[JSMC]

was cleaning on the main street when i notice this idiot coming laong the street. I kept my eye on him and then had to shout at him when he was about 2 steps from my ladder and still he walked into it with me on it.

pretty scary moment to say the least

[Tosh]

He may have been intoxicated?

Can you not do your High Street accounts in the early morning when there's very few people about?

[Chris Galloway]

Should you really be working on a ladder ( i assume un tied) on a busy street? I take it the area wasn;t cordoned off, or had another guy below checking they area was clear etc?

All highstreet jobs for me are done at dawn or not at all. Its just not worth the hassle with joe public.

[JSMC]

the guy was looking across the road at something and tlkaing to his mate and generally not looking where he was going.

[DASERVICES]

I think you will find anyone working in a public place with a ladder someone needs to be footing it. The problem you would have if the chap hurt himself walking into your ladders he could sue you.

[JSMC]

point taken.

[trike]

OR KILL YOU IF YOU COME OFF LADDER AND YOU KILL HIM IF YOU LAND ON HIM

[jeff1]

I was doing the side of a pub one day when I was still on my ladders, the side was on a road with no pavements.
My ladder was propped on a metal window basket that was bolted to the wall.

I heard a car coming down the hill with its revs running high, I looked up and seen this car on a collision course with my ladder, All's I could see of the driver was a hat just above the steering wheel and a pair of eye's peering through the steering wheel, I thought paddington bear was driving it,  I was so worried, I put both my hands onto the metal basket so if she did take my ladder away I would have been left hanging from the basket and I could have dropped to the floor.

She missed my ladder but was so close the wall of the tyre's brushed against the bottom stiles of my ladder and I felt the vibration at the top, ''What a sweet old lady she was''?   That was the closest I came to being knocked of mine.

[kenaltobelli]

i have had someone walk in to me with a pole in my hand and a viz vest on
for me i do not work on pavements on ladders as i had a girl of about 10 going to shake the ladders or something what can you do about that you cant grab them and tell them off and i doubt you can
sue prevention is the best thats when a trolley and pole system is best

[gerard mcmanus]

I am sorry but you have to be pretty dozy to walk into a ladder, it doesn't matter what length you go to, some people as accident pron. If the guy wasn't looking infront of him, while he was walking it was his fault even if the law says different. All the stickers and flashing lights wouldn't make a difference of he wasn't looking infront of him, and that could happen early in the morning as well, of course allot less likely but still. Why should anyone have someone foot a ladder to stop a guy walking into it. Secondly if you weren't there, I am sure he would have found a bus stop, lamp post, post box, shop Aboard etc. Should we have someone foot, an Aboard from a shop in a busy high street, just incase some idiot isn't watching where he is going...

oooooohhh!

gerard  

[gerard mcmanus]

i have had someone walk in to me with a pole in my hand and a viz vest on
for me i do not work on pavements on ladders as i had a girl of about 10 going to shake the ladders or something what can you do about that you cant grab them and tell them off and i doubt you can
sue prevention is the best thats when a trolley and pole system is best

you can soak them, just an accident of course. Thats why its unlucky to walk under one
 

[Sir Squeaky]

I remember being up a ladder doing the upstairs of a shop once, and an old biddy in an invalid car headed towards the bottom of my ladder.

I shouted down to warn her but she still bumped into it, thankfully not hard, and I hung on!

What was worse was she got caught up with her wheel and kept trying to reverse.
I said "Hang on! I'll be down now!", but she kept on wriggling back and forward at it!
Meanwhile I'm hanging on like I'm in a storm.

She was one psycho old lady!

[trevor perry]

i was once using a sixty foot ladder the one which is rope operated for highering and lowering it was many years ago when you could use this height of ladder and you did not have to have them footed, i was using it on a school when the school bell went a brainless teenager came running out the door ran past the ladder and decided to do a tarzan swing on the rope on the way past the ladder bent right in and very nearly threw me of when it sprang back, i always removed the ropes from any big ladders after that.