"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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I never understand when this kind of topic comes up why people think
the law is "an ass" for providing that we should avoid putting
dangerous things in proximity to the public. We could all think of
plenty of ways in which a spiky fence might injure the person or
property of a perfectly innocent passer-by; and it's not much harder
to think of perfectly innocent reasons why one of us might need to
scramble over somebody else's boundary without permission.

Mike.

Go on then.

Others in the gang have mentioned a few genuine possibilities already;
but here goes:

My mother trips on a loose paving slab, grabs the nearest thing for
support, and a rusty iron spike goes through her hand.

Scary MIL, is she 9ft tall? Otherwise I fail to see how she'd put her hand
on top of a 6ft wall.


You're walking down the road in the teeth of a rainstorm, and your
expensive umbrella or trench-coat (I know you'd have nothing but the
best) catches on a spike and gets ripped.

Could happen on a low lying bush, tough luck.


I'm steering an uncertain course back from the boozer one night and
some part of my marinaded anatomy connects with the projections;
fortunately, I don't bleed to death, but it's touch and go when I get
septicaemia.

What, on the top of a 6ft wall? Must be a *very* uncertain course


I'm away on holiday, so the vicar can't ask me if it's ok to pop into
my garden to retrieve his hat, which has just been blown in there by
the wind.


Well he should, just because you are out doesnt (shouldnt?) give someone
the right to go onto your property. Next time he should hang on to his
baseball cap or better yet not wear one.

Etc, pretty well ad infinitum: these things do happen.

Mike.

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