General insanity

This blog seems to have become dominated by the economic crisis and the US seeming to be sleep-walking into electing someone of whom questions are not allowed to be asked. So as lighter relief, I bring you this story from the weird world of "health and safety":

"A gardener who fenced off his allotment with barbed wire after being targeted by thieves has been ordered to take it down – in case intruders scratch themselves.

Bill Malcolm erected the 3ft fence after thieves struck three times in just four months, stealing tools worth around £300 from his shed and ransacking his vegetable patch.

But Bromsgrove district council has ordered the 61-year-old to remove the waist-high fence on health and safety grounds."

Read the whole story and wonder at what has happened to our senses in the UK.