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SANTA has become the latest victim of barmy
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health and safety killjoys after a council banned his traditional sleigh tour.
Chiefs in Newton Aycliffe, Co Durham, say it breaks
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a strict rule against people standing on a moving vehicle. Here NADINE LINGE looks at other crackers “elf and safety” bans...
Last month, Bridgend
Town Council, south
Wales, ruled children under
11 would be turned away from a Remembrance Day parade due to “adverse weather” last year.
In 2016, students at East
Anglia University were told not to throw mortar boards in case someone got injured. Instead they were told to pay to get the caps photoshopped into pictures.
Punch & Judy man Glyn
Edwards was told characters hitting each other with sticks could “offend the vulnerable”. He got his revenge with two jobsworth puppets wearing hi-vis.
Yo-yos and conkers have been banned in some school playgrounds in case children get injured.
One hotel banned toilet brushes from en-suite rooms because of health and safety legislation.
In 2011, kite flying was banned at Bridlington – despite it having hosted the British Kitesurfing
Championships. A council
xxxchief blamed “large kites, propelled at high speeds”. Families could only take part in a plate-spinning game on Mel and Sue’s Generation Game this year if they wore goggles. Residents in south London flats were banned from hanging washing on their balconies for fear items would fall on passers-by. Butlin’s banned dodgem cars from bumping into each other to avoid whiplash. In 2010, Royal Mail told postal workers in Devon not to deliver to cobbled streets during wet weather. Stagecoach apologised after a heavily pregnant woman was ordered off a bus in rain because she had tins of paint – in case they leaked and caused a slip hazard. Two years ago, British soldiers were told they couldn’t fire real mortars in training as the sound would breach the 137-decibel limit. In 2016, bin collectors in Colchester were banned from wearing Christmas hats in case drivers got distracted.
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