stillnobodyhome@gmail.com formulated on Friday :
> 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 ..
This guy I grew up with felt the need to play with guns. He shot
himself in the foot and we dropped him outside the hospital. He never
played with guns again.
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Baldoni
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