Doing the Pancake Walk
Health and Safety struck yesterday in St Albans:
With their frying pans primed, the teams were set to sprint to victory.
Hundreds of well-wishers lined the course expecting the usual thrills, spills and slip-ups of the annual pancake race. But the jolly mood turned sour when a new health and safety rule was announced moments before the start – no running.Spectators at the Shrove Tuesday event in St Albans, Hertfordshire, booed the city’s tourism manager Charles Baker as he explained there were fears competitors might fall over.
Mr Baker announced: ‘We have a new set of rules today due to the wet weather conditions and health and safety regulations.’
After outlining the running ban, he added: ‘It is a genuine health and safety concern. People fall over in the dry – they will certainly fall over in the wet.
Our Idiotic Police
From the Macclesfield Express, via Big Brother Watch:
Police are set to switch sides to warn you about home safety… by posing as burglars.
Residents could be dragged from their beds as late as 2am by police checking their windows and doors are locked in a new tactic to slash burglaries across Macclesfield.
And if the robber-cops find a way in, they won’t hesitate to hammer on the door until they wake you up, whatever the hour.
I’ve a good idea what I’d say if they got me up at 3pm, and it wouldn’t be ‘Thank you, officer’.
