That's terrible!!! Was the story in the paper?

There is a big debate about it in Sweden - new health and safety risk since people started living in attics. Basically, the question is: Whose responsibility is it to get rid of the icicles, what's the maximum size it can get to before they have to do something. Should there be laws about this.. etc.

And every article ends with "Let's solve this before an icicle falls on a small child... " or something like that. It's not really clear to me whether that has happened or not.

In the meantime the advise is that when it's thawing, people should try to walk close to the walls - apparently icicles fall outward so you are safe if you are close to the wall.