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Stupid Councils - Meddling gone too far
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 19.22
by Johnny
London Borough of Camden has decided that BBQs being used by people other the caterers is dangerous:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/arti ... article.do
http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/050307/n ... 07_01.html
From the second article:
A council letter to festival organisers said: “There are significant risks to members of the public as well as to the site itself if coal barbecues are allowed. As a policy we do not allow coal barbecues as we would be unable to police safe use of coal across our parks and open spaces.”
What rot, Barbecues have been around for years & there have been no problems, why do these overpaid idiots get to inforce these stupid laws.
Anybody had anything so stupid enforced near them of recent or are the London Boroughs really been run by twats
Re: Stupid Councils - Meddling gone too far
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 19.58
by Stuart*
Johnny wrote:London Borough of Camden has decided that BBQ's being used by people other the caterers is dangerous:
“There are significant risks to members of the public as well as to the site itself if coal barbecues are allowed. As a policy we do not allow coal barbecues as we would be unable to police safe use of coal across our parks and open spaces.”[/i]
What rot, Barbecues have been around for years & there have been no problems, why do these overpaid idiots get to inforce these stupid laws
I agree in one respect - it's frustrating. But these restrictions are brought about beacuse idiots have adopted the US style litigation system of taking councils to court because they have tripped over a crack in the pavement et al.
You would be the first to complain if your entire street's Council Tax went to an individual who sued because they were splattered by fat flying off a cooking sausage.
You are perhaps fighting about the wrong issue!
THE WORLD IS MAD - accept it!
PS: Avoid superfluous apostraphes - it's BBQs, unless you mean something that belongs to the BBQ
Re: Stupid Councils - Meddling gone too far
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 20.02
by Johnny
StuartPlymouth wrote:Johnny wrote:London Borough of Camden has decided that BBQ's being used by people other the caterers is dangerous:
“There are significant risks to members of the public as well as to the site itself if coal barbecues are allowed. As a policy we do not allow coal barbecues as we would be unable to police safe use of coal across our parks and open spaces.”[/i]
What rot, Barbecues have been around for years & there have been no problems, why do these overpaid idiots get to inforce these stupid laws
I agree in one respect - it's frustrating. But these restrictions are brought about beacuse idiots have adopted the US style litigation system of taking councils to court because they have tripped over a crack in the pavement et al.
You would be the first to complain if your entire street's Council Tax went to an individual who sued because they were splattered by fat flying off a cooking sausage.
You are perhaps fighting about the wrong issue!
THE WORLD IS MAD - accept it!
PS: Avoid superfluous apostraphes - it's BBQs, unless you mean something that belongs to the BBQ
Now corrected
The point is they have never had any problems in the past so why now?
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 20.34
by Mich
I think the real point is that the council shouldn't be worried about litigation.
If someone is injured by a BBQ in a park their action should be to sue the person responsible for it - let the court decide which party is at fault.
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 21.09
by Jamez
Is anyone surprised?
London is run by communist, left-wing, wish-washy, tree-hugging, minority-pandering, lentil-eating fascists.
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 21.45
by cdd
Jamez wrote:Is anyone surprised?
London is run by communist, left-wing, wish-washy, tree-hugging, minority-pandering, lentil-eating fascists.
I thought you'd become anti-capitalist!
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 22.31
by Jamez
cdd wrote:Jamez wrote:Is anyone surprised?
London is run by communist, left-wing, wish-washy, tree-hugging, minority-pandering, lentil-eating fascists.
I thought you'd become anti-capitalist!
I'm anti-commie, too!
I'm more capitalist than communist - both have their flaws, but out of the two capitalism wins.
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 22.58
by Jenny
Jamez wrote:Is anyone surprised?
London is run by communist, left-wing, wish-washy, tree-hugging, minority-pandering, lentil-eating fascists.
And schizophrenic too, if they're communist fascists. Still, London can drown in its own shittiness as far as I'm concerned.
Posted: Thu 03 May, 2007 23.13
by Sput
Shit, when did Channel 4 take over London?
Posted: Fri 04 May, 2007 00.08
by Jamez
Jenny wrote:Jamez wrote:Is anyone surprised?
London is run by communist, left-wing, wish-washy, tree-hugging, minority-pandering, lentil-eating fascists.
And schizophrenic too, if they're communist fascists.
I'm glad you detected my irony!
