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Paper napkins being handed out with meals-on-wheels in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, were suspended by the council after fears that pensioners and disabled people might choke on them

After a woman caught her foot in the new doors at BBC Birmingham the corporation issued a memo “Revolving Security Door User Instructions”, advising staff on how to use a revolving door

Police called to investigate a broken stained-glass window at a church in Rochdale in March 2005 refused to inspect the damage because they did not have specialist “ladder training”

Moscow State Circus was warned in July 2003 that any acrobat performing at a height above that of the average stepladder would have to wear a hard hat or risk losing its insurance cover

Plans to chop down 20 horse chestnut trees were announced by Norwich City Council because it claimed that passers-by risked head injuries from sticks thrown up by children to knock down conkers

Gardeners working for Cheltenham council, in Gloucestershire, were banned from planting pansies under town centre trees because workers digging with trowels risked spraining their wrists in the root-filled soil

Take care.

Gordon.

Sign of the times...with so much Litigation going on, it's no wonder that these stupid rules and regulations appear.

The first thing i thougt of when i saw this thread was Tufty the squirrel,:wah:

remember the Tufty club?

I am thick, I am dumb

'Cos I'm a citizen.

I need rules to care for me

From the local council men

And women who can't help me

Without braces to protect them

From us, the citizens who

Are bound to cause 'em mayhem.



'Cos we are nutters,

We ain't gotta clue,

And they care that

They don't hurt you

And don't sue 'em

For a bob or two.