After serious thinking jasper wrote :
> 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
This is not meant to be either.
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Baldoni
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