“Councils have ripped up or paved over acres of traditional cobblestones from streets across Britain, amid fears of compensation claims from people who trip over on them.” [Telegraph]
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
by Walter Olson on November 9, 2010
“Councils have ripped up or paved over acres of traditional cobblestones from streets across Britain, amid fears of compensation claims from people who trip over on them.” [Telegraph]
Tagged as: historic preservation, roads and streets, United Kingdom

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It would be nice to go a day without reading about the asinine behavior of what passes for leadership in that pathetic excuse for a country known as England. This makes the third story today.
It’s like common sense is a foreign concept.
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