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    #62
    The Swordsman
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭The Swordsman


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    I clear footpath outside my property
    person slips on a small bit I missed
    Person sues me because that the kind of ****ty society we live in now
    I'm forced to pay 5-10k for trying to do a good deed.

    This is why people refuse to take responsibility for it!

    ?????

    Could someone not sue if you didn't clear and they slipped?


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    #63
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,493 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    The Swordsman wrote: »
    ?????

    Could someone not sue if you didn't clear and they slipped?

    no cos it was an "act of god / weather" and you have no responsibility to clear it. By clearing it you are taking responsibility for anyone who falls on that section you cleared.


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    #64
    The Swordsman
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭The Swordsman


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    no cos it was an "act of god / weather" and you have no responsibility to clear it. By clearing it you are taking responsibility for anyone who falls on that section you cleared.

    Fair enough, but could you imagine it going to court in the unlikely event of it happening?

    BTW, I presume you mean responsibility in the legal sense?


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    #65
    crocro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭crocro


    Misfeasance vs nonfeasance. In practice nobody is going to successfully sue an individual for 'missing a bit'.


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    #66
    Judgement Day
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    Anyway all this clear the snow from outside your own house is a load of nonsense - I live in the centre of town i.e. no garden - therefore no tools (shovel, yardbrush etc). Am I supposed to skate down to my local hardware and buy all the needed implements - NO it's the responsibility of the local authorities to keep the pavements safe! In our local paper this week, when the local authority couldn't keep our streets and pavements passable, it was mentioned that they have managed to salt away €650,000 towards a new Town Hall (est.cost €5.5 million) - badly needed I'm sure. :mad:


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    #67
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,493 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    In practice for business etc they'd claim off your insurance. As for non-business it unlikely to go further I'd say.

    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Anyway all this clear the snow from outside your own house is a load of nonsense - I live in the centre of town i.e. no garden - therefore no tools (shovel, yardbrush etc). Am I supposed to skate down to my local hardware and buy all the needed implements - NO it's the responsibility of the local authorities to keep the pavements safe! In our local paper this week, when the local authority couldn't keep our streets and pavements passable, it was mentioned that they have managed to salt away €650,000 towards a new Town Hall (est.cost €5.5 million) - badly needed I'm sure. :mad:

    I see what you did there. ;)


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    #68
    parsi
    Site Banned Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭parsi


    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Anyway all this clear the snow from outside your own house is a load of nonsense - I live in the centre of town i.e. no garden - therefore no tools (shovel, yardbrush etc). Am I supposed to skate down to my local hardware and buy all the needed implements - NO it's the responsibility of the local authorities to keep the pavements safe! In our local paper this week, when the local authority couldn't keep our streets and pavements passable, it was mentioned that they have managed to salt away €650,000 towards a new Town Hall (est.cost €5.5 million) - badly needed I'm sure. :mad:

    God be with the days when every corner shop was like HEctor Gray - full to the brim with useful items like shovels, brushes, iceskates, salt, pepper, seasalt, plough, harrow and tea.

    Now its paninis, guacamole and rooibos.


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    #69
    Judgement Day
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    Is that you Des? Happy New Year! :D


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    #70
    parsi
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    Is that you Des? Happy New Year! :D

    Many Happy Returns David ;)


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    #71
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I am not looking forward to what happens when it all starts thawing, alot of the drains and sewers are blocked or partialy blocked with ice and all of what is frozen atm will thaw and hit the drains in one go.


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    #72
    spongeman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 554 ✭✭✭spongeman


    Council will just ignore it, and wait until homes and businesses are flooded.


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    #73
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,493 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    its not that unusual for 3-4 cm of rain in 24 hours at any point during the year.

    There hasn't (yet) been that much snow. I don't forsee major widespread flooding issues tbh


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    #74
    bmaxi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭bmaxi


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    its not that unusual for 3-4 cm of rain in 24 hours at any point during the year.

    There hasn't (yet) been that much snow. I don't forsee major widespread flooding issues tbh

    30 cm snow = 2.5 cm rain, so even 60cm would not be a rare daily amount in rainfall terms.


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    #75
    DDigital
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭DDigital


    A justified update to the discussion on this forum earlier in the year.

    http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/mediazone/pressreleases/title-1895-en.html

    Apologies if its been posted already. Ive been away from boards.


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