Comments on: U.K.: Xmas tree “designed according to principles of health and safety” https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:18:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Poole townspeople to get a real Christmas tree https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80433 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:18:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80433 […] though purportedly superior on health and safety grounds, was unpopular and got vandalized. [UPI, earlier; h/t reader VMS in […]

]]> By: VMS https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80428 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:11:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80428 http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/08/City-replaces-22800-fake-tree-with-real/UPI-94461260313851/

]]> By: Robert https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80296 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:25:00 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80296 Are you *sure* the authors of this article aren’t pulling your leg? In any event, if people are being injured by Chr-stmas trees, it’s almost certainly G-d’s will, and we shouldn’t intervene.

]]> By: bfs https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80271 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:35:52 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80271 To me, it looks like a Minuteman II MIRV reentry vehicle. Warmongering when we celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace! Also, I don’t believe in fairies — in fact belief in them is contrary to my religion. So what’s with those offensive lights?

]]> By: Bob Lipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80066 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:00:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80066 Dear RXC,

please provide a link.

Bob

]]> By: Dwight Brown https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80052 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:43:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80052 “The most amusing ones involved the use of this device in the living room, around the xmas tree. ”

Dear rxc:

Please, please, please tell me you’re making this up.

I find the alternative too terrible to contemplate.

]]> By: rxc https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80044 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:07:24 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80044 The best example I can think of where a christmas tree inflicted harm was a video I saw a while ago about people using their turkey fryer for the first time. The most amusing ones involved the use of this device in the living room, around the xmas tree. I think there were several cases of hot oil splashing out of the pot onto the tree/floor/presents, and catching fire. In the excitement, several people try to put out the tree, and it of course falls over on them and the pot of hot oil, making the situation MUCH more amusing. And thru it all, the camera-person continues to roll the film…

]]> By: ps https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80039 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:02:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80039 Actually this seasonal holiday decoration is, in itself dangerous. Poole town council will, next year, simply paint a tree on a wall using lead-free paint of a colour not likely to cause offence to any minority group. The council is considering grey as appropriate but is in consultation with a number of senior citizen groups, just in case.

]]> By: gitarcarver https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80038 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:10:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80038 The article does not specify how the trees inflict these injuries.

You obviously have not seen The Wizard of Oz of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

Trees can be very mean.

]]> By: Bob Lipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/12/u-k-xmas-tree-designed-according-to-principles-of-health-and-safety/comment-page-1/#comment-80036 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:58:45 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=14961#comment-80036 Fascinated by the article, I noticed on the latest rereading this one particular sentence:

In 2002, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 1,000 people needed hospital treatment for injuries inflicted by trees.

The article does not specify how the trees inflict these injuries. Perhaps they lay in wait in the basement and come up to your bedroom at night and use cutlery from your kitchen on you.

Bob

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