From a proper news source (mumsnet)- what would you ban?

[mattster]

It should be illegal to answer an (attempted) customer service call with the message "we are experiencing an unusally large amount of calls" unless the amount of calls that they are experiencing actually is unusually large, in the same way that shops are not allowed to mark items as "reduced" unless they have actually been available at a higher price previously. Call volume over time should be audited by all companies to enable easy enforcement of this new law by the regulators.

[Snooky]

bring back the license. take DNA samples of every dog.
And prosecute the owner based on the DNA in dog sh1t on the pavement.

But what if the dog has recently eaten another dog? Then the owner of that poor dog gets fined for the dog sh1t as well as having lost his dog. You clearly haven't thought this one through.

[vetran]

It should be illegal to answer an (attempted) customer service call with the message "we are experiencing an unusally large amount of calls" unless the amount of calls that they are experiencing actually is unusually large, in the same way that shops are not allowed to mark items as "reduced" unless they have actually been available at a higher price previously. Call volume over time should be audited by all companies to enable easy enforcement of this new law by the regulators.

Recording "your call is important to us" should be banned under trade descriptions.

[Paddy]

"Fatal dog attacks in England are measured in single figures per year."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...United_Kingdom

There are plenty of other things to worry about before dogs.

9 fatalities in the UK during 2022

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-10-14/...ous-dog-attack

[northernladuk]

9 fatalities in the UK during 2022

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-10-14/...ous-dog-attack

From 13 million dogs

[d000hg]

Recording "your call is important to us" should be banned under trade descriptions.

"For your convenience, we have removed..."

[Uncle Albert]

9 fatalities in the UK during 2022

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-10-14/...ous-dog-attack

9 is single figures.

[WTFH]

9 from 13 million = 0.0000692307692%
710 homicides (this doesn't include accidental deaths from RTAs etc) in England and Wales from a population of 59 million = 0.0012033898305%

[mallisarealperson]

I love statistics.

Like
In the UK there is a fall on stairs every 90 seconds. (Source: BS 5395-1:2010[1]
During 2015 there were 787 deaths in England and Wales caused by a fall on and from steps or stairs. (Source: Office for National Statistics[2])

So I guess we ban stairs then??

Did see a tv documentary years ago but cannot find it online. That had a title something like "how safe are we really"

It included stuff like how many people die falling in the shower in the morning. Or number of people really die from shootings or attacks. And opposite to what the media will tell you, they state we have never been safer.

Medicine is better than it has ever been.
Heart disease, cancer etc is survivable now, unlike only a few years ago.

As for banning dogs, I agree something needs to be done about bad dog owners.

But that includes putting bins back in parks etc.

[d000hg]

I love statistics.

Like
In the UK there is a fall on stairs every 90 seconds. (Source: BS 5395-1:2010[1]
During 2015 there were 787 deaths in England and Wales caused by a fall on and from steps or stairs. (Source: Office for National Statistics[2])

So I guess we ban stairs then??

No, but they are quite tightly regulated in law via building regulations.
Any in anyway this is reductive because being injured due to your own clumsiness/negligence/stupidity is totally different to being injured due to someone else's.