More like dangerous daggers of frozen water!

There's an icicle and balcony problem here in Kyiv. There are lots of balconies (pretty precarious looking ones too) that hang off buildings over the Kyiv city sidewalks. In the winter time, icicles form on these balconies. When it's freezing, it doesn't much matter, but when the weather warms up.... These daggers of death fall from the balconies onto the sidewalks where -- you guessed it -- people walk. Maybe it's just our friends being a bit alarmist, but we've heard lots of warnings and stories of Kyvians being killed by falling icicles. The best part is that someone goes around and tapes off large portions of sidewalks because of the danger, but everyone ignores the tape and walks under it. I do it too. I probably won't change behavior until I see someone have a close call.