your baby's life is worth £500?
So your baby's life is worth £500?
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Ace-T

Original Poster:

8,397 posts

284 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1542049,00.html

So they are potentially risking the life of their child for £500 in vouchers? These women do not deserve to have children.

Ace-T

Jaglover

46,737 posts

264 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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It's not Aprils fools day yet is it

besides I can think of worse places to go into labour-at least there you will have people to call an ambulance for you.

docevi1

10,430 posts

277 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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to be fair, if your water breaks at home or in a Harvey Nichols store it doesn't make that much difference, indeed it may be useful to be around people who could help you out (i.e. call for an ambulance etc).

Free advertising eh

EmmaP

11,758 posts

268 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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How sad.

Ace-T

Original Poster:

8,397 posts

284 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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It is not about the chance that you might be in that particular shop and you go into labour and there are people there to help, but deliberately going there to use your pregnancy to achieve financial gain.

And no doubt their children will be brought up to believe they can get something for nothing too.

Yet another reason never to have kids, they would have to interact with these parasites.

Ace-T

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rich-uk

1,431 posts

285 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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Balmoral Green

42,561 posts

277 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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The best bit is, it's not even true, it's urban myth, as the media and Harvey Nicholls have said.

Shame it wasnt Argos

Rob_F

4,153 posts

293 months

Saturday 26th March 2005
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Balmoral Green said:
The best bit is, it's not even true, it's urban myth, as the media and Harvey Nicholls have said.

Shame it wasnt Argos


Wouldn't be able to tell the pregnant ladies from the fat ones, and after someone decided to shit themselves whilst a collegue was serving them i'd be more likely to think they pissed themselves anyway and chase them out of the store with a mop.

Cheers,
Rob.

gh0st

4,693 posts

287 months

Sunday 27th March 2005
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This is just typical "gimme gimme gimme" britain

Even if it WAS true, i find it greedy that people would purposely lurk in the store until they gave birth!!!

Any excuse for something free. D