It’s health and safety gone mad.

[Beebo]

Guess where I am.
The council sucking the fun out of a rite of passage for everyone who ever visited.

 

[classic33]

"Nelson, erect on his pillar, watching the world go by"

 

[Andy in Germany]

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Guess where I am.
The council sucking the fun out of a right of passage for everyone who ever visited.

That just says you can't fall off*. Climbing is okay.

*or possibly have a rodeo using Lions

 

[captain nemo1701]

Unfortunately, we live in a litigation obsessed culture (I blame US-style cable TV ads). This is the authorities just covering their rears in case some twonk does just that, falls, injured etc & blames council. Personally speaking, anyone who goes up and sits on one, then falls and is either injured or killed, that's just their own fault & could be seen as evolution at work, weeding out the 'I am an idiot' gene from our DNA. Go and take a look at the Darwin Awards for further info.

I would also recommend the very funny Armstrong & Miller sketch about an accident claims hotline for actors who injure themselves while filming accident recreations for insurance claim lines......

 

[booze and cake]

And you've not been able to play in the fountains since 2005, as I found out when I passed by there a year ago: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-bike-in-front-of-some-water-pictures.233186/post-5235203. Outrageous!

You can even get a £50 fine for feeding the pigeons, but they can still pooh on you for free. And yet this is still classed as an attraction, it beggars belief

 

[Markymark]

Perhaps people don’t realise quite how high, hard to sit on and slippery the lions are. Perhaps so many people try to do it and the injury levels are so high it’s worth pointing out that you really shouldn’t as it’s dangerous. And finally, perhaps because most visitors to TS are not native English speakers that a clear visual image is the best way to communicate this.

Alternatively, blah blah Daily Mail ill thought out moan it’s flippin health and safety nonsense.

 

[Kajjal]

If I want to ride my lion in public I will. It’s very useful for getting through traffic and I have never had a parking ticket.

 

[ColinJ]

I made a jokey remark about 'Health and Safety gone mad' on a ride with @Littgull once, not realising that that was his field of expertise. He soon put me straight with some horrific stories of what can go wrong when people don't take H&S seriously!

So, yes - spoiling the fun of young drunks climbing onto the lions, but saving their parents the trauma of having police officers knocking at the door in the middle of the night to give them tragic news?

(Not that anyone who wants to climb one of the lions will take any notice of the warnings!)

 

[Beebo]

Stop ruining my thread with your intelligent comments.

I work in insurance so am well aware of the issues, it just makes me sad to see this sort of thing.

It is fairly obvious to anyone that the lions are not safe to climb, but that’s half the fun.

Take it at your own risk, don’t expect any compensation if you do injure yourself.

 

[User6179]

Perhaps people don’t realise quite how high, hard to sit on and slippery the lions are.

You fell off it!?

 

[Markymark]

You fell off it!?

It was me that tamed the lions they were designed on.

 

[Crackle]

They are quite big and slippery looking

I used to sit in the paws of the St George's hall Lions waiting for the bus home from school. I don't think I could get up there anymore without a ladder.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I love the fact they think people will read it, let alone work it out..

 

[User6179]

It was me that tamed the lions they were designed on.

 

[Levo-Lon]

It was me that tamed the lions they were designed on.

Any H&E I need to know about in Southwick.. I going to have a look around on Saturday.. Assuming people aren't glued to the trains.. We need a sign for that too..