cedar cottage

pain and suffering for the fact that her kid went over the fence and was resuscitated by a resident and then spent 7 years in a nursing home under 24 hour care...till he died of pneumonia. There were 21 units in the complex and everyones lives were put on hold until the out of court settlement with the insurance company.

Vash the Stampede

Crikey. :scared:

cedar cottage

your telling me....The only positive thing in the who situation was when I could eventually sell, the prices in Melb were thru the roof..Suzette

cedar cottage

Get this as well,,,,I bought the unit 5 years after the incident, but due to the family not lodging a claim until the day before the statute of limitations (7 years) I had to wear it as I was the owner when the writ was issued and I would then have to sue the owner of the unit at the time.....more money to the solicitors...Any wonder people drink.....

The_Pom_From_Aus

Do you know the number of accidents there are involving kids in swimming pools, thats the reason for the fencing, as for you wanting to remove the fence, you must have little intelligence or no common sense at all. you cabbage.

andrew63

Of course I fully support fences around pools but I find it incredible that there are no laws governing fences around public waterways, canals, rivers, public swimming areas at coastal resorts etc.
Drowning incidents in these are far higher than those at domestic pools

Andrew

northernbird

harsh mate, harsh

hevs

Perhaps cos the pools are fenced

I also think that when you are out for the day by the river you are watching your kids (hopefully!) However if they wonder there unsupervised then theres obviously gonna be problems. I think its massively impractical to begin fencing in rivers etc though isn't it....

FWIT our pool fence is ugly as but we are in the process of putting beds and plants around it and its begining to look much better

Scossie

Couldn't agree more Andrew!

We did a pool recently where our pool stopped 3 meters from a sloping bank into a huge river! Our pool, (Quite rightly) had to be fenced off, but the property had no fence between the house and the river. Legally there doesn't have to be.

And how about this.....
Legally, if you just put plain water without chemicals in your domestic swimming pool. Then add just one fish, it is classed as an, "ornamental garden fish pond" and fencing laws don't apply!!!!

hevs

Wouldn't it go manky as though Scossie?

biggy

what pisses me off is....................we have a three storey hoose accross from us..........and the top floor balcony has a height of 900mm come om what the ****...............oh falling three stories and bouncin off a wall then onto concrete path u r only gona burst yer skull and then splat on the groung. but have a pool fence of 1100mm high with a gap of less than 100mm underneath and thats not good enough..................FFS who has seen a toddle with a heed less that 100mm in diameter..............its ****in stoopid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have a good fence around ur yard that should be enough.................FFS the ocean is un fenced....we need to get real here

biggy

here in QLD any recepticle in ur yard that can hold more than 300mm of water u need to fence.........lmao a fence roon me mop bucket....................silly

Mog

Our kids have been brought up with a swimming pool and are more than aware of the dangers, if someone uninvited gets into your garden then anything can happen after all you can drown in a bowl of water if the circumstances were right...anyway all the kids I know are probably more capable of climbing over a fence than an adult!!!......is cabbage an insult or are you just uneducated.

Mog

The Bloke

Fences on canals neseccarily won't stop anybody climbing over them and falling(or jumping) into the canal. A couple living on a canal estate on the Gold Coast a few years ago had a party on night. A friend of theirs who attended got totally plastered, climbed up onto top of fence and dived into canal, resulting him becoming a paraplegic. Guess what? He sued and won!

Katsmajics other half !!!

does that mean that you have to fence off any water butts?

Not the you get alot of water in Oz anyhow.