"Brave New Britain" wrote in message
news:r938249qvmdgq5app9gt46q0t9t7berr5d@4ax.com...
> Cemeteries not child's play - SBC
> By Andrew Keddie
>
> Borders Today, UK: 8 May 2008
> http://www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk/news/Cemeteries-not-childs-play-.4059446.jp
> Or, http://tinyurl.com/6dbsqk
>
> THE spiked railings on which a Selkirk teenager impaled himself last
> month will not be removed from the town's graveyard by Scottish
> Borders Council.
>
> Instead, the local authority has issued a plea for children and their
> parents not to use any of its 140 cemeteries and churchyards as
> playgrounds or shortcuts.
Common sense at last.
A teenager should realise the risks and consequences of climbing over spiked
railings, at the very least he know now and will be unlikely to do it again.
AndyW
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