@JimmyT said:
@AJP said:
Frankly, I can’t believe that I am being told how far I can open MY windows in MY home just because some parents in CBD high rise buildings can’t supervise their children.You are making the assumption that you will be there every minute of every day when there is even the remotest chance that may be a child in your home. The law, quite rightly, does not allow you to make that assumption. Your argument is very similar to the anti-pool safety argument … and yet dozens of children used to die in “safe” swimming pool areas.
As I live by myself and no one else has a key to my home, I can make the assumption there isn’t the remotest chance of a child being in my home when I’m not there, which is different to a pool because children can wander into backyards when the owner isn’t there.
If this law was really about child safety it would target the homes where children live rather than where they don’t, it would allow windows to be locked closed rather than locked open where locks already exist, it would allow a piece of dowl to be placed in sliding windows instead of insisting on locks, and it would take account of fire safety rather than expecting people to be fiddling around with keys and locks in the dark and smoke while their house is burning.
If our SM was serious about enforcing the law he would let us install the $5 locks at a total cost of $100 instead of over $1,500. (I reckon he’s getting a commission.)
Someone is making a lot of money out of this ineffective law. My mother lives in an over 55s complex of 4 single storey villas where all the windows go from the ceiling to the ground, (i.e they have a fall of 5cms) but they have to pay $220 for someone to sign a piece of paper to say they don’t need locks. Seriously!