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Health and Safety games cost us £250,000

By Jackal | Published: December 1, 2009
Elf-n-safety must be looking to release a bloopers DVD in time for the Christmas rush, as the ‘own goals’ from this department keep on rolling in. In another installment of madness it has been reported that it has taken the jobsworths two years and £250,000 of tax payers money to compile a report that ten-pin bowling [...]
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Balloons outside shop are health and safety risk!

By scrubber | Published: November 24, 2009
Today’s contribution from the elf-n-safety pool of madness has popped up in the Solihull News. A couple with a shop in Solihull, West Midlands has been told by Solihull Council that the balloons they put outside their shop constitute a health and safety risk and must be removed. When confronted with the obvious stupidity of this position, [...]
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