'Snow Good For Ambulance Chasers

[JimmyMac]

So now in the UK it is NOT adviseable to clear snow from the front of your house anymore.
Have you ever heard of anything so ridiculous ?


Healthy and safety experts warn: don't clear icy pavements, you could get sued - Telegraph


I'm turning into Victor Meldrew fast !

 

[Dalton Veitch]

Alas, even Australia, like the UK, is following the litigous USA's example, where someone is responsible for everything bad that happens, and that someone can be sued. So be apathetic, don't do anything, don't stop to help anyone or anywhere, and you can't get sued. Hardly a good recipe for social interaction and surviving on an overcrowded planet.
Actually, I would have thought clearing and spreading grit could only be taken as a positive action. How could you be sued? Not enough grit, or something?

 

[David Sturch]

Jimmy,

That's funny. I know you lived here for a while and it's the exact opposite. If you don't clear, you are held responsible. If you can't do it yourself the City will do it for you.

Dave

 

[JimmyMac]

Dave,
In the tenements of Glasgow where I come from it was expected that every neighbour took turns to wash and disinfect stairs and clean the landing windows every week. We were all working class, had nothing worth stealing and respected each other and the meager accomodation where we lived. These were all good people.

The following in my opinion is more typical of the commuter in the south of England where I live for work.
Last week my wife cleared the all the snow and packed ice from the front of our house and a steep hilly road to gain egress from the village where we have a home.
Our neighbours had all parked their cars up the hill outside the village.
But when they saw the area clear in front of our house my four so-called 'neighbours' all moved their cars, one-by-one, into the road blocking our drive and egress whilst their side of the close is still snowbound.

I would not give them the wind out of my arse to cool their porridge.

Maybe Angie and I should move back to Mississauga.

 

[RichardH]

Last week my wife cleared the all the snow and packed ice from the front of our house and a steep hilly road to gain egress from the village where we have a home.
Our neighbours had all parked their cars up the hill outside the village.
But when they saw the area clear in front of our house my four so-called 'neighbours' all moved their cars, one-by-one, into the road blocking our drive and egress whilst their side of the close is still snowbound.

Have you explained that you are not best pleased with their action?
Or have you just bought an old Landrover and "moved" them out of the way?

 

[JimmyMac]

Richard,
Here's the punchline.
Yesterday one of them asked where I was going and I said that I was walking two miles to pick up my wife from the Winchester bus-stop and the stupid bastar* offered me a lift.
Shall we say that's when the Scot's timbre of my language come to the fore.

 

[JimmyMac]

I have a plan.
So what is the maximum decibel level possible with a set of racing exhausts ?

 

[David Sturch]

Jimmy,

Jimmy when everyone gets home from work here they shovel their driveways. Where you are when they get home from work they go to the PUB.
I've never seen so much disarray in Europe with rail transit and roads over a bit of snow and cold weather.
I was in Port Perry (Lake Scugog) yesterday. The traffic was awful, all these guys pulling sleds, the lake was busy with ice fishermen and sleders. It warmed up to -12C. It was nice and sunny though. I will have to send you over a snow blower. At 20 quid a driveway your wife would make a killing.
Dave

 

[JimmyMac]

Dave,
I wish that they went to work over here.
When the snow started, most of them got up in the middle of the night to vacate, looked out of the window and switched off their alarm clocks.