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Thread: No chainsaws after 5.00pm..victim fights for life

  1. 12th February 2010, 05:48 PM #11
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    A call was placed asking for assistance from Wicklow County Council staff, but under Health and Safety regulations, they aren't allowed to operate a chainsaw after 5 p.m.
    Personally if it was me that got the call... I'd say f*** the regulations... then I guess I've a different outlook on life

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  3. 12th February 2010, 05:49 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by cyberianpan View Post
    Personally if it was me that got the call... I'd say f*** the regulations... then I guess I've a different outlook on life

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    Not a different outlook on life, just a decent human being.
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  4. 12th February 2010, 05:50 PM #13
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    Quote Originally Posted by Supermanpolitician View Post
    OK I take it back, but my experience is whenever you get someone objecting to working, it usually has something to do with a union.
    I would like to think that if I was in the situation as described and had been trained to use a chainsaw before 5.00pm as it were as that I would have ignored the 5.00pm rule and used a bit of common sense! A life was at stake after all!
    I REALLY HOPE THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH UNIONS!
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  5. 12th February 2010, 05:56 PM #14
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    One wonders about the mentality of the individual worker who said "i'm not allowed" while a person lay trapped in a car.
    Hoping this story is a bit of glossed up fiction, if not, well let's hope he never has a accident after 5.
    But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
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  6. 12th February 2010, 06:05 PM #15
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    The report clearly mentions health and safety regulations restrictions - maybe one of our resident "legal eagles" could clarify this for us? It is ridiculous, though! There should at least be a proviso for exceptional cases.
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  7. 12th February 2010, 06:10 PM #16
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    Health and Safety Regulations consist of guidelines - not rules.
    Either the person saying this knew this and is lying - or did not know it and needs to be reeducated.
    I'd guess it's some form of work to rule.
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  8. 12th February 2010, 06:11 PM #17
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    Quote Originally Posted by FakeViking View Post
    I don't see a trade union bashing angle here, it's a management decision.
    Don't you understand, it's always the fault of a trade union or a PS worker or (best of all) a PS worker who's a member of a trade union. It was probably a unionised clerical officer who pushed the tree onto the car in the first place.
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  9. 12th February 2010, 06:12 PM #18
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    Quote Originally Posted by birthday View Post
    I would like to think that if I was in the situation as described and had been trained to use a chainsaw before 5.00pm as it were as that I would have ignored the 5.00pm rule and used a bit of common sense! A life was at stake after all!
    I REALLY HOPE THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH UNIONS!
    Well the trade Unions were happy to picket the hospice of the dying in Harolds cross.

    [SIZE="4"]I just hope this man in the crash sues Wicklow Co Co for attempted manslaughter[/SIZE]
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  10. 12th February 2010, 06:14 PM #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Field Marshal View Post
    Well the trade Unions were happy to picket the hospice of the dying in Harolds cross.

    [SIZE="4"]I just hope this man in the crash sues Wicklow Co Co for attempted manslaughter[/SIZE]
    You do know there is no offence of attempted manslaughter? Indeed there can't by definition be an offence of attempted manslaughter.
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  11. 12th February 2010, 06:23 PM #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baron von Biffo View Post
    You do know there is no offence of attempted manslaughter? Indeed there can't by definition be an offence of attempted manslaughter.
    The govt should make an exemption in this case and introduce one of legislation to punish Wicklow Co Co
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