Comments on: By reader acclaim: UK handyman props ladder against branch he’s sawing off

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:51:31 +0000

The company was fined for failing to fill in a Risk Assessment and provide training. What grips me is that the gardner who he was working with ” knows he ought to have tied the ladder to the trunk of the tree and not the branch to be cut” He also knew he should not have been doing that job as a specialist would have been hired. So what amount of risk assessing and training would have actually stopped this accident? What risk assessment or training would be needed if it was not their job anyway?

The Hotel is not being fined for failing to prevent an accident, but simply because there was an accident.

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:01:59 +0000

Strange. As a result of my educational experience, I would expect the tree branch to remain and the tree to fall over. That’s what I learned from the Roadrunner cartoons.

Obviously he needs to sue the estate of Chuck Jones.

Bob

By: Dennis N

Dennis N — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:47:27 +0000

Darwinian Stupidity ought to be a sovereign defense against liability.

“Your honor, he was too stupid to live.”

“Case dismissed.”

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:25:52 +0000

And to think that England was the home of Isaac Newton…

By: CarLitGuy

CarLitGuy — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:01:58 +0000

because it needs repeating (from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long by R. A. Heinlien):

“Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can’t help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.”

By: Richard Nieporent

Richard Nieporent — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:11:15 +0000

LOL! Bumper you beat me to it. I marvel at the fact that he has managed to survive to 64 years of age.

By: Bumper

Bumper — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:41:08 +0000

Just Darwin trying to do his job.