<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread " Safety First!!"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/54.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Safety First!! I'm all for the aplication of comman sense when it comes to safety, don't point a loaded wepon at your head,don't drive blindfolded,keep your genitals away from power tools etc,but does anyone else belive that people have gone totaly overboard concerning "safety".
I have seen parents who are,IMO, rasing emotional cripples becuase they treat their children as though they are made of glass and will shatter if they take a tumble,and people who handle cups of coffee from McDonalds as one might handle a grenade.
So, is it just me? or is the world becoming a "safer place" at the cost of our backbone?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129471.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129471.page GMT Safety First!!
For example, children aren't allowed to play outside or walk to school, because of paedo panic. This prevents them learning streetwise skills.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129554.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129554.page GMT Safety First!!
sA]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129564.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129564.page GMT Safety First!!
Kilkrazy wrote:You are right to some degree.

For example, children aren't allowed to play outside or walk to school, because of paedo panic. This prevents them learning streetwise skills.


This,in part,is what I'm on about.
When I was a kid ( lord,now I sound like a sterotypical "adult") we played out in the streets constantly,ran,jumped off of things that were much to high to jump from,got hurt etc,and the same was true for most of the neighborhoods I encounterd then,they swarmed with children,and,to the best of my knowledge,none of us were ever scooped up by some pervert in a van.
We were tought to avoid strangers,stick to areas we knew and practice comman sense and then allowed to go off and be kids,now I see mostly empty neighborhoods and children on leashes.
I've done a bit of research,and honestly havn't yeilded any information that has shown a "signifigant" increase in child abduction by strangers in the past few decades,so why the hysteria?
Now,I'm a Father,I love my children and I belive I have tought my children well concerning "avoiding abduction",they know not to get close to people they don't know,stay in groups,play close to home etc,but I honestly do my best to avoid making them terrified to set foot outside and enjoy being a kid.


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smiling Assassin wrote:Parents aren't allowed to supervise their own children playing in a playpark over here, they might be a paedophile.

sA


I was actualy stoped by the police walking my Daughter back from a playground close to our home,she had been playing there,and I walked down to tell her it was time to come home for lunch,as we walked up to our house a police car pulled up and we were both questioned by the officers for several minutes.
Though I knw they were "just doing their job",it made me shake my head to think that we have reached a leval of paranioa in wich a Father can't walk his daughter home with out people assuming the worst.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129582.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129582.page GMT Re: Safety First!!
Whilst I can see the need and the sense behind trying to prevent accidents and injuries, I do wonder how much of this is prompted by the fact that if you triped over a box in work 15 years ago then the boss would have said "it's your own fault, look where you are going", now you can take him to court and claim your £20,000 for a spraigned wrist and emotional trauma.

The thing that makes me laugh about the Paedo situation is that in the same news programme you will have a report on a "disgusting 65 year old predator who lured a helpless 15 year old girl to his home for sex" followed by a report on "a vicious 15 year old hoodie thug who battered a 65 year old frail pensioner for his wallet" It's almost like we are being told "It's very wrong to have sex with children but if you do have to, be careful as they may have a knife on them"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129732.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129732.page GMT Safety First!!
Not saying that all skaters vandalize but around my parts most of the skaters seem to be HS age so I don't think it's out of fear for the safety of the skaters. Most of it is to prevent disruption of traffic and in some more professional businesses like banks and whatnot it prevents people from getting the wrong impression.

I mean, if your business allows groups of kids/young adults who dress to look like hoodlums gather in the parking lot and impede traffic and parking and generally make customers or potential customers feel uneasy it's not going to make your business look very "people" friendly.

I, for one don't mind the skaters in the parking lot. I've gotten to run over and destroy a fair share of skateboards in the past 5 years. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129743.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129743.page GMT Safety First!!
For example, in order to cover themselves in the event of a technicality, packets of Peanuts, Cashew Nuts, Brazil Nuts etc, actually have to state that they, you guessed it....contain nuts.

Blame the triggerhappy Compo arsholes!

As for over protective parents, blame the scare mongering gutter press. There hasn't been a sudden explosion in Paedophile activity, it's just paedo headlines sell lots of Newspapers. That, and over the past couple of decades, the population has become less of a community. When I were a nipper (1980's) I'd play in the Neuk (Scottish Close) with the other kids. There would always be one of the Mums or Dads keeping an eye on us. Not out of fear we'd do something stupid or some Rastapaedopimpdrugpushergaylord (Copyright the Daily Bastard) would come and bum us, but in case we skinned our knees falling off a bike, or if the ball got kicked out into the road. Thanks again to the Daily Nazi and its ilk, community has been shattered, as it insists nobody (but itself of course) is to be trusted, so nobody is trusted. Pathetic isn't it?

Freedom of the Press should not mean Freedom to talk utter bollocks to shift a few more copies.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129963.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1129963.page GMT Safety First!!
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Sadly, Health and Safety bollocks seems to be largely related to how readily the population sue.

For example, in order to cover themselves in the event of a technicality, packets of Peanuts, Cashew Nuts, Brazil Nuts etc, actually have to state that they, you guessed it....contain nuts.

Blame the triggerhappy Compo arsholes!

As for over protective parents, blame the scare mongering gutter press. There hasn't been a sudden explosion in Paedophile activity, it's just paedo headlines sell lots of Newspapers. That, and over the past couple of decades, the population has become less of a community. When I were a nipper (1980's) I'd play in the Neuk (Scottish Close) with the other kids. There would always be one of the Mums or Dads keeping an eye on us. Not out of fear we'd do something stupid or some Rastapaedopimpdrugpushergaylord (Copyright the Daily Bastard) would come and bum us, but in case we skinned our knees falling off a bike, or if the ball got kicked out into the road. Thanks again to the Daily Nazi and its ilk, community has been shattered, as it insists nobody (but itself of course) is to be trusted, so nobody is trusted. Pathetic isn't it?

Freedom of the Press should not mean Freedom to talk utter bollocks to shift a few more copies.


See,this is what I too atribute alot of the "safety at all cost" craze to,a combination of a sue happy society and media "scare mongering",it honestly sadens me that comman sense has taken a back seat to this nonsense.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130053.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130053.page GMT Re: Safety First!! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130159.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130159.page GMT Safety First!! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130853.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130853.page GMT Safety First!!
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Oh, and don't forget Parents, in order to develop something even vaguely resembling an immune system, little jimmy actually needs to be exposed to germs and that. Thus, getting paranoid with your anti-bacterial stuff you are setting them up for an adult life blighted by illness. Smart move, numbnuts!

Bingo! Most modern allergies are being developed by inmune systems answering to wrong stimulus due to not being used during childhood.

M.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130908.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1130908.page GMT Re: Safety First!!
Jumping off the deck to get to the ground faster then the stairs? Check.

See if i can get across the street faster then that car? Check.

Course, my parents actually had a little thing called common sense. Let me go out and get sick so it wouldn't happen again,
watched me and my little buddies when we played. All that good stuff.

And, thankfully, common sense has been, for the most part, passed onto me.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1131046.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/266494/1131046.page GMT