Aesop, Chaucer et al

Having recently brought into question the work of Aesop, it now appears that Chaucer's advice that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones (which I have traced back to Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde' in 1385 and which the 'slow-witted' Benjamin Franklin copied 350 years later when he wrote, 'Don't throw stones at your neighbors', if your own windows are glass.') has been denounced by the EU Health & Safety Inspectorate.

This follows an incident in Turkey yesterday when a five-storey block of flats collapsed in Istanbul, where many residents' lives were saved by the shop owner of a coffee shop in the building's basement alerting them of the impending tragedy by throwing pebbles at their windows!

HELLO Mr Chaucer! What do you say now?