One Foot In The Grave

A man in his 60's who was attending an open graveside service accidentally did a backwards somersault directly into the open grave hole.

Falling Into Open Graves
Is Actually Quite Common.

He lay stricken for half an hour ... a witness in Treorchy Cemetery in South Wales said that 'Everyone was shocked, but because the emergency services came, we all left' ... adding that a few people did stay at the graveside. The man was treated by medics for light bruising after the fire services pulled him out.

Hipster Or A Dog Girls?

It appears that women have some hard choices to make in the mating game .....

Hipster Man - The Most Recent Male Trend.

Firstly, a beard or no beard on the prospective date ....

Snowflakes Not Falling On My Head

The University of Brighton is perhaps not exactly known as a hot bed of athletic competition, and therefore you wouldn't necessarily expect them to be great winners, unlike the great Brighton Olympian, Steve Ovett.

Steve Ovett From Brighton Was Very Competitive Despite Some Defeats ....

But you might think that they would be competitive.

Save Us From Idiots

The picture below was a still taken from a Facebook video advert by the Superdry clothing brand ....

Banned Free Runner Advert For Superdry Clothing Brand

 

... it was banned because it was 'irresponsible'.

Lazy Bones

Finally this week .. the man who is currently hiding his face the most, has to be that member of the Singapore defence forces who having received his call up papers, had his maid carry his kit bag to the boot camp.

Lazy Spoilt Soldier

The picture was all over Facebook, and is now viral on the web .... the soldier has not been named, but you can bet your life he will be .... in the meantime, the web has been full of jokes from men, and outrage from women in equal measure.

A raft of parodies of Singaporean soldiers storming into battle, followed by their maids, has appeared, including one of SAF troops marching in their serried ranks, followed by serried ranks of domestic helpers carrying their bags.

Here's a couple of the funniest memes ....

and

There are others ..... and the red face of the squaddie who has caused this loss of face to the Singaporean  Armed Forces command, will be something to behold when its finally unmasked.    

PC Driven Health and Safety Culture UK

Two Police forces collide with the modern culture, and public safety loses:

A Police Force has abandoned its motorbikes force because the Health and Safety 'Red tape' surrounding their use has made it no longer worthwhile sending them out. A study had found that police officers using them were "particularly vulnerable to collision". senior officers have insisted that the move to sell off all the motorbikes will "maximise officer safety".

A serving police officer, who was not not named in the reports, said: "I guess with all the health and safety red tape surrounding the police service these days their days were always going to be numbered. It's a great shame we won't be able to use them any more – cars just aren't the same. Maybe they'll offer us push bikes instead – as long as we can produce our cycling proficiency test certificates, obviously."

And following right along from that story, a police officer in a different force, refused to pose on a stationary push bike for some photographs, because it hadn't been assessed for health and safety risks, and besides he hadn't 'passed his cycling proficiency test' ..........

To be fair Pc Cobban said that he was only following orders (not that that old Nuremburg chestnut!), which state that staff who have not taken the proficiency test exam (a course taken by thousands of schoolchildren every year), are banned from using a bike.

"It was basically a health and safety thing. I was just being cautious as I haven't passed the cycling proficiency test," he said. "My personal view would be concern if anything happens to me while on the bike and it hasn't been risk assessed or insured – in this day and age you have to cover all bases. It's the way of the world. I could get on the bike but I'm not massively proficient."

If ever there was a sign of how far we have crumbled under Labours PC driven Health and Safety Regime, its with these two stories ....... one can hardly think of anything to say. All I can ask is if there needs to be a Health and Safety survey before police tackle burglars, or enter a crack house, or tackle armed robbers?

If this is the 'thin blue line' (now on a health and safety clipboard?) that's all that stands between us and the collapse of civil society, then 'God help us' because this lot no longer can do the job.