Damage to car from neigbours trampoline

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Even more importantly, are you really going to see your next door neighbour in court over £300, unless you plan on moving house very quickly?


Take me to court and I'd never forget. I might not do anything, but say if I saw smoke coming from the house, or I saw strange callers sledgehammer the door open when there was no-one in, I'd go back to reading the paper....



Just take the £300, and use it to offset your insurance excess, unless you were planning on lying at renewal when they ask about "any accidents claims or losses", in which case you will have to stump up the £300 yourself.

Hunter_Jaeger

facade wrote: »

Even more importantly, are you really going to see your next door neighbour in court over £300, unless you plan on moving house very quickly?

So where do you draw the line?

Or do you just put up a sign saying I'm a wimp and you walk all over me and steal my money?

Aretnap

Car_54 wrote: »

An Airbus 319 weighs 41 tonnes, which I think qualifies as heavy. It moved me from Inverness to Gatwick yesterday.

Unless the trampoline has a couple of large jet engines attached to it, I'm not sure that's a particularly useful comparison.

Ultimately the test is whether a reasonable person, without specialist knowledge and who doesn't spend much too long on internet forums arguing about unlikely accidents, would have been expected to foreseer the risk of this accident occurring, and take more steps to prevent it. The OP isn't going to get s definitive answer to that question on here - we're not the people he has to convince. There are reasonable strangeness either way, and it's possible that two different judges on two different days could reach opposite conclusions.

For what it's worth I do notice that one post complains that none of her neighbours have secured their trampolines... which tends to suggest either that she unlucky enough to live in an area where all her neighbours are unreasonable, reckless people, or rise that reasonable people do Perth not realise that there is a risk of a trampoline blowing away in high winds...

Mercdriver

My brother in law's sister has had her trampoline fly through the air 5 times now. It's never occurred to her to secure it.

reeac

I have some sympathy with the idea of not falling out with the neighbours but I learned a lesson quite late on in life as follows: I had always subconsciously thought that if you did someone a favour then they in turn owed you something .....not that you would keep a strict tally of favours but that you would maintain a rough balance. I then encountered someone at work ....who reported ultimately to me via other people who asked me for a favour which I agreed to but then a week later he was back asking for another, bigger, favour. I concluded that he didn't subscribe to any quid pro quo concept but rather saw my giving a concession as a sign of weakness on my part which encouraged him to push his luck ie. start a ratcheting process. The whole situation resolved itself subsequently when he was killed in a traffic accident. I doubt that there are many such people around but it's worth bearing in mind.

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Hunter_Jaeger wrote: »

So where do you draw the line?

Or do you just put up a sign saying I'm a wimp and you walk all over me and steal my money?

As you please, if you think £300 (that there is no guarantee you will get, you might even lose the offered £300 if the court decides that there is no negligence and your whole claim fails) is worth making an enemy out of the next door neighbour over.



Me, I think it is worth £300 to be on good terms with them. My neighbour pops round and feeds my dog if I'm going to be out all day, takes in parcels, 'phones me if suspicious callers come round....

sheramber

OP accepts £300

neighbour happy- may be prepared on good terms in future

OP unhappy - not likely to be on good terms in future

Likewise neighbour pays £600- unhappy and not likely to be on good terms

OP happy and more likely to be prepared to be on good terms.

SingleSue

facade wrote: »

I know that, but does everybody?, and more importantly, what would a court think about whether someone is negligent because they didn't know, or consider it?



I know that trampolines fly through the air and land on cars because I've read about it on here.

If I hadn't heard about it happening, would I have thought to nail down the kid's trampoline, when my head is full of thoughts of paying the bills, keeping them safe & amused and how not to get my car stolen?



Probably not.

I secured my trampoline down from the moment I put it up in the garden, not because I read about it somewhere but because it just seemed logical that it could get picked up by the wind and thrown somewhere.

Mind you, I suppose many years of camping helped in that conclusion, especially a memory of a stormy July evening when I was desperately hanging onto canvas and poles in an effort to stop a large, heavy tent blowing away despite double guying, pegging and storm poling, in the end we fared better than the awning behind us which flipped over the caravan it was tethered to and shot poles at my parents like spears as they drove onto the site.....:rotfl:

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cubegame wrote: »

Some might say if you own a tangerine coloured car it's increased the value if there is less paint on it than there was before.

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DoaM

facade wrote: »

I know that trampolines fly through the air and land on cars because I've read about it on here.

And so have I ... I thought this thread was deja vu.