"AndyW" wrote in message
news:4824253f$1_1@glkas0286.greenlnk.net...
> "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
Quite so - we need to remember that the teenager had no business to be doing
what he did. He deserves no sympathy and no compensation.
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