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When I lived in the suburbs of Naples people would burn their trash in big piles whenever the garbage collectors went on strike and "nobody" was liable, even th
by umvi 6y ago
When I lived in the suburbs of Naples people would burn their trash in big piles whenever the garbage collectors went on strike and "nobody" was liable, even though sometimes the fire would spread and burn/damage stuff on the neighbor's property. Then again, Europeans don't have the same litigious culture/attitude that Americans have.
- luckylion 6y agoAt least Italians don't, but you get a lot of problems stemming from the "whatever, just burn it, not my problem, I just want my garbage gone"-culture. You'd get into serious trouble doing the same further north in Germany, Denmark or Sweden.
- umvi 6y agoIndeed, and I admit, even within Italy this is likely uniquely a Naples problem.
- kurthr 6y agoAnother reason is that there have been intermittent issues with garbage pickup for decades in Napoli, but I don't think there's been a full strike in the last few years... but it is of course probably still controlled by the Camorra.
- Jommi 6y agoIs it the attitude or is it the system?
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoper-capita, lawsuits occur at more or less the same level in the USA as across most of western europe. the USA just has a culture that talks about suing people a lot more; in practice, Europe and the US do so at about the same rte.
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- kurthr 6y agoHow many of those fires burned 10km^2? 100m^2? 1000km^2? That's the size of each of the lightning complexes still burning. I'd guess that in decades none of them have or it would have been in the news and nobody would have done it again... Lot's of rural places burn garbage in the US. They just don't do it where there's a high risk of burning down the neighborhood.