I headed for a night session at the Cairns wakeboard park last night. It's a small business who has set up a few jumps, some rails etc on a small lake. It's been there for a few years. Usually they have some music blasting and everyone's having a good time trying out new tricks and just playing around. Last night however I noticed there was no music. Apparently the local Health and Safety team has audited the site and concluded that music makes it unsafe.
To all my fellow Australian's... can we please stop over regulating every little aspect of our society in the name of safety. Over-regulation makes the place BORING!!! There is a time and a place for Health and Safety however that does not extend to music at my local wakeboard park!!
Thank you for listening to my rant.
Kym.
I must agree with you... way too much regulation and litigation just screws up all the fun in the world.
What about the guys who have to pay a $120 fee to play frisbee in the park on a friday? Stupid stupid stupid
www.news.com.au/national/city-of-glen-eira-demands-120-permit-for-throwing-a-frisbee/news-story/e28d74657b8f284e03a3afa7399d78e8
Its a disgrace.Nanny Nation.
Mind you if it was ABBA or the Greece soundtrack they were playing then power to them.
Or the French woman who had to prover her phone bill of 14 Quadrillion Euros wasn't correct ($14,000,000,000,000,000)
It makes me sad that people with such little common sense have an equal vote in a democracy.
There's a small island up here in Cairns called Fitzroy island. On it is a patch of grass where you can pitch a couple of tents and camp for the night. It has a male and female toilet and free bbq. That's all it is. Just a very small area cleared for few people to camp.
There's sign on the toilet block which lists 17 different rules for the camp site. How on earth do you get 17 different rules for such an area.
How about this..."Please leave it as you found it"
Do we really need 16 others???
it's probably for the operators to be able to hear when someone is in trouble.
i've seen a kneeboarder dragged around 2 corners after she got tangled in the handle while the operator was busy chatting to a mate. he only stopped the cable after we yelled out to him from the bank. and that was during the day.
i'm not saying the ban is a good thing, just that things can go wrong if the monkey in charge isn't paying attention...
Cool, we got that one covered.
Smoking
I choose to smoke, but here in WA if you lite up outdoors in a public area you also gotta watch out some sniper ain't gunna take you out just for doing so.
But the guy's in thier HI VIS suits are smashing an asbestos house down around the corner, with total disregard to other locals, and having no idea of wind direction etc are pumping half the ressies full of assie.
Your government allows this
If I were to lite a cig in a government building, you would probably hear about it on the news (prob 9 or 7 ) regarding the amount of harm I "may" have inflicted upon others.
Think about it
Rant #2 outa the way
Who's up for # 3 ?
$10 says VB MAN wheres his lycra when he rides his bike with no helmet.
whilst drinking his VB with lemonade and sucking on a herbal ciggy
The problem is largely as a result of people handing over responsibility for their kids to the government or blaming the government for their problems. Something goes wrong and people sue the government instead of taking responsibility for their own actions.
Your kid commits suicide, its the government's fault for not putting proper railings on the bridge instead of the real problem.
This isn't going to change unless the laws that allow people to sue for being stupid change.
This stems from the sensibility of its not my fault. The person injures himself at a puplic park they sue the council for not making it safe not because he was naked on crack doing a triple forward front flip on a pogo stick. We are victims of our own stupid cotton ball mentality. So we get a million stupid laws and signs that tell us not to do this or that so that whoever gets sued next can say its not my fault didnt you read the sign. I believe that most people look out for themselves and do the right thing, but you have this whole minority of knuckle draging pavement apes who cant step outside without instructions walk into the first tree they try to climb back into, get a nose bleed and complain its not there fault were was the barricade. Maybe one day the majority will take the country back again from the knee jerk reacting governments and make it the country were you could actually do stuff like walk on the grass, it sure looks nice to walk on if it wasnt so damn slippery. Excuse me I am going to pull out a sign.
Agree Saffer.
My kids went to a birthday today, they could not do this or do that - there was even a trampoline there which they could not play on. All they could do is games like pass the parcel and the mom was apologetic for the types of foods she provided.
Kids can't even enjoy a birthday nowadays because people are sh!t scared of getting sued, what does that say about society.
Doctors have their hands tied in diagnosing and treating patients because they can get screwed ( these are an immigrated doctors own words not mine).
I'm thinking the next time my kids have a birthday the invited kids parents will have to sign a waiver, so their kids can have some fun.
I wear a helmet kiting because I have made an educated decision too, not because I had to by means of force feeding and brain washing.
Cheers
Rich
The best example I see of this is the people getting killed crossing train lines. People are blaming the government for not building underpasses (at every train crossing which is just not feasible). How about blaming the idiots for crossing the line when a train was coming? How about blaming the idiots for playing their iPods at full volume and crossing without looking? Sure, they may have died but it doesn't take away their responsibility. Instead their families look for answer by trying to get the government to pay for things they should be teaching their own kids, like how to safely cross a train line and look before crossing.
It bugs the crap out of me because we're building a society to cater for morons instead of letting people take the blame for making their mistakes. Sure its traumatic for train drivers but it's really not that hard, if you cross a train line when a train is coming and you don't look, you're going to get killed. No, the government is not to blame because even if they build an underpass, people will still cross the lines when they're in a hurry. We're not talking about 10 year olds getting killed who don't know any better, we're talking about people who are 18+.
And yet, every week or two we still hear of people getting killed by trains and every time it happens, we hear people crying for and underpass instead of trying to educate their kids on basics in life.
