Check out the article at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5117318.stm
The link is unlikely to be up for long.
Dave Healy said:
Check out the article at:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5117318.stm
The link is unlikely to be up for long.
Self-inflicted fatal injuries are a way of removing future lack-wits from the gene-pool.
They also do it here in UK, the only difference is that here they die in public - ‘charbroiled 14-year old in main-line station, being removed from roof of high-speed commuter train operating at 33,000V, horrifies rush-hour commuters…’
One 10-year old kid had disappeared down to the waist after head-butting a catenary junction clip at 60 mph.
They also ‘surf’ in the most inappropriate places, like multi-storey car parks. Last tuesday a youngster was taken to hospital locally with life-threatening head injuries after car-surfing into an overhead steel beam.
I think they should all form a line and walk into a mulcher and save the clean-up crews a lot of trouble.
tac - a man with no sympathy
Ottawa Valley GRS
The problem is that enough survive that have to be supported by our welfare systems because they are so severely injured they cannot work. I’m with Terry…darn little sympathy here.
The sad part is, I can see this happening here in the states, and the governement paying for the hospitalization, and the parents sueing the railroad… Or, when they are seen doing it and chased by the cops, then it would be the cops fault, if they got hurt, because ““My child was only having fun, cause they had no other place to go””… And, the sad part is, some jury would find the railroad at fault, or the cops, and make them pay thru the nose, for an act that someone did, that they could not possibly control…
Personally I think they should jail the parents of these kids for failing to control them properly. But then again proper discipline is now considered child abuse.
Working in NYC a few years back, one of my colleagues told me that he and his mates used to secretly surf the tops of elevators in their Queens apartment block. Their cover was blown when one of the lads lost a finger.
When my colleague’s parents heard what he’d been doing, they solved the problem using a “bottom up” approach. The cure was permanent.
Three cheers for “proper discipline”!!!