Pick-your-Own rubbish !

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I don't like to have too many moans......but this sort of thing really does make me cross.

What sort of society are we all going to end up living in?

Well, the latest from the "elf 'n safety" plonkers is stating that..." pick-your-own fruit farms could be hiding a host of hazards within their hedgerows."

Mr Boddington, the farm owner said:

"To us it’s a pick-your-own farm but to the insurers and the health and safety people it’s a strawberry factory."

‘The insurers want us to cotton wool the place by adding walkways and bridges, and making restricted zones with cordons.

‘They even wanted us to put handrails in. It is a sad day when a pick-your- own farm is closing because of heath and safety fears."

It appears this all started about a year ago, when an elderly lady filed a claim against the farm’s insurers over a fall that left her in hospital.

Mr Boddington, went on to say: "With that claim, our insurance premium more than doubled. It was already in the thousands of pounds and that was far too much."

"‘A guy from the insurance company came out and assessed the whole site and said we needed tape or a barrier around any hazard such as a hole in the path or field."

A statement on the farm’s website read: "It is with much sadness that we have had to make the decision not to open to the public."

"Firstly, we have been advised that we would need to implement radical refurbishment of the fields to make them safe for you, and the cost of this would be more than any turnover we generate."

"Added to this the cost of insuring you all just in case you injure yourselves while here has also rocketed to more than the turnover."

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People are so stupid, so lacking in responsibility for their own actions. By suing people left, right and centre, they are hemming themselves in more and more until it will no longer be possible to do anything but stay in bed all day.

"Elf 'n safety" is a repressive regime that stifles the population and its freedoms, while serving to propagate the "it's someone Else's fault" mentality.

I blame the eu, because they are the ones who put this law in place, and where most other eu countries don't bother applying it, the idiots here, follow it to the letter without deviating from the script, and forgoing common sense.

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