A judge has thrown out a policeman’s claim for 14,337 euros in compensation after he slipped on wax left by a Semana Santa procession.

The policeman had been on duty and slipped on the trail of wax left by a procession that had gone by barely minutes before and broken his ankle – this, he must have thought, has got to be worth a payout from the very people who employ him; i.e., the City Hall.

However, the judge didn’t see it that way; using a free adaptation of his summing up, he reasoned: it’s Semana Santa; there are lots of processions; the majority use real candles that trail molten wax; everybody knows this and takes precautions; your job entails watching over the processions in the city; ergo, you know that there is wax and that you should watch your step.

The policeman claimed that he didn’t know that the street had wax along it and the judge simply didn’t believe him, for the above reason.

On top of this crystal clear reasoning, there is the fact that the streets frequented by Semana Santa processions have signposts warning pedestrians and drivers of the state of the surface during Easter.

(News: Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)