Firefighters: Banned from climbing ladders

[Jamesy]

this is what it is coming to:

[Technologic]

Health and safety officals make these stupid rules because insurance companies have increased the cost of insurance incase they get sued...

[Jamesy]

Well maybe if the government got a backbone and actually said no perhaps we wouldnt be in the PC slop that we are in now.

Remember that boy who drowned while 2 "cops" watched?

[-:Undertaker:-]

All I can say is.

That's the UK for you!

[Charlie]

They are FIREFIGHTERS, they go into burning buildings to save people and they can't even climb a ladder? How stupid.

[Jamesy]

All I can say is.

That's the UK for you!

Agreed. And I'm swinging towards conservative, I don't like gordon brown and David cameron been making some good policies lately...

(my friends think I'm strange for being interested in pollitcal happenings)

[reindeer.]

I sure there firefighters wouldn't give a **** if they fell off a ladder - if they volunteered to do it then they're aware of what might happen and what the dangers could be. They take their own responsibility. If I was one of these firemen I would climb up there and do it in my spare time. If they can climb a LONGER ladder up to the roof of a BURNING BUILDING, then go inside, GRAB SOMEONE, sling them OVER THEIR SHOULDER, then CLIMB BACK DOWN the ladder, then I'm sure they can climb a seven foot ladder to grab some banners. Dear me, what is going on with the world?

[&]

It's at times like this that I really hate being in the UK. Sure we have good(ish) services but the god damned red tape streaming from London is driving me mad. If I want to climb a tree I'm going to go climb a tree. There are limits to how for these stupid health and safety know nothings can go, sure maybe sometimes they are useful. If I was a fire fighter I would bloody use my ladder and do my job instead of letting a bunch of idiots tell me that what firefighters have done for the past 500 years is now suddenly unsafe.

*angry*

Firefighting IS unsafe .

H&S is just ridiculous these days/

[CrazyColaist]

its stupid

wot happens if i woz in that building in stevenage (which cort fire) and i couldnt get down stairs den wot?!

[Jamesy]

stairs would be banned, they have sharp corners and you can fall down them. no wait. ban gravity. thats what causes a lot of health and safety problems. no wait, mass genocide, if they are already dead they can't get hurt!

*showing how far it could go*