Whose fault is it? (Details )

Your toe. Your walking method. Your house and furniture. Your decision to answer the telephone. Your fault.

Yep, not at all the fault of the caller. Why don’t you have the phone in a convenient danger free place?

And, it is your choice to go answer it.

Your own fault. How did he know you weren’t wearing shoes?

Totally your own fault.

Clumsy oaf! It’s your fault.

Intention is the key. The caller had no intention toward injuring the walker. The walker, on the other hand, has responsibility over their own actions when left to their own devices, otherwise they are the definition of incompetent.

There is no fault, considering it’s hypothetical anyway, just a random domestic accident.

@elbanditoroso . I never stated the sex of the caller. You assume that it was a ‘he.’ Just saying.

Others. But the person who broke the toe was simply navigating their surroundings in a response to an alert. If the person calling, didn’t call, the injury wouldn’t have occurred….

The caller ,inadvertently, sets up a chain reaction leading to injury of the person they were calling.

Again. This is hypothetical. This was a story I heard about the other day. And I wondered. Well, whose ‘fault ’ was the injury. Neither blamed the other.

But it wouldn’t have happened without the caller…

@MrGrimm888 Your argument is specious.

Let’s change two aspects of your scenario: you are driving a car when the call comes in, and while reaching for the phone you plow into a bus.

I don’t think you would get far with your insurance company staying it was the caller’s fault. And filing a lawsuit to that effect would have most people assign costs to you for being annoying and not taking responsibility.

If I stop at the grocery store on my way to work, and my cashier is slow, and after I leave I hit a deer that runs out into the road, one could say that I wouldn’t be on that particular road at the particular time when the deer ran out if my cashier had been faster, but the car accident is in no way the cashier’s fault. Sure maybe it wouldn’t have happened if they had acted differently, but you can’t hold people responsible for things that are so far-removed from the consequences. There’s no way for the cashier, or the caller, to know that something bad will happen if they move slowly or call.

There is no “fault” to be assigned. A random sequence of events strung together resulted in an outcome.

As @ucme stated, it was an accident. No one is to blame.

Darn planets’ fault!

This read like a shit deleted scene from Final Destination ;-}

“Blame is for God & small children”
Not my words, Dustin Hoffman said that in Papillon…

Well, some people were blaming Obama for sunspot activity . . .

Seriously?

Your house, your obstructive furniture placement or mess on the floor, your failure to pay attention when you got up or while walking, your choice to not have your phone near you and to go retrieve it to answer it…

Ergo

Your fault.

Furthermore the caller can not see your location, position or surroundings when placing the call.

Just wanted to say, some are taking this question WAY too seriously. It was meant to be a discussion about coincidence. Not people calling me an idiot. Remember, this didn’t even happen to ME. Read the thread.

Thanks for the contributions though :)

Well, in that case, I blame Obama. ;-)

@MrGrimm888 Well, if ”...this didn’t even happen to ME” then it certainly was your fault!

:)

Whatever it is.

It’s The State’s fault.

I think I’ve been swayed into the ‘it’s Obama’s fault camp here.~

Of course it’s Obama’s fault.

If you have to walk to your phone, it’s because you don’t have it in your pocket. Probably not a smartphone, then. Why can’t you afford a smartphone? Obama didn’t get you a job.

And why do you need to place blame? Because somebody’s insurance has to cover it. No way are you going to accept responsibility for your own stupidity and clumsiness, much less pay for it. But you do have health insurance because Obamacare has made it affordable. So you can blame him for that.

“Affordable” as in someone else is paying for it.

I don’t think it’s anyone’s fault. It’s called an accident, an unfortunate incident.