Can you believe it?

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  1. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    See? If Seelöwe had worked the at least parking meters would be in German! :D
     
  2. beeza

    beeza Senior Member

    Don't worry Spidge, we'll be all running around in a Burkah soon.

    David
     
  3. Peter Clare

    Peter Clare Very Senior Member

    BBC News - Man refused bus ride in Dorset over tin of fence paint

    Man refused bus ride in Dorset over tin of fence paint



    A bus driver told a passenger he could not board his vehicle because he was carrying a tin of fence paint.

    Brian Wakley, from Sandford in Dorset, was 10 miles (16km) from home when told he could not board the 1B Bournemouth to Poole Transdev Yellow Buses service.
    The retired office worker said he was told the £3.75 can of non-toxic green paint breached regulations.
    The company said paint was banned from being carried on to its vehicles because it could cause a mess.
    Mr Wakley, who said he was over 65, said: "It's absolutely diabolical. Millions of people rely on public transport to take home things like paint and DIY equipment.

    'Against regulations'
    "It was a five-litre sealed plastic pot. I know it was innocuous because I took the liberty of contacting the manufacturer.
    "The driver said to me, 'I'm sorry you can't come aboard because you are carrying a banned substance'.
    "I said, 'It's a can of paint'. He said it was against regulations."
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    He added: "You see yobs on buses eff-ing and blinding and yet here I am, a pensioner, carrying some paint. It makes me feel like my human rights have been violated."
    After being left at the roadside, Mr Wakley called a friend to take him to his home near Wareham.
    He later called the company and it confirmed its policy.
    Ed Wills, Yellow Buses' head of operations, said: "I recognise that the issue of carrying paint on buses is something some people may think is a minor issue but, unfortunately, over the years we have experienced instances of paint being accidentally dropped by passengers and spilling over the floor, on to seats and splashing other passengers."
    He added: "Rules can be open to interpretation and we rely on our drivers to exercise discretion when dealing with issues such as this.
    "In this case the driver clearly felt that by allowing this gentleman on the bus with the paint it would breach our Conditions of Carriage."
     
  4. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: Teachers leave boy of 5 stuck up a tree for 1 hour

    TEACHERS LEAVE BOY OF 5 STUCK UP A TREE FOR 1 HOUR

    A DAREDEVIL five-year-old boy who got stuck up a tree at school had to stay there for nearly an hour – because health and safety rules banned teachers from rescuing him.


    Instead, the staff retreated indoors to “observe from a distance”.
    The stranded pupil was finally rescued from the 20ft tree when passerby Kim Barrett spotted his plight and helped him down.
    But instead of being thanked, Kim, 38, landed in trouble after the school reported her to the police.
    Yesterday, the bizarre health and safety policy at The Manor School in ­Melksham, Wilts, was blasted as “pathetic”.
    Alex Deane, director of campaigning group Big Brother Watch, said: “Any teacher faced with a crying five-year- old stuck up a tree should ignore the pathetic guidelines.
    “The poor woman who helped the child should be given a medal, not prosecuted. The school should feel ashamed for reporting her.
    “Usually stories like this are the fault of stupid rules. This time, it’s down to both stupid rules and stupid staff.”
    Good Samaritan Kim, a part-time cleaner, said she was “shocked” when she was visited by a police community support officer and given a verbal warning for “anti-social behaviour”.
    Kim said: “I felt really angry because I felt I had saved the school and this boy from something that could have been far worse, but instead of thanking me I was under investigation.
    “He was at least 6ft off the ground, but someone taller than me could easily have reached in from the pavement and plucked him off the branch.
    “I am a mother myself and I find it a bit ridiculous that the school’s policy is to leave a child up a tree.
    “I would be very angry if this happened to my child.” A letter sent to Kim by Wiltshire Council told her: “You may well have acted initially out of concern for the safety of the child but any such concerns should have been raised with a member of staff.
    “You subsequently behaved in a verbally aggressive manner to a member of staff.”
    Headteacher Beverley Martin said: “The safety of our pupils is our priority and we would like to make it clear that this child was being observed at all times during this very short incident.
    “Like other schools whose premises include wooded areas, our policy when a child climbs a tree is for staff to observe the situation from a distance so the child does not get distracted and fall.
    “We would strongly urge members of the public not to climb over a padlocked gate to approach children as their motives are not clear to staff.”
    A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said Kim was given a warning for “anti-social behaviour”.
    He said: “It was simply a matter of a visit and a verbal warning.”
    A spokesperson for the Health and Safety Executive said: “HSE expects schools to exercise a common sense approach to health and safety.”
     
  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Seems there is more to the story than at first thought...
    Passerby reported to police after trying to help schoolboy from tree | UK news | The Guardian


    Barrett, who works as a part-time cleaner, claimed the boy was in the tree for 45 minutes. The school insisted it was less than 10.
    The school disputes Barrett's observation of the incident. It concedes that the child had been in the tree but says he got down before she reached
    him. It also claims Barrett climbed over a padlocked gate to get into the school.
     
  6. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Better to leave him on the tree till he got to 18 years of age and no longer a child. These people should be pushed off a cliff.
     
  7. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

  8. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    ""It was one of the more popular teachers who played the victim, I don't think there would have been as much concern if it was one or two of the others." :huh: :lol:
     
  9. beeza

    beeza Senior Member

    Well, we have all heard of the old cliche Än apple a day keeps the doctor away"

    Now it has been changed to a "Ham sandwich a day"çause all the doctors here are

    muslim.

    David
     
  10. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Well, we have all heard of the old cliche Än apple a day keeps the doctor away"

    Now it has been changed to a "Ham sandwich a day"çause all the doctors here are

    muslim.

    David

    Thats strange......My mate, who I crew an Ambulance with is a devote Muslim and I eat ham and bacon sandwiches in front of him on occassion and he doesn't mind. Infact only today I ate two, yes two!, Scotch Eggs in the bus with him sat next to me.

    Cheers
    Andy
     
  11. wtid45

    wtid45 Very Senior Member

    Thats strange......My mate, who I crew an Ambulance with is a devote Muslim and I eat ham and bacon sandwiches in front of him on occassion and he doesn't mind. Infact only today I ate two, yes two!, Scotch Eggs in the bus with him sat next to me.

    Cheers
    Andy
    Funny you should mention food and Musilms. I speak to a woman at my Daughters swiming lesson who eats food according to the Muslim faith so I said you have never had a proper English breakfast.......... no she replied cant eat pork, so no sausage or bacon............. black pudding is out straight away that leaves eggs she can eat them............and Drew two Scotch eggs you greedy.......:lol:
     
  12. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    That was just my starter !
     
  13. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    Of course I had to google Scotch Egg, right? Looks like "Murder by Cholesterol" but really ought to be delicious :)

    The problem you're discussing relates to Halal as well as to Kosher. But:

    A priest and a rabbi are sitting next to each other on an airplane. After a while the priest turns to the rabbi and asks, "Is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?"

    The rabbi responds, "Yes, that is still one of our beliefs."

    The priest then asks, "Have you ever eaten pork?"

    To which the rabbi replies, "Yes, on one occasion I did succumb To temptation and tasted a ham sandwich."

    The priest nodded in understanding and went on with his reading. A while later, the rabbi spoke up and asked the priest, "Father, is it still a requirement of your church that you remain celibate?"

    The priest replied, "Yes, that is still very much a part of our faith."

    The rabbi then asked him, "Father, have you ever fallen to the temptations of the flesh?"

    The priest replied, "Yes, rabbi, on one occasion I was weak and broke with my faith."

    The rabbi nodded understandingly. He was silent for about five minutes, and then he said,

    "Beats the hell out of a ham sandwich, doesn't it?"
     
  14. dovermarine

    dovermarine Senior Member

    Thats strange......My mate, who I crew an Ambulance with is a devote Muslim and I eat ham and bacon sandwiches in front of him on occassion and he doesn't mind. Infact only today I ate two, yes two!, Scotch Eggs in the bus with him sat next to me.

    Cheers
    Andy
    Thank God they were,nt pickled eggs!!
     
  15. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

  16. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

  17. Za Rodinu

    Za Rodinu Hot air manufacturer

    BBC News - Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women

    Promiscuous women are responsible for earthquakes, a senior Iranian cleric has said.

    Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi told worshippers in Tehran last Friday that they had to stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.

    "Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes," he said.

    Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade. Mr Sedighi was delivering a sermon on the need for a "general repentance" by Iranians.

    "What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes," he said.

    'Disappoint God'

    Young Iranians sometimes push the boundaries of how they can dress, showing hair under their headscarves or wearing tight fitting clothes.

    Mr Sedighi also referred to violence following last year's elections, which occurred when thousands of - mostly young - Iranians protested against the result, as a "political earthquake".

    "Now if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power. So lets not disappoint God."

    More than 25,000 people died when a powerful earthquake hit the ancient town of Bam in 2003. Seismologists have warned that the Iranian capital Tehran is situated on a large number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating quake soon. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said many of Tehran's 12 million inhabitants should relocate. There are plans to build a purpose built new capital near Qom.
     
  18. KevinBattle

    KevinBattle Senior Member

    How heartening it is to find another Country where the loonies appear to be running the asylum. With luck in a few weeks we'll have ours out on the streets, not where they can make the UK a laughing stock...
     
  19. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

  20. geoff501

    geoff501 Achtung Feind hört mit

     

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