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[gingerjedi]

Building sites were great. Especially when they had those big concrete pipes lying around for you to ride your bike through.

Not to mention diesel tanks and powder actuated nail guns.

The kids who lived at Hillside gardens are lucky to be alive today.

[Mich the Tester]

[SupremeSpod]

Anyone remember that public safety film about that stupid kid who chucked a frisbee at an electricity pylon and then climbed up to the live wires to fetch it?

When they showed that at school we all shouted 'good riddance, yer prat!'

It was quite strange about 25 years or so ago when they started closing a few mills and being invited in to blow bits up and generally storm and secure the place.

We got shouted at when we were kids for trying to do the same thing. Go figure!

[Mich the Tester]

He survived, but he wasn't a pretty sight. I wonder how much time has done to heal the scarring.

Anyone remember that public safety film about that stupid kid who chucked a frisbee at an electricity pylon and then climbed up to the live wires to fetch it?

When they showed that at school we all shouted 'good riddance, yer prat!'

[doodab]

As the tester mentioned, an element of natural selection.

He survived, but he wasn't a pretty sight. I wonder how much time has done to heal the scarring.

[SupremeSpod]

I lived in a "new town" i.e. one giant building site, and I do remember there were a few accidents, and a few dead kids in the paper, although nothing I saw on building sites personally compared to my sister putting a garden fork through her foot, or the kid from school who somehow shorted the overhead railway power cables to the bridge using his body.

As the tester mentioned, an element of natural selection.

[doodab]

Yep, jumping from the first floor of half built houses into the builders sand, coming home covered in diesel impregnated sand and stinking the house to high heaven.

Those were the days. The builders didn't even secure the area and yet no-one impaled themselves on scaffolding etc. Worse we got was scabby knees and bruised.

Kids today, eh?

I lived in a "new town" i.e. one giant building site, and I do remember there were a few accidents, and a few dead kids in the paper, although nothing I saw on building sites personally compared to my sister putting a garden fork through her foot, or the kid from school who somehow shorted the overhead railway power cables to the bridge using his body.

[Mich the Tester]

Yep, jumping from the first floor of half built houses into the builders sand, coming home covered in diesel impregnated sand and stinking the house to high heaven.

Those were the days. The builders didn't even secure the area and yet no-one impaled themselves on scaffolding etc. Worse we got was scabby knees and bruised.

Kids today, eh?

There are some combinations that cannot be beaten, like;

- building site and BMX
- concreted open spaces and a skateboard
- steep, snow covered hill and a lorry tyre inner tube (great memories for those of us who spent part of our youth in the Alps or the Highlands)
- dump truck and a 7 foot, 470 pound northerner (erm, how did that one end up in this list?)

[SupremeSpod]

Building sites were great. Especially when they had those big concrete pipes lying around for you to ride your bike through.

Yep, jumping from the first floor of half built houses into the builders sand, coming home covered in diesel impregnated sand and stinking the house to high heaven.

Those were the days. The builders didn't even secure the area and yet no-one impaled themselves on scaffolding etc. Worse we got was scabby knees and bruised.

Kids today, eh?

[Mich the Tester]

Building sites were great. Especially when they had those big concrete pipes lying around for you to ride your bike through.

Yep, great stuff, and there was always the local dimwit who'd ride through without first checking for bits of steel reinforcement sticking out.

You might get the impression that my days of youthful play involved an aspect of Darwinian selection, and if so, you are right.

[doodab]

Building sites were great. Especially when they had those big concrete pipes lying around for you to ride your bike through.

[SupremeSpod]

I never played on a playground. Trees, building sites, rivers and abandoned farmhouses provided plenty of adventure and risk for a growing young chap, and provided Mr and Mrs Elastoplast and their neighbours the Dettol family with a steady income stream.

WHS++;

Mind you, we never did manage to get the dumper truck started.

[Mich the Tester]

I never played on a playground. Trees, building sites, rivers and abandoned farmhouses provided plenty of adventure and risk for a growing young chap, and provided Mr and Mrs Elastoplast and their neighbours the Dettol family with a steady income stream.

[chef]

I suspect it's because Prince William has already gifted 2012 open spaces for granny for being 60 years on the throne, so no need in investment from the gov

[AtW]

Why don't they scrap something useless, like elections?

Cost of elections is not very high - BBC News - FAQ: The general election
£80 mln, spread over next 5 years isn't that much. They could of course scrap the elections but then you won't not be able to change who is in office even if the change is decorative.