• Europeans may be required soon to purchase insurance for their sit-on lawnmowers
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[quote]Gardeners who maintain their lawn with a sit-on lawnmower could soon face paying £100 a year for motor insurance under regulations being considered in Europe. Patrick McLoughlin, the Transport Secretary, has been told that all owners of ride-on mowers may be forced to pay for the cover, even if the vehicle never leaves their garden. The issue stems from a European legal case involving a Slovenian man who was hurt after a ladder on which he was standing was hit by the trailer of a reversing tractor. Motor insurers refused to cover the claim because it took place on private property. The European Court of Justice, based in Luxembourg, is due to rule on the case next month but Mr McLoughlin had indicated he would fight any such change.[/quote] [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11008809/Gardeners-with-sit-on-lawnmowers-face-buying-motor-insurance.html[/url]
Wouldn't the home owners insurance cover accidents on private property? I don't see why you would possibly need a damn insurance for ride mowers.
Anyone got links to the presumably tens of hundreds of other cases of tractor lawnmowers doing untold damage to life and property that's prompting this frankly ludicrous tax on what is essentially a household appliance?
Stupid
Insurance companies being cheats and assholes again, nothing new.
Oh, it's british news whining about the EU. Show me something new.
EU being subject to lobbying? Naaaah can't happen right.
[QUOTE=ionuttzu;45581116]Oh, it's british news whining about the EU. Show me something new.[/QUOTE] I can't tell if you love or hate the EU from the way you post
It's likely that only a really small percentage have a ride on lawn mower, most of those probably using it for work and therefore covered in some way. What about mobility scooters? Some people need them to get about but I'm fed up of seeing a fat turd with a cigarette in his mouth gliding along a pavement into crowds of people at 8mph.
insurance is a gigantic scam.
[QUOTE=Memobot;45581586]It's likely that only a really small percentage have a ride on lawn mower, most of those probably using it for work and therefore covered in some way. What about mobility scooters? Some people need them to get about but I'm fed up of seeing a fat turd with a cigarette in his mouth gliding along a pavement into crowds of people at 8mph.[/QUOTE]I have this mental image of a fat Japanese guy in a flight jacket, diaper, and a bandana crashing his Zero-themed scooter into a bunch of people for some odd fucking reason. (probably all the drugs)
I don't really understand the point of this, is it to make more money for insurance companies or is it actually for something good?
[QUOTE=Memobot;45581586]It's likely that only a really small percentage have a ride on lawn mower, most of those probably using it for work and therefore covered in some way. What about mobility scooters? Some people need them to get about but I'm fed up of seeing a fat turd with a cigarette in his mouth gliding along a pavement into crowds of people at 8mph.[/QUOTE] There's an alcoholic in my town who is and does exactly that, he's been arrested before for driving it while drunk, and once for breaking someone's leg because he just drives along the pavement at full speed and expects everyone to get out of the way.
For fucks sake the EU is stupid. Literally the definition of bubble wrap.
in the year two thousand and fourteen of this era, there is pitty to be had for those who still don't use brushcutters for all their garden endeavours.
I don't know why people bother reporting on shit which hasn't even made it into law yet. All it does is enable people to have their daily fit of rage over precisely nothing.
Be even more sceptical considering this was first reported by the Daily Mail with the wonderful headline "Now Brussels threatens to slap car insurance on your lawnmower" sounds like clickbait yet?
Eh, it actually makes a bit of sense, at least here where I live, only city workers use those types of lawnmowers, in order to keep some parts of the city in proper order. No individual uses those, so it's more like some sort of workplace insurance for when you fuck up with the lawnmower. I'm pretty sure there's already an insurance that's supposed to take care of that, though, so eh... I'm not sure about that, I'm not an insurance expert or anything.
[QUOTE=orcywoo6;45583440]For fucks sake the EU is stupid. Literally the definition of bubble wrap.[/QUOTE] There are a few cases like this, but overall the EU is [u]extremely[/u] good for consumer rights. I can't wait to watch people vote against staying in the EU because of this.
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