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The European Union is considering requiring those who mow their lawns with a riding lawnmower to have automobile insurance, even if the lawnmower never leaves their property. A Slovenian man was injured after the ladder he was standing on was hit by a trailer attached to a tractor that was backing up. That case is currently in the European court system, but regulators say it shows the need for compulsory insurance even on vehicles that aren't operated on the roads.
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Most awesome hit and run image today.
Probably in the top 10 all time.
Is there alt text?
No, no Alt-text. Worst Brickbat Image Evar!
Proposed: "Niki Lauda Lawn-mowing Service"
Or is it too soon?
Gardeners who maintain their lawn with a sit-on lawnmower could soon face paying ?100 a year for motor insurance
Next up: "EU to ban so-called 'squat-on' mowers"
"fahrengrasbettgleicherh?hemaschine"
Uhm.... don't they have homeowner's insurance in the EU?
Yes. Insurance companies want more money.
Sounds like a rent seeker owns an ins....
Oh, hello there, Mr. Buffett! Happy to see you!
Everyone wants more money.
It's like a tax.
A guy standing on a ladder got hit by a trailer attached to a tractor, so therefore lawnmowers need insurance?
Certainly! Why the confusion??
/EUcrats
I'm just glad they're not banning ladders...
The personal liability portion of a homeowner's or renter's policy should take care of it as long as it's not licensed for road use.
I believe "riding lawnmower" and "garden tractor" are interchangeable for the context of this legislative attempt.
(The real problem, as Cyto points out above, is that either homeowner's or contractor's insurance should already cover any such liability.)
Good news.
In our coming war with the robots we have an unexpected ally.
Sadly they are totally ineffective.
http://vimeo.com/101165012
OM NOM NOM
Yeah, but when we put the frickin' laser on the frickin' sharks, we'll be back to parity.
What moral hazards could possibly be created out of having an excessively insured market? A man on ladder in Slovenia....this caused regulators to conclude... We could only hope the man on the ladder was a regulator.
So we're just posting brickbats willy-nilly now? Is there no discipline left at Hit & Run?
It's sad, yesterday was late, so today was so early it fell on yesterday!
"Left"? There was some in the past?
Off Topic:Is the redhead in the black undies not the most "leave your wife and sell your kids" hot model of the last year?
You'd think a hundred years on, Europeans would be think twice before making some small incident in the Balkans into a continent wide mistake in August but no...
+1 Sarajevo street
Hilarious snippet in the article about Limey OSHA investigating the Queen's personal estate. The monarchy is little more than being Gabby Giffords dressed in ermine these days.
What ever nonsense Europeans do it isn't long before Americans have to do it too. Retarded monkeys see retarded monkeys do.
I thought medical care was free in Europe? Why would you need to insure against this?
but regulators say it shows the need for compulsory insurance even on vehicles that aren't operated on the roads.
Naturally...
. A Slovenian man was injured after the ladder he was standing on was hit by a trailer attached to a tractor that was backing up. politician was lobbied by insurance companies. That case is currently in the European court system, but regulators say it shows the need for compulsory insurance even on vehicles that aren't operated on the roads.
Aren't a lot if those old castles and shit in Europe haunted? Maybe the ghost lobby is just trying to keep George Jones out.
I'm no actuary, but if you did have to have a separate policy for a riding mower (or a rider on an existing homeowner or auto policy), I can't imagine it would be more than about seven or eight cents a year. I mean really, what's the statistical likelihood of being involved in a riding-mower accident, at least one that would necessitate filing an insurance claim?
Is it wrong that I'm surprised Slovenians have riding lawn mowers?
/racist
Is it wrong that I'm surprised Slovenians have riding lawn mowers?
Hell, I'm surprised those subhuman beasts even have grass to mow.
Ah, you must be Magyar!
Nobody Only Al Gore and his ilk will have power mowers of any kind once they use insurance requirements to strangle the power mower market because of climate change. Unless the mower manufacturers properly tithe.
Or Europeans in general. I thought they all lived in apartments with the remnants of royalty owning massive estates.
That's what they tell me at HuffPo anyway.
I am always impressed at just how much fertile farm land there is in Europe. Everything seems either cultivated or built up over there. There is no "wilderness." But their rural folks are about as fed up with the city people there as here. Democracy FTW, because the majority live in cities and get to set one size fits all policy for everyone.
Tony approves
Tony masturbates furiously over getting it set up over here.
Yeah, but when the insurance is mandated, you can make up all sorts of "overhead" costs to throw in and milk the involuntary consumer.
No one is going to write a stand alone policy for peanuts. Standalone policies would necessarily hit a minimum premium of at least 100 euros annually. Homeowner policies already have personal liability on the policy and if the guy's homeowner policy isn't paying then there's some circumstance for that.
There is no face, nor palm, large enough to express how I feel.
Wow is that a tar pot on fire?
http://www.AnonGalaxy.tk
For a robot/AI you sure have lousy object recognition code.
We should be more like Europe!
No one ever had an accident with a push mower?
STOP GIVING THEM AN EXCUSE!!!!
Look, its just common sense. No more licensing requirements until we have a licensing scheme that guarantees that the EUrocrats who want to pass licensing are trained in common sense principles of licensing.