Welcome to Britain; the health and safety gone mad capital of the world.
Oh how we laughed at the news that Tarmac had banned round boot laces over health and safety fears. But this was a mere drop in the health and safety gone mad ocean that now threatens to engulf all forms of UK industry and which is now in danger of making us a global laughing stock.
As the countdown to the London 2012 Olympic Games reached the 100 days to go milestone, officials in Weymouth – which will host the Games’ sailing events – commissioned a 13 foot high giant sandcastle, only to knock it down again within hours over health and safety concerns.
Organisers claimed keeping the castle on the beach in Dorset would have meant hiring 24-hour security staff in case it toppled over and trapped a child or people climbed on it.
But locals described the castle, built by sand sculptor Mark Anderson and funded by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Locog), as a waste of time and money.
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