On Fri, 9 May 2008 11:36:58 +0100, "AndyW"
wrote:
>"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
>
Thats what really irks me about all this " think of the chillldruuuun"
stuff . kids need to learn what hurts and what doesn't .If you climb a
tree and fall it is sore so next time you take more care . When I was
a kid we used to wade a river (eek) and one time we had a bonfire on
the other side ( a BIG one) and there were big stones around it and
when we left the stones got kicked around when the fire was put out
and me,kike a tosser,picked one up and evey single fingertip got
burned and I went screaming across the river back home to have the Dr
called out ( GP's did that in those days) and all my fingers got
bandaged . Stopped me doing anyhting similar again .
Recently I had to phone about flood prevention walls being built along
the same river ( which I fish) and I aksed if consideration had been
given to anglers and of course,the first thing I get told is " we need
to think of the safety " in other words we must stop kids at all costs
getting to the river .. |