Two fingers to insurance and health and safety

[Rupe]

Really please to see that common sense prevailed and the annual cheese rolling went ahead even though it was officially cancelled due to no insurance, no ambulance cover (usually covered by st johns) and due to police concerns overt traffic chaos.

 

This even is just down the road from me and I have been many times, but the internet has casued people to come from all over the world which TBH has ruined it.

 

Last time it was officially held in 2009 15,000 people turned up. This time just a few hundred locals, perfect!

 

Daredevils defy health and safety to stage unofficial Double Gloucester race | Mail Online

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Really please to see that common sense prevailed and the annual cheese rolling went ahead even though it was officially cancelled due to no insurance, no ambulance cover (usually covered by st johns) and due to police concerns overt traffic chaos.

 

This even is just down the road from me and I have been many times, but the internet has casued people to come from all over the world which TBH has ruined it.

 

Last time it was officially held in 2009 15,000 people turned up. This time just a few hundred locals, perfect!

 

Daredevils defy health and safety to stage unofficial Double Gloucester race | Mail Online

 

So actually insurance and H&S, or rather a lack of it, did you (the event) a favour, ha.

 

I agree, what people choose to do in their own time should be at their own risk, be it chasing cheese down a bl**dy steep hill or chucking burning barrells round the village (Now that really is mad!), and no need for others to intervene.

 

Glad you had a gud'un..!

Paul

[Dave D]

glad to hear common sense prevailed and the event went ahead. did you chase the cheese rupe?

[onetruth]

common sense prevailed and the annual cheese rolling went ahead

 

Hmm. "Common sense" must mean something very different where you are...

[Rupe]

Common sense to me is don't go any where near chasing the cheese, I have beoken my ankles before (not chasing cheese) and have no intention of repeating it, but I'm glad these traditions are up held.

[gibbon]

The tar barrel rolling down here has similar problems with insurance. Somehow they seem to think that letting drunk farmers run through crowds of people with flaming barrels is a bad idea. One day they will try to ban it but no doubt they'll do it anyway. Good on crazy British traditions.

[Rupe]

The plan here was to charge £20 per head to try and reduce numbers and pay for insurance etc. but they got so much abuse that the official organisers "officially" backed out, but it looks to me as though this was far more than just a facebook group of locals having a go.

[peckerwoo]

Damn those maccabees

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Nevertheless, a brilliant tune from a couple of yrs ago,,,

Edited May 31, 2011 by peckerwoo

[tomtrees]

Life without risk would be pritty boring I think most people that run a company or climb for a living know about pushing the boundries bankers do it every day explorars politions scintists all do it and the result has a greater impact on our lives than running down a steep hill.

 

You could stay in bed all day and never achive anything but you would die of bordem never loved and never lived

 

lets move forward and except that living is risky and as a docter once said to me live is a illness that always finishes with death make the most of it.

[Sam Thompson]

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