In a news report I have just read, actors in the play Jack and the Beanstalk may no longer climb more than 1.3 metres up the beanstalk unless they have fall arrestors attached.
Some time ago the Russian Circus trapeze artists were told that they may not perform in the UK unless they wore hard hats, as they were working at heights.
In the UK a town council decided that for Guy Fawkes celebrations a real bonfire was too hazardous. They arranged a cone of television monitors with heaters in front for authenticity. All this was safely behind barriers to prevent injury to spectators. Speakers played recorded fire crackling sounds at safe decibel levels. The pictures on the monitors were of a bonfire.
Tank crews in the British Army are being told that the use of a metal hammer to knock in the link pins on tracks being repaired is unsafe as sparks may be produced and a rubber hammer should rather be used. Whats next, a hot work permit to fire a rifle?
And now the British Ministry of Defence says that Prince Harry’s comments are inappropriate in a modern army. I wonder if being killed is still allowed in a modern army? Or should soldiers refuse to die after being shot?
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