BBC NEWS | England | Wear | Family wants plastic pen tops ban

This is even more stupid than warning labels on hot coffee :tired

Does anyone know where common sense was buried? I'd like to go visit and put some flowers on the grave. :rolleyes

Just wow ! I feel for the child but I write this one up with the " Don't Run With That Lollipop in Your Mouth" rule.

Its sad when you see parents get on a fruitless crusade because there child died from an accident.

It just goes to show how many people these days insist on shoving responsibility onto someone else. Either out of stupidity or the greed behind the chance to be awarded large sums of money.

I wish I'd had saved article I read once online about parents who were suing the school because the school *refused* to remove Peanut Butter sandwiches or from the menu or ban all nut Snacks from the school. Cause her child was allergic to it. The school went out of their way for this woman and her child's peanut allergy already. Offered many other substitutes and even put up signs in the lunch line warning about peanut butter.

At 13 if this kid wasn't smart enough or had never been taught by his parents NOT to put things in his mouth. Then its the parents fault. Not the pen company. Geeze.

*Wishes she was a judge sometimes just to be able to handle these kinds of cases*

I swear I'd look at the parent's and tell them "you know the old saying about how stupid people shouldn't breed. You just fit in that catagory. Then charge em a nice big FAT bill for wasting the courts time.

No, they're not ALL still alive! Here's one from my area. Further reports say that today would have been his 56th birthday. Happy birthday, Mr. Dumas!

Penny trick gets man killed by train

GREENWICH — A man trying to entertain his family by putting a penny on the tracks died after being struck by a train in Greenwich, police said.

The man had jumped onto the tracks at the Riverside Railroad Station on Sunday afternoon to place a penny on a track and show his wife and three daughters how it would be flattened by a train, police said.

Sgt. John Rizzitelli of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says relatives were trying to help him up get back on the platform.

The Metro-North Railroad train, an express from Stamford to New York City, was traveling at about 75 mph when it struck the man. He died immediately.

Police are withholding the man's name this morning, pending notification of all of his relatives.

:omg: Yeah I would say he showed something get flattened !

lol...I agree with all of you! I am so sick of people suing for sh*t they did to themselves....ugh....

You weren't the only on to think that, Chris! :-)

In the next town over from me, three people (all adult men, who should know better) have been killed in the past year while walking across the railroad tracks in the same spot. Their families bitched and moaned about how their dead loved ones would still be alive if there was a FENCE there.

Fence has now been built. NOT GOOD ENOUGH! One of the families wants a memorial plaque installed on the fence. What's it gonna say? "Hey, if Johnny wasn't so stupid and so lazy, he's be alive right now. Let it be a lesson to the rest of you!"?

Followup question: how long until the fence has a hole cut in it (assuming that it doesn't already"?

They had PLANNED a grand burial for common sense, but some dumbass fell into the grave and sued.

Instead, common sense received a quiet, dignified, nondescript burial in potter's field, in an unmarked grave.

In lieu of flowers, the family of Common Sense requests that donations be made in name of Common Sense to the International Society to Sexually Neuter the Terminally Stupid.

Remember that the darwin awards to no require that the 'victim' be dead. They only require they not be able to breed.

I too would like to know where common sense has gone. Even a distant cousin or something. Or "personal responsibility". I feel bad for the family for having lost their kid, but where does it end? Erasers are small and can be chewed on/choked on, etc, etc.