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| Thread ID: 108611 | 2010-04-04 22:39:00 | News flash: Boy falls off bunk in DoC hut! | John H (8) | PC World Chat |
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| 872849 | 2010-04-04 22:39:00 | This folks is what we have come down to: www.stuff.co.nz First, this is regarded as news. Secondly, an accident like this sparks an inquiry at governmental level - hardly Cave Creek stuff is it? Thirdly, who in the name of all that is holy is the Economic Development Ministry, and what jurisdiction can they possibly have in a situation like this? What does an accident like this have to do with economic development, and why would a Ministry (which is there to guide a Minister on policy) rather than a Government Department be carrying out such a trivial enquiry? I am just reading Clarissa Dickson Wright's "Rifling through my drawers", where she talks about the bs that is trotted out by the Health and Safety people in Pomgolia, and the crap that comes out of Europe about the shape of fruit. Why for goodness sake are we going further down this sort of track after a change of government? I thought those of you who are Tories blamed Labour for all this nanny state bs, but your prats are doing the same old same old. I despair - I think of the fun and learning I got out of all the risks I was able to take as a child/youth - they now seem to be forbidden or legislated out of existence. Now all a kid is allowed to do is play with an iPod Touch, provided they don't get RSI, or damage their ears or... Sigh. The world is going to hell in a handcart. Grump, grump. |
John H (8) | ||
| 872850 | 2010-04-04 22:45:00 | Not going to h . . .; it has arrived. Witness the Arch-demon Rodney. PC stuff is just flimflam to distract us from the 4 horses prancing and rearing. Could be wrong of course, but what else explains TV? :lol: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 872851 | 2010-04-04 22:46:00 | ***, the boy would have been acting the goat, His parents should be praised for getting him out into the fresh air | plod (107) | ||
| 872852 | 2010-04-04 22:49:00 | That's bloody ridiculous, if anyone should be investigating it should be OSH or the department of labour, but kids fall all the time. Your right about all the stupid laws coming from Brussels one of the reasons I left. His parents were doing the right thing by removing him from his electronic toys | gary67 (56) | ||
| 872853 | 2010-04-04 23:03:00 | Once again it is going to be a fight between "fence at the top" supporters and "ambulance at the bottom" enthusiasts. Meanwhile kids are suffering unspeakable agonies in droves, and other campers are kept awake by the sickening thudding of small bodies onto the floor. Measures must be taken urgently to halt this carnage. The problem is simply caused by gravity being applied in the wrong places. Remove gravity from the edge of upper bunks, and re-direct it to the table in Parliament. That way, kids can sort of float near the bed edge safely, and Members can have the satisfaction of knowing that the Motions the table will be treated with due gravity. The whole thing could be handled by the Dept. of Weights and Measures. Problem solved, please go about your business. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 872854 | 2010-04-04 23:06:00 | Or, my prefered solution.. It's about time all "back country" huts were removed/burnt down. This would sort out the men from the boys, and also stop the overcrowding tourist rot and degradation of the National/Forest Parks. This way it would also prevent such injuries as falling off a ladder.. It would also prevent people dying from hypothermia.......by removing the imperative to reach a hut, because they are not carrying a tent.. and failing to do so...:banana Edit: first of all start with the "front country" huts and tourist lodges :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 872855 | 2010-04-04 23:07:00 | Or, my prefered solution.. It's about time all "back country" huts were removed/burnt down. This would sort out the men from the boys, and also stop the overcrowding tourist rot and degradation of the National/Forest Parks. This way it would also prevent such injuries as falling off a ladder.. It would also prevent people dying from hypothermia.......by removing the imperative to reach a hut, because they are not carrying a tent.. and failing to do so...:banana Great Idea, I much prefer my tent to overcrowded huts, I tend to use huts more in winter as the crowds have gone away |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 872856 | 2010-04-04 23:41:00 | From PC to Apocalypse in one sentence and with a veiled reference as well, great stuff R2x1. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 872857 | 2010-04-04 23:42:00 | they did the huts up some years back. got nice stainless benchs, ladders on the bunks, barriers to stop you rolling off them, non-slip on the decks, god forbid actual down piping and storm water pipes ! nice stainless fitting etc. all absolutely unnecessarily of course. problem is any hut that was going cost to much to do up, instead of being left for emergency shelter, was ripped out at great cost. theres been one or two deaths because they went to seek shelter and the huts where no longer there! |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 872858 | 2010-04-05 00:06:00 | I have many fond memories of staying in Kiwi Hut in the Orongoronga Valley. You didn't have a show of falling out of a bunk. They were made out of Manuka Poles, lashed together with sacking to lie on. The sacking sagged and it was like being in a hammock. |
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