clownboy
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I am for it because it benefits the whole neighborhood. There are a lot of nurses and the like in the hood who have to work regardless of road conditions. Every time it has snowed this year, I have gone downtown to help somebody I know out by shoveling pathways between 3 plowed parking lots so the ladies who park in the lot furthest from their work would not have to climb the mounds of snow pushed up along the margins of the three lots to get to their work as the companies that do the lots just push it all up in big rows and leave.
As for the OP, my city has an ordinance that requires that you maintain the sidewalk in front of your home/business free of snow and ice. If someone falls and injures themselves because you do not, then you are liable. The guy who wants the kids to have to walk in the street instead of down the sidewalk is just a penis.
Once again, it's better to ask before helping someone who might not want your help. Perhaps the fellow with the bigass plow does damage when he clears and the one neighbor wants to clear his spot without damage. Perhaps he just wants to do it himself. In either case, the fellow with the plow is the bigger asshole. If he weren't he wouldn't be piling the street's snow in front of the other fellow's house.
Remember the old saying, "Some kinds of help are no help at all".