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Well, you see all sorts of things while researching these personal injury pieces for a no win, no fee compensation firm, but one thing this week that really surprised me was the Shark Attack Wetsuit that popped up in the results while I looked into holiday accidents.
Yes, if you want to impress the other surfers on the beach with your astounding ability to survive serious holiday injury, you can do that with a custom-made wetsuit printed with bitemarks, flesh wounds and bloodstains.
I'm a little torn (no pun intended) on the issue; it's clearly a striking design, it's very convincing, and it's fun to have a trompe-l'oeil effect appearing in fashion, but is it perhaps a little inconsiderate towards those who do suffer personal injury while on holiday?
I suppose there's an argument for saying it's no worse than those arrows with a head-shaped bend in the middle that you can wear on holidays like Halloween, but, on the other hand, they're usually less true-to-life than the gory imagery on the wetsuit.
If you hunt for the wetsuit on the internet, it appears to have made it onto several blogs devoted to gadgets, geeky things and art, and the comments that the other kind of surfer have left seem to split down the same divide as I'm feeling - partly fascinated by the skill that's gone in to the design, partly worried about children getting a case of post-traumatic stress disorder to go with their sandcastles.
There's a range of designs available from the same artist, including one printed up to resemble muscular charts - the model online looks remarkably like the animated chap at the top of our whiplash compensation page, in fact. I suppose that one would make it easier to indicate where, precisely, a personal injury of the musculoskeletal variety had occurred - imagine, "Doctor, I've got a pain in my gastoniemus!" There's even one set up to look like wood, and I'd hate to think of the splinters.
Interestingly, it's not the worst personal injury costume I've seen; one Halloween outfit that did the rounds on the internet last year was a particularly inventive person who made an oversize t-shirt into an accident injury outfit by installing a small screen at the front and a webcam at the back so that you could see right through him, as if he'd recently been impaled on something.
That, however, troubled me less than the wetsuit, perhaps because it's gone so far past reality that it ceases to be quite so scary? A quick straw poll round my no win, no fee colleagues suggests that they agree with me about the wetsuit being a most unsettling image; it doesn't explain why, but it does indicate, at least, that my response isn't strange.
