volvojack wrote:So as I understand it you are saying that you let your children Trespass a farmers land and then climb an Oak tree without a safety harness and steal Horse chestnuts. you then aid abet this misdemeanour by roasting the said chestnuts until they are rock hard. after you admit drilling a hole in and threading a string through you then let your child stand opposite another child armed with a similar object. throughout all of this it seems there is no safety officer present. The next stage will take some believing, You let your child hold his solid chestnut out in front of his face / body whilst the other child aims his similar projectile at the other one. at no time has either child worn safety helmets, face visors or body armour, no health and safety officer on site this reckless and extremely dangerous it seems continues until one of these objects ( strangely named Conkers) is broken or one of the children sustains a serious injury and is taken to Hospital for treatment or perhaps surgery for life threatening damage. Again at the time No medical staff were present.
Now on to the next.... You say you let your child play outside unsupervised with a number of Glass balls he describes as "Tors"
If you let your children climb oak trees to get conkers, you need an arborist, not H&S
Apologies.
Forgot to mention that it seems these children were from the York Road area and as such visited the Shaftesbury Cinema every Saturday morning 6d. matinee where after watching Tarzan and Jane swinging through the jungle they then climbed the Oak tree, collected twigs and small branches which then helped them to swing over to the Aesculus Hippocastanum quite high up where the best Conkers hide, (These being notoriously shy
