Evolution in Action...

[zeitghost]

Inhaling burning wheelie bins?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7106926.stm

Doomed etc.

[Cooperinliverp00l]

Inhaling burning wheelie bins?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/7106926.stm

Doomed etc.

ZEitghost this thread is a load of 'Rubbish'

[wobbegong]

A contender for the Darwin Awards, surely?

[KathyWoolfe]

A contender for the Darwin Awards, surely?

I agree.
We should encourage this trend as it can only improve the gene pool.

[Pondlife]

Youngsters on Teesside who set fire to wheelie bins and inhale the fumes in an attempt to get "high" have been warned they are putting their lives in danger.

Why? Surely it's better for all if they just continue.

[wobbegong]

Why? Surely it's better for all if they just continue.

Agreed, but if the authorities can say that the little darlings were warned not to do it, then future compensation claims (and you just know they'll come ) will have a much bumpier ride through the courts.

[threaded]

Do they recover peoples chips from the burnt out bins to fit to the new bins, or do the new bins come ready chipped and some flunky at council house has to alter the records to show Mrs. Farnsworth had her binned burned and this is her new chip number, in triplicate of course, and it wasn't Mrs Farnsworth but Johns chip shop next door, so the chip renumbering people require a supervisor to double check their chip id changes to ensure they chipped the right chip shop?

[DimPrawn]

Sounds like you got a chip on your shoulder on this one.

[SueEllen]

Agreed, but if the authorities can say that the little darlings were warned not to do it, then future compensation claims (and you just know they'll come ) will have a much bumpier ride through the courts.

Don't they have to put warning stickers on the actual bins?

It's a bit like buses when they were sued for a kid standing up and falling so they had to put warnings on the top deck even though there were already warnings downstairs saying no standing upstairs.

[wobbegong]

Don't they have to put warning stickers on the actual bins?

It's a bit like buses when they were sued for a kid standing up and falling so they had to put warnings on the top deck even though there were already warnings downstairs saying no standing upstairs.

Probably so, still, if stickers are "too expensive" or too easily removed "in the rain", then half a dozen council numptys armed with a stencil and a can of spray paint each, would be considerably cheaper than a compensation pay-out.