Vigilance would be getting something like that fixed...
Fixed?? It's only possible to fix something if it's broken in the first place.
It's been done that way for much longer than it ain't been done... and it don't present near the danger you've been led to believe.
I live in Iowa... I have a greater chance of getting bitten by a shark.
This house has stood for over 100 years with a shared flue... with as many as 4 appliances sharing it.
My gosh... how did people survive before all these safety codes to keep them safe?? Listening to some of you... we all should'a died before the age of three. It took me over two hours to remove or disable all the stupid "safety" crap on the last grass cuttin' machine I bought... in over 50 years of cuttin' grass I've never been injured. See, about the time I was in kindergarten, dad pointed at the spinning blades and told me not to put my fingers in there. About that same time he also taught me how to swim... took me out on the lake and tossed a float off one side of the boat, and me off the other... then he stood there with his arms crossed and watched me "learn"... ain't never once in my life wore a "life" preserver jacket, yet I'm still alive.
There's even a sticker under the hood of of my wife's van warning of moving parts with a picture some cartoon character getting chopped to bits.
C'mon... really?? Are people so stupid, so unwilling to take personal responsibility that there has to be a sticker like that?? Back in-the-day dad taught me not to touch the car brakes on a snowy morning until after you got moving... just slip it into gear with your foot off the brake. The reason was your brakes could take a set and make difficult to get moving 'cause they'd be dragging... but now the "safety police" insist every car have the shift lever locked in park until you step on the brake. Really?? Why?? Because some idiot backed through his garage door I have to pay for that ******** I don't want on every car I buy now.
It ain't the job of government to keep us safe from ourselves... the only thing that's been accomplished by the "safety police" is to raise a nation of mindless idiots and wusses. For some reason now-a-days people expect to be "safe" at all times... they somehow believe they have a "right" to be 100% safe at all times... and they somehow believe government and all those safety codes provide that. Every time some bumblin' idiot injures himself we have to have a new rule, law or code adding yet another worthless expense to our lives.
So I ain't buyin' that my flue needs to be "fixed"... but I can think of a lot of things that should be "fixed"...
And I sure in the hell ain't buyin' that a "safety" code somehow makes me "safe"...
If you feel better, if it helps you sleep at night to follow some arbitrary, one-size-fits-all "safety" code or rule... then by all means you should do so. But you have no "right" to expect me to believe as you do... and you have no "right" to judge me if I don't.
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