Does HDB have direct IDD line to GOD

[Funner]

if we stay in landed property, and our tree fell onto a lamp post and totally destroy the lamp post can we claim it is an act of GOD

 

only in singapore can government organisations get away like this

 

 

 

 

 

 

Car owner fumes over fallen tree

 

Owner angered by town council's advice to file insurance claim, which could raise her premium in future.

 

Thu, Sep 22, 2011

my paper

 

By Sophie Hong

 

Claiming insurance for a wrecked car has become a nightmare for one motorist.

 

Ms Patricia Yeo, 37, told my paper yesterday that the Ang Mo Kio Town Council informed her husband on Tuesday that their car had been damaged by a fallen tree.

 

The Chevrolet Aveo had been parked in a Housing Board carpark in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, near where the couple live.

 

But what angered Ms Yeo, who works in the insurance industry, was that the town council had merely advised her husband to file an insurance claim.

 

The town council did not say whether the claim should be made against the town council or otherwise, Ms Yeo said.

 

She said: "I have insurance for my car but if we claim it, my premiums are going to be higher (in future)."

 

As the car was sent to the workshop just yesterday morning, repair costs have yet to be calculated. Ms Yeo believes it would not be a small sum.

 

It was raining on Tuesday but Ms Yeo's neighbours told her that there was no wind when the tree fell.

 

She also noted that "not a single branch" had fallen from the other trees in the area. It made her suspect that the tree fell because it had been poorly maintained.

 

Ms Yeo said she also saw pruning work being carried out on other trees near the carpark yesterday morning.

 

The tree next to the fallen one was removed as well. Workers carrying out the job told her that that tree was "unhealthy".

 

The Ang Mo Kio Town Council did not respond to my paper's queries yesterday.

 

Lawyer Lee Terk Yang said that Ms Yeo could take action against the town council for not maintaining the trees.

 

However, the town council would most likely cite this as "an act of god" in its defence.

 

"In that case, she will have to prove that the trees in the area were 'unhealthy', but it will be an uphill task since the trees had already been pruned or removed," said Mr Lee.

 

 

[Kopites]

Ang Mo Kio under Lee H L ! So time for her to repent !

[Kb27]

Wait for the next tree to drop and kill someone and see who want to be responsible.

[Littleknown]

 

Hope town council will give in if got public pressure. Or improve their pruning.

 

If not, next tree fall may be you or me and they will just say too bad lor.

 

 

[Vid]

Wait for the next tree to drop and kill someone and see who want to be responsible.

 

"An act of GOD lor." What else.

 

You think the town council stupid? The first thing they do the next day is remove all evident so you have nothing to prove. It's not the first time trees have fallen so they are well prepared. Unless you can get experts to examine the tree before it's carried away, it's a lost cause.

[Kiadaw]

Of all people, she worked in an insurance company, she should know better.

[SimonTan]

Got precedent before already.

A lamppost fell down and killed a young boy in the HDB basketball court.

 

Act of god due to corrosion. Nobody responsible. The dead boy's fault for being at the wrong time and place!

 

This is Singapore ok!

 

 

 

Wait for the next tree to drop and kill someone and see who want to be responsible.