Since appearing on YouTube on 2 March 2007, a Donoghue v Stevenson-inspired parody of The Police’s ‘Message in a Bottle’ has delighted tens of thousands. But, having been buried under reams of inferior videos over the last seven years, this is probably the first many law students will have heard of ‘Snail in a Bottle’. Enjoy.
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Snail in a Bottle: lyrics
Just a ginger beer, made by good old Stevo
Another simple case, well, that’s what I believed, oh
But Donoghue brought a case to bear
Arguing he owed her a duty of care, oh!
He breached my neighbour principle
He breached my neighbour principle
He breached my neighbour principle
No one should ever get a
No one should ever get a
No one should ever get a
Snail in a bottle, yeah!
Snail in a bottle, yeah!
Ages have passed since I judged that case
It really defined my time on the bench
Sometimes I think that, for example
There’d be no case if the Plaintiff had been French!
Reasonably foreseeable
Reasonably foreseeable
No one should ever get a
No one should ever get a
No one should ever get a…
Negligence these days is the King of the Torts
Hundred billion cases clogging up the courts
Seems insurance now is way too dear
Hundred billion legal fees, thanks to ginger beer!
It’s not far-fetched or fanciful
It’s not far-fetched or fanciful
No one should ever get a
No one should ever get a
No one should ever get a
Snail in a bottle, yeah!
Snail in a bottle, yeah!
I founded modern negligence!
I founded modern negligence!
I founded modern negligence!
I founded modern negligence!