Hanging baskets, should they be banned?

gurramok

On the neighbouring street a short while back, I was walking along on the footpath minding my own business when 2 hanging baskets hanging from outside a house on a street(full of old style cottages) attacked me in the sense I banged my head of one and narrowly avoided the other.

Should there be rules as to the hanging of those things, like a health and safety audit or something? They are clearly not designed to not hurt the person of average height walking along the footpath :mad:

I could of been knocked out and needed hospital treatment from those flying stationary objects :mad:

TiGeR KiNgS

Your post reads like you got knocked down by a parked car,
and it was the cars fault.

44leto

It depends on what the basket has done.

im invisible

Hang them all i say

whatcartoget

Maybe you should look where your going!

Canard

So not only did you not see the first one, you nearly didnt see the second one?

Kevin Duffy

41, walking since childhood, 6'+, never in my life managed to bang my head on something as conspicuous as a basket of flowers swinging in mid-air. I don't think the hanging basket is the problem here.

FearDark

OP is a basket case.

Where To

Don't walk on pavements if you can't look where you're going!!

Immaculate Pasta

It sounds like it's all your fault OP to be honest :cool:

InTheTrees

Maybe it would be more humane to shoot them?

phoenix833

Threads like this shouldn't be hanging around AH.

gurramok

Patchy~ wrote: »

So not only did you not see the first one, you nearly didnt see the second one?

They were on either side of a door. Think cottage side on a street where the door opens onto the footpath, the things were quite large and protruded out to head height!!

charlemont

If hash is so dangerous that it must be banned then clearly hanging baskets should be banned too.

Leo Dowling

Ban umbrellas more like. I've had enough of four foot women nearly taking my eye out with them on narrow footpaths when it's barely even drizzling.

dark_shadow

What where they doing hanging around there in the first place? That's no place for them.

sgb

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

ban them

El Guapo!

Leo Dowling wrote: »

Ban umbrellas more like. I've had enough of four foot women nearly taking my eye out with them on narrow footpaths when it's barely even drizzling.

The umbrellas are fine.
Ban the midgets.

Where To

sgb wrote: »

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

ban them

RIP

El Guapo!

sgb wrote: »

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

Just for saying that word, I'm glad you banged your head on them.

daithieoghan

Hang 'em high

gurramok

dark_shadow wrote: »

What where they doing hanging around there in the first place? That's no place for them.

What should i do? Go around and pull them down in revenge for banging me on the head?!

shuvly

From tapping in "ban hanging baskets" to google to see if there were many other people concerned with this horrendous problem...yeah I am that bored/ sad...and apart from the first result..this does indeed seem to be a health and safety concern...but only from issues re watering them and their weight on feeble lamposts, not people walking into them!







Should have gone to specsavers?

smallBiscuit

People who don't look where they're walking, should they be banned?


:pac::pac::pac:

Butterface

I get your concern, but street bollards are a LOT worse.

You're walking along with your head in the air, trying to avoid hanging baskets and BAM.. your junk ends up weeping in pain.

CiaranMT

gurramok wrote: »

On the neighbouring street a short while back, I was walking along on the footpath minding my own business when 2 hanging baskets hanging from outside a house on a street(full of old style cottages) attacked me in the sense I banged my head of one and narrowly avoided the other.

Should there be rules as to the hanging of those things, like a health and safety audit or something? They are clearly not designed to not hurt the person of average height walking along the footpath :mad:

I could of been knocked out and needed hospital treatment from those flying stationary objects :mad:

sgb wrote: »

I'm a postperson and have banged my head on them loads of times

ban them

Ummm... Open your eyes?

gurramok

CiaranMT wrote: »

Ummm... Open your eyes?

Okay, lets put this one to rest


My eye height did not see said bloody objects but my forehead did(if they had eyes), get it?

I was looking straight ahead and these monsters of greenery decided to attack me whilst in my stride, i tell ya they are dangerous mother flippers!

LETHAL LADY

Hanging baskets are to flowers what a zoo is to animals.

gurramok

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Hanging baskets are to flowers what a zoo is to animals.

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What's gives flowers the right to attack innocent bystanders?

What did we ever do to the Cherry Tree?!

LETHAL LADY

Cage an animal long enough and they will go mad, who is to say that flowers do not feel the same way, hence the attack.

looksee

charlemont wrote: »

If hash is so dangerous that it must be banned then clearly hanging baskets should be banned too.

People grow hash in hanging baskets?

shuvly

gurramok wrote: »

Okay, lets put this one to rest


My eye height did not see said bloody objects but my forehead did(if they had eyes), get it?

I was looking straight ahead and these monsters of greenery decided to attack me whilst in my stride, i tell ya they are dangerous mother flippers!

Sorry gur, (can I call u that, I feel we have an AH relationship here now..) are you that vertically challenged that u didn't see a great big hunk of what must be fairly small flowers, it is feckin january, ) hanging outside the house.....and by the way, wtf are mother flippers?

gurramok

shuvly wrote: »

Sorry gur, (can I call u that, I feel we have an AH relationship here now..) are you that vertically challenged that u didn't see a great big hunk of what must be fairly small flowers, it is feckin january, ) hanging outside the house.....and by the way, wtf are mother flippers?

Yes shuvly lovely )

No, I didn't see such environmental terrorists strike me whilst on my daily business as I said they struck me on my forehead before it was too late.

Mother flippers, you have to ask dear, mother phuppers gives a hint?

Hope you are not one of those tree huggers?!:)

senorwipesalot

I was in a pub and I have also been assaulted by a hanging basket OP.
Similar story to yours except I was in a pub and pissed.The offending container had recently been fed.
Next thing I know my forehead is covered in a watery/moss peat/sh1te combo.

Well pissed off I was.

shuvly

I try my best to hug as many people as this strange island of ours will let me. ..another thread darling..just having a bit of craic here in arkla....happy saturday to you and yours




youbcan find me at maybeslighytlydrunk.com

partyatmygaff

Yes they should be banned. Especially if they result in you having to go to a hospital and being asked your religion. It's not you walking in to them that's the problem. It's the aftermath that's the problem...



I wonder how many will get the reference...

gurramok

shuvly wrote: »

I try my best to hug as many people as this strange island of ours will let me. ..another thread darling..just having a bit of craic here in arkla....happy saturday to you and yours

You certainly are lovely

shuvly

But seriously, I am was about to put hanging baskets out my door..two...just because I am not supposed to cos its nearly 100 years old ...and I shudnt...they can **** off ..I now have a mortgage until I die..with ulster bank so I am gonna be screwed over backwards, again and again







but the pansies will be lovely.....bollix

starbelgrade

gurramok wrote: »

I banged my head of one and narrowly avoided the other.

Ya big eejit.

gurramok

shuvly wrote: »

But seriously, I am was about to put hanging baskets out my door..two...just because I am not supposed to cos its nearly 100 years old ...and I shudnt...they can **** off ..I now have a mortgage until I die..with ulster bank so I am gonna be screwed over backwards, again and again

but the pansies will be lovely.....bollix

What?? Will those 100yr old baskets be an obstacle to purely innocent pedestrians like myself?:pac:

Hanging baskets can kill I tell ya, if those 2 phukkers had knocked me out and possibly killed me, I urge you not to hang them out without a health and safety review as you know you feel for passers by like me who can be grievously hurt?!

gurramok

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Yes they should be banned. Especially if they result in you having to go to a hospital and being asked your religion. It's not you walking in to them that's the problem. It's the aftermath that's the problem...



I wonder how many will get the reference...

Ok, I dunno what this loo-laa is on, anyone's guess? Is this poster high on something?

partyatmygaff

gurramok wrote: »

Ok, I dunno what this loo-laa is on, anyone's guess? Is this poster high on something?

Bad memory? :P