A person has a DVD from a video library which is overdue, and they have received one reminder phone call from the business. They have not returned the video, and it is now approximately one month overdue. With no further reminders, the owner of the video store visits the home of the person and takes the video back. They then demand the overdue fees, and become verbally abusive toward the person, and stand in the doorway, holding the door open, yelling personally insulting abuse inches from the face of the person. Is this legal? If not, what are the specific offences committed?
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We check all of our smoke detectors every time we put our clocks forward or back (daylight savings time). It's become a routine (it's actually part of the ads on tv for changing your clocks in New Zealand). We set up a fire escape plan when we first started having kids. When we check the alarms, I remind the kids. Nothing fancy, just the basics. When the kids were younger, we practiced it once in awhile, and we probably should do that again! We also practiced crawling through the house with our eyes closed (because if there's smoke you have to crawl and the smoke is so irritating you often have to close eyes) to measure out where doors and other bedrooms are. We practiced feeling our bedroom door for heat, stop drop and roll, etc. We have 6 smoke detectors in our home (fairly large home). If you have a smoke detector that keeps going off with cooking, then it's probably too close to the kitchen. You should have one in your living areas (if they're not connected to the kitchen) and either in each bedroom or in a small hallway the bedrooms come off of. Smoke detectors are not expensive, they're easy to attach to the ceiling and they save lives. Other than being safe with cooking and matches/candles- they're the number one saver of lives! Go ahead and get that smoke detector in place-probably more than 1! It'll give you peace of mind and could save you and your family's life! Chances are you'll never have to live through a fire-but fire safety is something everyone should know! God bless you! Hope you can get everything sorted out soon!
We have a plan but (for shame) have never practiced it.I live in a small apartment on the third floor, we have 3 exits but none of them are on the ground level (2 balconies and 1 door leading to a staircase outside). The plan is grab the first cat you see (we keep a bag of treats by the door to shake in case we need it) and head to the exits. Obvious choice is the one leading to a stair case, but if we can't use it, either balcony will do until the fire dept shows up to rescue us from it (in a dire emergency we could jump off one and land on grass, the other is asphelt). Alert the neighbors as soon as we get out so they can save their kids. We meet across the street. The smoke detector is hooked up to the electricity so we don't have to check batteries. I was worried about that detector because if the electricity is out because of the fire, it won't go offbut the Fire Chief was here one day doing a random check and he assured me it'd go off before the electricity died. I have a battery operated detector just in case, and 2 fire extinguishers in my kitchen.
well i;m seventeen and yes, my family did do all of those things when i was younger at least. we made a safe meeting spot [the mailbox of our neighbor], and changed our smoke detector batteries when needed, because if you didn't it would beep like once every five minutes, which was quite annoying but proved to be a great reminder. i think that taking all of these habits are very important factors in keeping your family safe, since my dad was a volunteer fire fighter and i've heard many horrifying stories from him and the fellow fire fighters in his station.
We do everything except for having meeting points - it's a small village, it would be kinda obvious where people were. If you get a slightly more expensive smoke alarm, they often have a quiet button that you can press when cooking so it won't go off, just pips at you for ten minutes before going back to being on. It's far safer than taking the batteries out, because you can't forget to reset it.
