words fail...
Posted on 01/19/2008 4:21:02 AM PST by yankeedame
Last Updated: Friday, 18 January 2008, 13:10 GMT
A Cornish village drama group has had to register a toy gun with the police to comply with health and safety rules. Carnon Downs drama group in Cornwall have also had to keep their plastic cutlasses and wooden swords locked up for the pantomime, Robinson Crusoe.
Producers of the show called the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) rules "farcical".
A spokesman for the HSE said the rules were designed to make risks "sensibly managed".
"It gets a bit farcical when you are dealing with plastic swords,"Linda Barker
The climax of the show is a fight in which actors use replica 4ft-foot long plastic cutlasses.
There is also a toy gun which produces a flag saying "Bang".
The directors contacted police after receiving advice from the HSE and the National Operatic and Dramatic Association.
The HSE have a page on their website called Entertainment Information Sheet 20 which lays down strict rules for the handling of guns, swords and other weapons on set.
Drama group co-director Linda Barker said: "The cutlasses count as weapons even though they are replicas and made of plastic and apparently they could be mistaken for real ones.
"Our only gun was a panto pistol which produces a flag with the word bang on it.
"Our local police at Truro were fantastic and they have registered the gun, the two plastic cutlasses and our six wooden swords."
She added: "It gets a bit farcical when you are dealing with plastic swords. It is not as if anyone is likely to be scared by them."
Neighbourhood beat officer Pc Nigel Hyde said: "We have been informed and made a note.
"It seems a bit unusual but other forms of replica weapons have been used to carry out crimes and the consequences have been serious."
A spokesman for the HSE said: "We do not want to stop people putting on pantos or having fun as long as the risks are sensible managed."
What can be said that hasn’t already been said about the Brits? About how sheeplike a citizenry can get? About how they seem to beg to be buggered by their socialist masters?
And what can be said about our own country that hasn’t already been said? About how the leftists amongst us, 40%-50% strong, or more, are yearning for the life of British sheep?
I saw recently in the news that some people are waiting up to TWO YEARS for a dental appointment in Britain. Who cares? Not the National Health Service. Not when the sheep aren’t even allowed to have unregistered plastic swords. Who cares how much indignity gets ladled on the heads of the British sheep? Who’s going to do anything about it?
Not the sheep themselves. That’s for sure.
Britannia, what in the blue blazes has happened to you...?????
Having had considerable opportunity to observe first-hand first-hand the bravery of the British people under fire in World War II, it sickens me to see the present day, fluffball leadership doing their repulsive best to make a bunch of puling yellowbellies out of them.
“Our local police at Truro were fantastic and they have registered the gun, the two plastic cutlasses and our six wooden swords.” ??? Do the initials “BITE ME” mean anything to these people?
Registering a plastic gun is an idea than can only come from a sick, manipulative mind.
“Our local police at Truro were fantastic and they have registered the gun, the two plastic cutlasses and our six wooden swords.”
Lick their boots and thank them.
words fail...
What's next, cricket bats?
Elvis Costello lyrics come to mind:
He stands to be insulted
and pays for the priveledge
Just one look at the weapons on display at my rural PA home would drive most British LE nuts.
Plastic forks and spoons?
Heh, we have the weapon that my GGG grandfather carried into battle against them on our wall.
I would just take them for a walk through Tombstone. (Tombstone being about 15 miles east of my place.)
Apparently, they have managed to actually create the real thing...
I build replicas—good iron,steel, etc— AND SHOOT THEM.
It looks like they would be all I would need today to defeat these Brits with their registered plastic swords ‘n all.
I understand; I have a replica two band Zouve rifle from my reenactor days. I love to triple load and shoot it from the hip. It’s like a personal mortar.
Maybe the crimes were also carried out by replica criminals.
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“I would just take them for a walk through Tombstone. (Tombstone being about 15 miles east of my place.)”
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No Les no more?
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