On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:51:36 +0100, Baldoni
wrote:
>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.
It's Baloney - the anecdote kid.
No - on second thoughts anecdotes are usually interesting or amusing |