Ok, let's look on this from a different angle: If you manage to swallow the pen cap you have a chance of survival because: a: the cap is smaller and can be swallowed. b: The cap have a tiny hole in it allowing at least some air to pass trough. (This just might just prolong the pain, but still...) If you have one of those clicky pens and manage to swallow it, your chances are pretty slim, i guess... Conclusion: ban clicky pens!
Maybe have huge warning lables like carrier bags do. "Warning, can cause irritation to throat, and possibly death" Just a thought. Sam
http://humour.200ok.com.au/image_warningsign.html I know this sign is supposed to be a joke but it's becoming more true for each day that pass, it seems....
I think he meant "photoshopped"/"fake" by saying "joke" It is true, though. I've got a temporary job cleaning at a mental hospital - the other day a nurse needed to move a table. She asked me "Are you allowed to lift things?". Even after living in England for eight months, I went "what the...". Allowed to move a sodding table?! I hate this "weak" society. It almost makes me miss the days when we used to throw disabled/weak children off cliffs... this "health and safety" crap, which can be usefull in a small amount (aka common sense), is going to be the death of our civilisation/way of life. I'm all for protecting the weak, but there's a limit. There's no need to ban everything that kills people. If we do that, then we need to ban humankind as it is as well. I'm fairly sure amoebes don't kill anything, let's revert back to that form of life...
But that why they put holes in pen lids so that if a kid swallows one and it gets stuck they can still breath and not die. That is why if you look at your lids they gor holes int he end. They should ban Nails. My older brother swallowed a nail when he was little and it got stuck in his throat. We will have to glue things together instead of nailing. Im starting the ban nails club.
I got told off at work for moving a small chest. I mean if you really got be like that, I have a Manual Handling Certificate and a Certificate to teach manual handling. But still im not allowed to move any furniture at all in case I hurt myself and try and sue the goverment.
What we need is motivational classes for tyrants. Dict-Tech: with motivational speakers Robert Mugabie, Ming the Merciless and hosted by GW Bush.
I tripped over my dog once and banged my knee. I've decided to start a campaign against dogs laying down. I plan on making it law that all dogs have cardboard tubes affixed to their legs so that they have no option but to stand up. I also want knees banned so that no one will ever have to suffer from banging said knee ever again!
i'd say put babies when they are born a tattoo on the forehead that reads: life is dangerous, you will have to pay taxes and sooner or later you will die. that way we could get rid of all those ban everything crap along with all those retarded million dollar claims.... /warning; sarcasm has been detected in this post
There should be a law against stupidity, obviously the mother and father should be banned rather than pen lids.
Well, yes, instead of banning pen tops, we should ban those parents (and their immediate relatives) from ever having children again. Choking on pen tops is just another of nature's ways to protect the gene pool. I know it's rude (like other things said in this topic), and it sucks some kid died, but those parents really bring comments like these upon themselves by their ridiculous campaign. Imagine international travel to the UK in a few years... "no pen tops, plzkthx" signs everywhere? Or if it only turns into an English law, are we going to have pen top border patrols? Blergh. Now I am completely confused
