----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Burchett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 10:03 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Cheshire Fire check offer
>> > You can't legislate for human stupidity. A course in how to live safely > would only help if taught in schools and even then I doubt if it would > succeed. > It might help if it emphasised strongly that life is not in fact safe, and that it is quite easy to die of stupidity. The press could help when such things happen by rather than eulogising another "promising young footballer", point out that removing yourself from the gene pool by, for example, coming into contact with 25 kV catenery which someone has helpfully placed out of accidental reach, is in fact a really stupid thing to do. Incidentally, I don't know if it's the same in England, but going by the Scottish press, promising young footballers seem to have a very limited life expectancy. -- Niall
