Off Topic Chatter 2016

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st1

Good point - EXCEPT that, even if all the top front edge of the garage was totally rotten, anyone trying to climb over it and something then it gave way then the bugger would either manage to crawl over on the roof itself (which would probably support him) and probably be OK, or fall back to the ground outside, but not actually into it. Thus very little actual damage to property or contents that is actually attributable to the "miscreant" and so not worth claiming for on the insurance (NCB and so on).

Ok, ok. Just trying the half-full hat on for a minute
I retreat to being envious of you having a) time to fix things, and b) outside temperatures that allows stuff to cure. Here we're in normal november working mode, and at about 4-5 degrees, meaning I won't get the last bits of my (non-pressure-treated) woodwork painted or protected for the winter... Ah well.

 

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There is an other cost.When the Bugger gets his Parasite compensation lawyer involved claiming a million pounds compensation for the scratches that he got falling of the roof off your garage.

Not if he didn't survive the fall...

 

[skomedal]

Not if he didn't survive the fall...

Then liabilty claim jumps in for bereaved

 

[jeallen01]

When I have finished the work (soon, I really hope, because the "cold" weather will come very soon if the forecasts are correct), any bugger who tries that one on should have noticed beforehand that because there are now, and soon be more, notices on the fence and garage about the spikey anti-climb stuff! So, if they didn't do that then they should not have anything on which they can try to "claim" (FWIW, the very close houses at that end have security lights fitted, so that should have "deterred" them even before they got to the rear end of my garden). "Sh1t happens" but I try to avoid it where possible.

 

[Lazarus]

They do not, as an septuagenarian butcher once said, like it up 'em!

 

[jeallen01]

Claims ? Try it! WTF were you, or your relative, trying to do if not to do something illegal and "naughty" to me and mine that got you into the situation where you got hurt/killed(! - sort-of ,hopefully)! F-off!

 

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Then liabilty claim jumps in for bereaved

Not if you can't find him...

We all need a concrete satellite base like @RimaNTSS in the back-yard, don't we?

Only problem is, we'll end up with multiple bases for large sat dishes...
(wait, did I say "problem" just then?)

 

[jeallen01]

And I haven't even yet got to the cctv (another thread) that might be installed

 

[skomedal]

Claims ? Try it! WTF were you, or your relative, trying to do if not to do something illegal and "naughty" to me and mine that got you into the situation where you got hurt/killed(! - sort-of ,hopefully)! F-off!

No need for the P@ddy mood

Reality in real life uk claims lawyers

 

[jeallen01]

Ain't got space for RimaNTSS's concrete dish bases - hardly even enough for the dishes I have (and, even then, I regularly bash my head on the LNBs or support arms as I slide past!).

 

[Lazarus]

There are indeed precedents of burgulars falling through flat rooves and then successfully claiming damages.

 

[jeallen01]

skomedal

Even those lawyers will have a hard time if I have done everything "reasonably possible" to warn their "clients" not to trespass on our property.

OTOH, maybe I should now install an alarm system which emits a very loud/brilliant warning to prospective intruders about the possible consequences of going any further. That would cost a bit, but possible - but what the neighbours would then say if it should go off every time a cat, of which there a lot around here, gets into the monitored zone. Probably "quite a lot" - especially as at least one of them has to use the rear Private access road to go out to visit his elderly mother in the early hours of the morning!

Where could this all end - "intelligently" controlled machine guns?

 

[jeallen01]

Thought this part of the thread might "descend" into farce (even I maybe did that), but hoped it would not - but congrats for trying!

 

[Lazarus]

Will impaled cats interest the RSPCA?

 

[archive10]

Thought this part of the thread might "descend" into farce (even I maybe did that), but hoped it would not - but congrats for trying!

Surely, this is the off-topic thread, no?

 

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Will impaled cats interest the RSPCA?

Always would. But not if they impaled themselves onto random bits sticking out.
Would be too much of a problem for industrial estates and prisons - they have plenty of climbing deterrents...

 

[jeallen01]

Lazarus/st1

At least our 2 cats are too lazy ("intelligent"????? - one is ESN by feline standards, but he is very a very lovable and old animal at 18 yrs and counting, and even he goes under the fence door) to even try to climb/jump OVER the fence/garage - they just crawl through the 4" high space under the door in the fence! Expect that the other cats around here are probably at least as "intelligent" - or else they just can't be bothered and find other ways to get around the area!

 

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