The World Still Has Too Many Reporters

Your city: helping your 20 year old "children" to get mowed down in crosswalks, because they think everyone will be looking out for them.

And now for the evening drivel.

In the world of make-believe jobs, this kind of snot ranks right up there with Fairness and Inclusion Manager.

hands up anyone whose child has bnever been hurt while playing....anyone ? didn't think so....this girl seriously needs to reevaluate her job skills...'reporting' isn't one of them.

BAN PLAY GROUNDS!

14? In a playground?

At 14 I was figuring how far I could jump my Honda XR-75 dirt bike. Turns out that at right around 55 mph I could clear a two lane highway! Well at least the first three times. The fourth time cost me seven weeks with my arm in a cast. And a bent handle bar.

Kids get dings and cuts and bruises. It's called living. Wonder why there is supposedly an obesiety epidemic? Because we have our kids locked up in the house wearing bubble wrap with only their hands free to run the game controller instead of playing pick up games of street hockey or baseball or hide and seek.

Consider those poor cats and dogs dropping their tender butts down on a heroin hypodermic needle below the tennis courts.
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Anyway...

My 17 year old grandson broke the tip of his finger yesterday,
swinging from a rope, like Tarzan,
into a cool pool of a stream.

What happened son?

"I let go of the rope, but had an epic failure, because being scared I had pushed my index finger into the rope and when I let go it didn't."

Ouch!

Maybe a young female reporter can write an article to help us sue the rope manufacture?

Did the reporter think to apply some statistical science to this "recent increase of injuries" and question whether the increase in injuries could be due to the fact that the playground is new and interesting attracting more kids than usual - hence more injuries?

This is a legit story, folks. It's there in the Charter of Rights -- life shall be risk free. That's the guarantee to every citizen of Trudeaupia. For kids that means an existence free of cuts and bruises. The government will care for you. The government will care for you. ZZzzzzz.

At 14 I was figuring how far I could jump my Honda XR-75 dirt bike.

Ouch!

My other 12 year old grandson could do tricks with his skateboard-

Even had him on a TV news spot jumping up on,
and sliding down, a 12 meter school guard rail.

Cameras weren't there though when he slid about 9 meters and bounced head first the other 6 meters on his head down the steps.

Kid used to have beautiful teeth.

I was born and raised in a town where we didn't have a playground! And NO lawyers to sue anyone if we DID get injured on the swings or teeter-totter at the Elk's Hall!

I feel deprived.

When was the last time we heard something sensible out of Britain?

What England used to be:what it is now...

Disturbing.

Cuts, scrapes, and the odd broken bone are par for the course on any playground. Seven broken bones in seven weeks, however, suggests possible manufacturer defect (design or installation). I see nothing wrong with the local paper looking into this.

You all do realize that the Norwich Evening News is a local paper, right?

When the son was about 9 years old, came back from a playground, I gave him a hug, it seemed painful. He never complained. Broke his collarbone. Got him fixed at the doctors, told him to be more careful. And that was the end of the story.
He is some 35 now, still give him hug.

Davenport at July 12, 2011 9:34 AM is on to something.

The local papers even in large cities in the UK will print things like window was broken on Gardner St. or Johnny can't find his slingshot.

Davenport,

Me thinks you are becoming unhinged.

Worst hair accident I've ever seen , she may have a point.

Double flips off the swing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1XWKbgq_So

Singles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jighBUMm75c&feature=related

Boys will be boys, playgrounds notwithstanding.
They will engage in risky behaviour.
What's next, cut down all the trees because boys fall out of them?

Maybe these people should start a petition to repeal the law of gravity, after all...they think they can control the climate.

It is because of nonsense like this that many playgrounds at the provincial and regional parks in Saskatchewan have been stripped of anything that someone might get hurt on for fear of lawsuits. Rafts, water slides, swings are mostly gone. I'm actually surprised that they have left the grass and trees.

Kindly read my comment on "perception is reality". I think it is comment #3. Cheers

An alternative title is "Scratch a journalist, find a creep peeking into your bedroom window in the middle of the night"
And yes , I grew up in the country, recklessly. And would not give up a single broken bone or stitched up wound.
My Dad had a Philosophy that if I was old enough to crank- start the snowmobile I was old enough to launch it over the ditch at 40 Mph.
Iv'e always wondered why our so called "modern society" blames fatal accidents on the car instead of the driver.
ect. etc. Ad Nauseam.

I think this reporter would better serve the British public by doing an investigation on all the apparent epidemic of debilitating brain injuries afflicting folks lately...especially those folks in the news business...

Ken Kulak (10:37 am). You are right. Many play parks have been closed or play equipment removed all over the country because of fears of lawsuits should a child get a splinter or a broken bone from normal play. Yet we distribute needles to junkies which, contrary to what those distributing the needles say, are NOT all collected and returned. These lurk in the so-safe grass of our playgrounds.

And let's not forget taxpayers rebuilding playgrounds around the continent over fears of arsenic-treated wood being a health threat.

I jumped off the top of the "big" slide when I was in elementary school: compound leg fracture, ouch. (Had a cool ambulance ride though). Suppose my folks should have sued - where were the idiot cages and warning signs to not jump from the top of the "big" slide. WHERE WAS THE PLAYGROUND SUPERVISORS?Now most of the cool playground equipment is outlawed: the see-saw and others. Poor kids these days.

remember davenport's life experience consists of sitting on the davenport.

Not to worry, sooner or later Wii will come out with an awesome virtual playground making the real thing obsolete (including swearing and snarling teens, dog crap and little kids having temper tantrums).

Does Davenport EVER agree with the tenor of a sda thread, in this case, the sissification of society. Ever?

I'm thinking of that Monty Python skit The Argument Clinic.
"You're just contradicting me! ... an argument isn't the same as a contradiction .... ".

Oh no, a one-inch curb? Contact my solicitor. Oh wait a minute, I am my solicitor.

"His mother Helen said: “It honestly looked like he had a machete through his knee. There do seem to be a lot of accidents there."

What kind of a place do they live? I've never seen a machete go through somebody's knee before.
That's one tough neighborhood! Playground injuries should be the least of their worries.

In her defense, she may be employed at a machete factory,
and has witnessed some horrific industrial accidents there.

Davvy might have a point. It is a bit weird that there are that many accidents happening. Could be a problem with the new equiptment.

What's weirder is that the U.K. still has a working playground.

(I love the picture of what appears to be the feral kid from Road Warrior showing off his scraped knee. A whole band-aid he needed!)

Comedians: Playgrounds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52OoXrF6z20

And

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqv38fP7cr0

The left wants control of your life. Nothing less will do.

They are like little mice living in fear of everything around them yet jealous to the core of those who are not. The reason they hate guns is because they don’t trust themselves with one. They hate conservative white men because they are generally considered independent personalities able to stand on their own.

So in itself it’s not surprising that they would attack anything that isn’t under heavy government regulation, including playgrounds. Unregulated playgrounds could potentially build independence and confidence in children. The left could never stand for that. So they send in the only backbone and muscle they have – Government protection.

It’s not hard to understand why the left wants bigger government with the subsequent loss of freedom that accompanies it. In their minds the government stands as their bully bodyguard in the playground, while they run around like weak little pencil-necks taunting the “normal’ kids into a fight. “Touch me and I’ll sue”.

Therefore bigger and bigger government means a bigger personal bodyguard in their short-sighted and feeble rationality.

"What kind of a place do they live? I've never seen a machete go through somebody's knee before." - probably the same neighbourhood where Steven Seagall whacked the guy's arm off with the machete in the movie (wrong continent - right 'hood).

And that kid will be the poster boy for Playground Pussies (LLC). He ain't never gettin' laid after that.

Me No Dhimmi >

“Does Davenport EVER agree with the tenor of a sda thread”

No. But that is what makes “Davenport” and other like him that post here moonbat crazy.

Very few of them exist publicly in struggling or nation building societies. That is why they thrive with the anonymity of the internet in soft societies where they have the luxury of spoilt brats living on their grandparents sweat, blood & tears.

History proves that the Davenports will once again fade into the night as their lazy and irrational minds produce a society that will be taken from them eventually. Unfortunately we all face the consequences of their suicidal processes of changing the status quo in order to pursue their logically flawed fantasies.

Dear Annabelle,

I'd like your thoughts on this one...it might be newsworthy.

When I was a litle fellow, I was taking a leak through a chain-link school-yard fence with a few of my buddies.

One of my buds was talking and looking around instead of paying attention to his equipment - and along came a mosquito and stung his john thomas.

Now the poor little fellow got stuck with a nick-name for life. And if DDT hadn't been banned, this indignity never would have happened.

So if you were him, who would you sue? Rachel Carson? Health Canada? Or, would you just suck it up (in a figurative sense of course) as one of life's valuable little lessons.

Black Mamba: "(I love the picture of what appears to be the feral kid from Road Warrior showing off his scraped knee. A whole band-aid he needed!)"

According to the article, there are 32 stitches underneath that band-aid.

You're right, though, that he could use a haircut.

There must not be much news to report there. There are cities in the US where it all one can do to get the police to come to report an automobile accident.There they are able to get a reporter and a photographer to look at a skinned knee. What the hell do these people do for excitement? Watch Monty Python reruns?

The PC crowd have made playgrounds a joke. Have you seen the new "Friendly" artifacts they use
for play. Even a hamster would be boared. No monkey Bars, no swings allowed. No merry go rounds, no clibing bars. Just plastic forts & pretend climbing walls. with a few speing hobby horses.

Playgrounds should be made as safe as possible and be genuinely child-friendly. However, kids will always find a way to hurt themselves. I've seen it many times and it always baffles me some of the crazy things they do.

Kids, who aren’t allowed to test their limits, don’t have a clue about what their limits are. Add risk free, outer limit computer games and, “Houston, we have a problem”. Give such kids a new playground and they’re likely to overdo it.

When I started teaching many decades ago, the kids climbed on floor to high ceiling “jungle gyms” with hanging ropes. The phys. ed. consultants—quite rightly, I believe—told us ordinary teachers that kids would challenge themselves, but carefully, on such equipment. That’s what happened: for the couple of decades I was in gyms with hundreds of kids, as young as grade four, on this equipment, there was not one injury. And I’m not aware of any at all in any of the many schools I was in.

Now—and for the past 20 years or so—this equipment sits idle, like large, rope and metal grid, art installations, in all the gyms I’ve been in. Phys. ed. teachers are no longer allowed to let the kids climb on such structures. How utterly ludicrous.

As usual these days, it’s the worst of all possible worlds: flabby kids, with no idea of limits, who dabble in high risk, virtual behaviour, get into trouble, of course, the minute they find themselves in a real life situation in which they’re vulnerable.

Our poor kids: cotton battening them hasn’t worked out at all well—not for any of us.

I asked my Chinese neighbour about this news item. He said, "Knee? Ha!"