$120 permit for frisbee permit

WTF

A council in Victoria has banned a group of teenagers from playing frisbee in a local park until they buy a $120 permit, the Herald Sun reports.

According to officials at Melbourne's Glen Eira City Council, frisbee is considered a sport and as such the group needs a special permit if they want to keep playing in the local park.

Yoav Silverstein, 17, said he and a group of friends regularly caught up to play and they were shocked when a council officer told them they needed a permit.

Silverstein's father said the teenagers had been given a choice to buy a one-off permit for $120 or a six-month permit for more than $300.

"It just seems exorbitant at any price," he said.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8546949

C'mon fellas whole story maybe?

They are running a regular event there, how many people and how often?

I get the feeling this "playing regularly" could well be a a whole bunch of people same day every week or something and maybe somebody has complained. No council is ever gonna do this for one-off or casual use (duh)

The link no longer works?


The Australian says it was "most Fridays"

If 10 blokes played a footy game in a local park to the exclusion of everyone else every Fri arvo, then I'd expect the council to do something

Same again here in the nanny state with flying kites in parks... We used to make all sorts of kites in primary school and fly them on the oval, down the park, where ever, never a problem.
www.heraldsun.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes

Can't have a fit healthy wealthy aware society we might work out what they are up to stay at home people and watch the tube.......

Councils really are damned either way sometimes, and people being the tools they are - are barely capable of regulating themselves. Watching morons playing cricket in a crowded park and using a real ball (hard)........you begin to understand the regulations.

Yes and my Council banned ball games in Park next to pool because of safety concerns ,also fenced off pool for safety even though there was a a river 19 metres away , and then wanted Boot camp groups to pay for park use when they already had Active groups run by council .

Hey Cisco for one who claims the media doesn't fool ya, I think "freedom and playing not allowed" is a bit WTF? I think you are still allowed to throw a frisbee mate, and don't let NineMSN tell you otherwise.

So Cisco and the rest of the crew who believe this media beat up.....

I think we agree that 2 guys can throw a frisbee in the park tomorrow.

However, I think we probably agree that 100 people could not throw frisbees for 8 hrs every single day in the same park. Would not be fair on the dog watchers or bird walkers or whatever the fkn non-watersports people do to get their jollies. Weirdos. But I digress...

So where do we draw the line? Somebody has to draw it..... and no matter where the line is drawn, somebody will sook about it.



Given all the stuff going on in the world, who.gives.a.fk

???

I seen one throw a brick threw a bus window.
Btw it didn't come back.
Note: This comment should not be percieved as being racist - just an observation.

When I was a little kid, my older brothers and I used to pool our funds and buy model rockets. The local park became Cape Canaveral and we would regularly celebrate another successful mission into space (the space of someones back yard). In my excitement at the prospect of sending a plastic soldier into space I egged them on to add an extra 'motor' to our piss-ant rocket. We had our own version of Columbia and I let the cat out of the bag. Mission Control (Dad & Mum) mothballed our space program for good with a ban on space flight funding for ages afterwards, the proceeds were redirected to compensate our neighbor who's window was completely phucked.

You cannot even play golf with a training ball in a park nowadays.

Nope, just me and my two brothers and occasionally my sister. Which was probably for the best as if we had more aspiring astronauts and $ the neighborhood probably would have ended up like the Gaza Strip.

I read somewhere that the steady increase in the number of 'boot camps' run by personal trainers has caught the attention of some councils who want to start charging a fee for the PT's to use 'public' facilities.

How long before those unfortunate enough or so time poor that they have to surf Trigg or Scarborough have to pay to park at the beach?

Wasn't the article from an eastern states paper? Why do I sometimes think that some of these threads are a bit like watching TT or ACA?

www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes

VB MAN said...

Everytime I return to Australia, be it from England, Europe, Asia, mid east wherever, the first thing that hits me is the rules. We have way too many rules and laws and safety fears, that nowadays it's almost illegal to walk across a street without wearing HI VIS clothing.




It is because of compulsory voting. Those that dont work, those that are on benefits, those that do work but are brain washed unionist/socialists and those that want to run others lives that vote for left leaning parties including the Labor Party. They have themselves to blame because the Labour Party philosophically wants to intervene with laws and then run corrupt closed shops with their bully boys.

If all the poor souls that have been forced to wear Hi Vis new a little history and literature they would understand the symbolic nature of their prison uniform that they wear.

Ahh the golden years in Oz have come and gone and the slide down the slippery slope is getting steeper and faster.

I pray to Allah.