Conkers present serious Health & Safety issues according to council (From York Press)
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Conkers present serious Health & Safety issues according to council
9:49am Tuesday 12th October 2010 in News
MY GO!: Terrington Hall pupils Harry Lister, left, and Josh Gath, both aged seven, play conkers in the school library
HEALTH and safety chiefs may have concluded that conkers present a serious threat of injury, but a school near York is not letting that prevent it holding a good, old-fashioned conker championship.
Council bosses in Suffolk have put a sign on a horse-chestnut tree warning walkers to beware falling conkers, while in Nottingham, the local authority has removed all the conkers from a tree after a girl was hurt by a falling branch.
However, pupils at Terrington Hall School, Terrington, are taking part in an inter-house conker championship, with a scientific twist to the fun.
Comments(13)
yawn..
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10:50am Tue 12 Oct 10
Geoffers
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11:02am Tue 12 Oct 10
long distance depressive
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12:02pm Tue 12 Oct 10
old_geezer
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12:15pm Tue 12 Oct 10
BUT life's a balancing act, and the occasional accident shouldn't stop this traditional pastime.
invisibleman
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12:29pm Tue 12 Oct 10
Oh god have I just started something LOL
mystic_genius
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12:29pm Tue 12 Oct 10
old_geezer wrote:People get injured doing everything in life - does that mean everything should get banned? No. Get a grip. Kids get hurt, it's not front page news, it's life. These morons who impliment these things must have an utterly joyless life.
A small girl was seriously injured by something thrown up to bring down conkers. There have been eye injuries in conker fights. BUT life's a balancing act, and the occasional accident shouldn't stop this traditional pastime.
shiftywillow
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12:47pm Tue 12 Oct 10
redr
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5:30pm Tue 12 Oct 10
GoodDoc
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5:47pm Tue 12 Oct 10
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Just because some tabloid has found a whopping one or two schools in the entire country that are avoiding it, does not make it 'political correctness gone mad', 'do-gooders', 'broken Britain' or any other tosh they spoon-feed you. Conkers are still popular, as is singing baa baa black sheep. You'll all have to get enraged about something else, and start taking the press with a pinch of salt.
pedalling paul
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10:14pm Tue 12 Oct 10
invisibleman wrote:Doesn't seem to have. I found a lovely Youtube video recently, of a Punch & udy show where the Health & safety man arrivid in a hi-vis jacket. He condemned Mr Punch's stick as a dangerous weapon, got bashed with it and finally ended up in a sausage machine. The sausages were dayglo yellow as they emerged.
More people get injured cycling around York, should we ban cycling? Oh god have I just started something LOL
long distance depressive
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12:17pm Wed 13 Oct 10
pedalling paul wrote:Think there were issues re. domestic violence too, no doubt the sausages were an affront to vegetarians everywhere and the crocodile had to have a safe sanctuary created. And whoever would recognise a policeman trying to intervene and uphold the law anyway??
invisibleman wrote: More people get injured cycling around York, should we ban cycling? Oh god have I just started something LOLDoesn't seem to have. I found a lovely Youtube video recently, of a Punch & udy show where the Health & safety man arrivid in a hi-vis jacket. He condemned Mr Punch's stick as a dangerous weapon, got bashed with it and finally ended up in a sausage machine. The sausages were dayglo yellow as they emerged.
Hannible Lecter
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1:16pm Wed 13 Oct 10
ouseswimmer says...
9:58am Tue 12 Oct 10
A harmless game enjoyed by many. Perhaps the Council officer always lost at conkers and is tryign to get his revenge?