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Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:36 pm
by missfixit70
Just had a text from the BongoMeister, Lickhill have banned the use of Chinese lanterns this year following a barn fire.
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:35 pm
by thedogsbollox
missfixit70 wrote:Just had a text from the BongoMeister, Lickhill have banned the use of Chinese lanterns this year following a barn fire.
Lovely.
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:10 am
by williefixit
They have also fallen on electricity substations, where their wire frames have caused a flash-over and interuption to the electricity supply to thousands of electricity users.
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:14 am
by scanner
The wire frames also get eaten by Cows and Sheep etc.
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:37 am
by crazy uncle gray g
They panic me just been released
That's why I drink cider, to calm me down
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 8:59 am
by Poohbear
missfixit70 wrote:Just had a text from the BongoMeister, Lickhill have banned the use of Chinese lanterns this year following a barn fire.
Good. They do more harm than most people realise.
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:56 pm
by Diplomat
Modern day equivalent of fireships.
Probably derived from some ancient Chinese weapon of mass crop destruction.
Frank
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:51 pm
by dobby
Kids got us two for fathers day
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:53 pm
by mister munkey
Its such a shame that the Health & Safety Brigade have so much clout these days.
I may well stay in bed for the next 50 years, just to be on the safe side.
Anyone got a large tub of bed-sore cream.
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:15 am
by Chris&Gem
Apart from all the danger and that, I like um
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:52 am
by dobby
Risk assessment needed first though
mister munkey wrote:Its such a shame that the Health & Safety Brigade have so much clout these days.
I may well stay in bed for the next 50 years, just to be on the safe side.
Anyone got a large tub of bed-sore cream.
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:04 am
by Muzorewa
Have you seen that Henman Hill (or Murray Hill) has been cordoned off in case anyone slips on the grass
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... Mount.html
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:48 am
by alant54
mister munkey wrote:Its such a shame that the Health & Safety Brigade have so much clout these days.
I may well stay in bed for the next 50 years, just to be on the safe side.
Anyone got a large tub of bed-sore cream.
Unfortunately these days..Health and safety has moved away from common sense and experience into where there's blame...there could be a claim....so it is a case of cover your a**e in the event of anything that could go wrong and could it have been prevented...?
I won't have a rant about if H&S had been around when I was a kid but most people here will know what i mean...
Alan
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:24 am
by roofraisers
Careful there Mister Munkey, statistically more people die in bed than any where else. That doesn't sound a very safe place to me
Nigel
Re: Chinese Lanterns Banned at The Bash
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:27 pm
by Bongopoet
mister munkey wrote:Its such a shame that the Health & Safety Brigade have so much clout these days.
I may well stay in bed for the next 50 years, just to be on the safe side.
Anyone got a large tub of bed-sore cream.
I can send you some anti thromboletic stockings to help prevent deep vein thrombosis if you are lying around in bed that long
