Accidents Waiting to Happen
Being an educated stagemanager I have health and safety drummed into me. Nearly everywhere I look in Norway there is an accident waiting to happen – and yet it never does. I don’t get it – with all the wooden ladders still in use, all the city roofs without snow guards (for when the snow falls off onto the poor suckers underneath) or all the electrical leads just laying across city walk ways you’d think that Norway would be law-suit-heaven. But, nope. In fact, if a Norwegian does trip over a lead, gets pumbled by snow from walking too close to a building in winter or falls through a wooden ladder, they just get up and laugh about it. If you’re trigger happy enough to want to sue, the only law firm that would handle your case would be Your, Own & Fault Ltd.
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A popular Summer activity in Norway is kayaking. The coast of Norway is dotted with thousands of little islands making the perfect conditions for a smooth paddle.
Decorating Easter eggs is a big tradition in Norway.
Even though the males are called bulls and the females cows, the muskoxen are more closely related to sheep than cattle. Make no mistake, though – this is not your average cuddly ba-ba-blacksheep! A grown animal can be 2,5 m long and weigh up to 400 kgs, and their long curved horns mean business.
Autumn is Fårikål season in Norway.
You wouldn’t want to live in the UK then… here’s it’s gone to overkill. Health & Safety has centre stage in everyone’s life, and some things are not allowed – “just in case it might happen”.
Sadly people in the UK no longer seem prepared to be responsible for themselves, and everything is now “someone else’s fault”. Before long the word “accident” will be removed from the Oxford English Dictionary!!
I agree with Helga’s comments as it is the same story in the U.S.A. It is never your own fault anymore, regardless of how stupid the act might have been. It is always ‘someone else’s fault’. Just ask the lawyer, he’ll verify your contention. It is no wonder that our insurance rates keep climbing.