Red card for Sussex sports pitch snowmen (From The Argus)
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Red card for Sussex sports pitch snowmen
8:40am Sunday 27th January 2013 in News
A council worker attacking the snowman with a hedge trimmer
A council has been slammed for destroying snowmen with hedge-trimmers.
Stephen Divers from Shoreham spotted a council worker attacking a snowman in Buckingham Park in Shoreham.
He asked: “Is this a step too far for health and safety?”
A spokesman for Adur and Worthing councils admitted the snowmen had been destroyed to clear sports pitches.
She added: “When the weather breaks after snow has laid, we have to get back to normal as quickly as possible.
“Unfortunately snowmen that have been built will remain for weeks rather than hours as they freeze into a very compact lump.
“Where they are positioned on sports pitches, we have to break them up before games can be played and thus the reason for the snowmen around Adur and Worthing parks have had to be destroyed this week.”
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Comments(20)
Rocco10
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11:35am Sun 27 Jan 13
tekniko
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11:40am Sun 27 Jan 13
Rocco10 wrote:Rocco, your comment is so insensitive, that snowman had his head chopped off!
Who cares. Did the person have nothing else going on in their life?
Rocco10
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12:17pm Sun 27 Jan 13
tekniko wrote:At least it was quick and painless, we're lucky so have such humane council workers.
Rocco10 wrote:Rocco, your comment is so insensitive, that snowman had his head chopped off!
Who cares. Did the person have nothing else going on in their life?
timfusciardi
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12:31pm Sun 27 Jan 13
wippasnapper
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12:47pm Sun 27 Jan 13
Rocco10 wrote:How would you know it was painless have you ever had someone hack at you with a hedge-trimmer? Just think of the kids who in there own minds believe the snowman to be alive and how they must feel seeing this violent act of devastation and we are supposed to show our kids we are not violent but we care no matter what you are.
tekniko wrote:At least it was quick and painless, we're lucky so have such humane council workers.
Rocco10 wrote:Rocco, your comment is so insensitive, that snowman had his head chopped off!
Who cares. Did the person have nothing else going on in their life?
The internets wisest man
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1:25pm Sun 27 Jan 13
I also hope the beheadings were done with cultural sensitivity. Some people wish to follow alternative legal systems in the UK that advocate many different kinds of medieval punishment on humans around the world. The snow people should have been given the option of being stoned?
Indigatio
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3:07pm Sun 27 Jan 13
The internets wisest man wrote:Briiliant!
This is an outrage. People casting aspersions about this snow persons sex and gender. I was brought up not to make assumptions about anyone. Unless the council know categorically that the snow-people involved were male and wished to be addressed as male then it is not right to simply assume they were snowmen.
I also hope the beheadings were done with cultural sensitivity. Some people wish to follow alternative legal systems in the UK that advocate many different kinds of medieval punishment on humans around the world. The snow people should have been given the option of being stoned?
saraman
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5:48pm Sun 27 Jan 13
rfairweather@tiscali.co.uk
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6:15pm Sun 27 Jan 13
Serf
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6:41pm Sun 27 Jan 13
saraman wrote:Probably a carrot
What's the difference between a snowman and a snowoman?
tekniko
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7:33pm Sun 27 Jan 13
Serf wrote:Snow balls?
saraman wrote:Probably a carrot
What's the difference between a snowman and a snowoman?
Plunge
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8:21pm Sun 27 Jan 13
imnotpc
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10:58pm Sun 27 Jan 13
Plunge wrote:lol
I thought I had stumbled into a mass grave of snowmen the other day. Turned out to be a field of carrots.....
Thetruthhurts101
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11:25pm Sun 27 Jan 13
wippasnapper wrote:Are u being seriouse??? If u teach ur kids that snowmen are real, ring 01273621984 east access mental health team
Rocco10 wrote:How would you know it was painless have you ever had someone hack at you with a hedge-trimmer? Just think of the kids who in there own minds believe the snowman to be alive and how they must feel seeing this violent act of devastation and we are supposed to show our kids we are not violent but we care no matter what you are.
tekniko wrote:At least it was quick and painless, we're lucky so have such humane council workers.
Rocco10 wrote:Rocco, your comment is so insensitive, that snowman had his head chopped off!
Who cares. Did the person have nothing else going on in their life?
Thetruthhurts101
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11:28pm Sun 27 Jan 13
The internets wisest man wrote:Seriously mate, what did u want the council too do? Get an eviction order, and as for his and hers that's for humans not a bit of fecking ice!!!!!!! Get a grip and spew that dictionary back up u willack
This is an outrage. People casting aspersions about this snow persons sex and gender. I was brought up not to make assumptions about anyone. Unless the council know categorically that the snow-people involved were male and wished to be addressed as male then it is not right to simply assume they were snowmen.
I also hope the beheadings were done with cultural sensitivity. Some people wish to follow alternative legal systems in the UK that advocate many different kinds of medieval punishment on humans around the world. The snow people should have been given the option of being stoned?
Thetruthhurts101
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11:32pm Sun 27 Jan 13
michael505
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4:27pm Mon 28 Jan 13
stephendivers
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6:53pm Mon 28 Jan 13
Brilliant!
As for the council's response, I knew that would be their answer.
However as far as I know, they had no games at Buckingham park on Saturday or Sunday. From memory, if the grounds are that wet then there is a clause in the hire agreement that says games, car-boots, funfairs, fates etc cant go ahead if excessive damage will be caused to the grass.
Anyway, life goes on.
Thanks for brightening my evening with your responses.
Stephen ;)
stephendivers
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6:57pm Mon 28 Jan 13
Subject: It's snow joke !
It would seem Adur/worthing council are paying contractors or their staff to demolish the snowmen and various snow sculptures with petrol strimmers in Buckingham park.
Is this a step too far for health and safety? Bearing in mind that to walk into the park the gateways are still full of slippery ice and snow.
Stephen Divers
Shoreham-by-Sea
tekniko says...
10:57am Sun 27 Jan 13