i love my country, but i hate thie litigious foam-padded little country we're making out of us...stope trying to be mr saftey and shut up, if you dont like it, dont waste your time posting here...
Litigious, yes, if you lot just get rid of 'punitive damages' you'd do fine though. But foam-padded? Hardly... In many respects Europe, and the Benelux in particular, have a lot more regulations and little rules. Aviation regulation springs to mind, also, I found scuba diving in the States to be a much more relaxed affair than I expected, what with your reputation for 'foam-padding' everything; a lot less rule-minded than dive ops in other countries (especially Australia! [:@])
ps. no reason for the Belgians to feel slighted... there's plenty of stupid people everywhere. The commenter was just poking fun at you... hey, you get plenty of that from us Dutchies, and you give as good as you get. It's nothing bad