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Banning Potholing - conkers syndrome?
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#1 Posted : 17 October 2006 09:24:00(UTC)
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Posted By Peter Leese I've heard the Government is considering banning potholing. There's been some sort of consultation paper about it. Their main concern was that by putting in a ban, it might be driven underground.
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#2 Posted : 17 October 2006 09:57:00(UTC)
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Posted By Alan Hoskins Is it Friday already???
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#3 Posted : 17 October 2006 10:06:00(UTC)
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter That was too good to wait until Friday before sharing it with us! Paul
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#4 Posted : 17 October 2006 10:20:00(UTC)
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Posted By FJ The only thing I know with a 100% certainty of death is... well... life. Is that going to be banned too?
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#5 Posted : 17 October 2006 12:28:00(UTC)
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Posted By Martin Mulholland "I have heard" ??? Please give your source..
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#6 Posted : 17 October 2006 14:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By Glyn Phillips The source i saw for this story is http://milos1.zoo.ox.ac....cc/dtt/vol09/dtt9_1.htm.
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#7 Posted : 17 October 2006 14:21:00(UTC)
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Posted By Peter Leese I think it might have been Ian or Fingaz ;-)))
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#8 Posted : 17 October 2006 14:37:00(UTC)
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Posted By JM82 Lol, good one!
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#9 Posted : 17 October 2006 15:29:00(UTC)
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Posted By Merv Newman That web site has a lot of the flavour of this one. technical, legal, social, bolshie participants ... We are not alone ! And they have never heard of asterisks merv
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#10 Posted : 17 October 2006 15:41:00(UTC)
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Posted By Paul Leadbetter Since the article that started this ball rolling was published in 1999, I think we can assume that potholing has been saved for the nation! Paul
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#11 Posted : 17 October 2006 15:44:00(UTC)
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Posted By Descarte 7 years seems about right though for drafting legislation, though it probably wont come into force till 2012 Yours cynically Des
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#12 Posted : 18 October 2006 08:34:00(UTC)
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Posted By Peter Leese I think you are right Paul, obviously the threat of just carrying potholing out underground worked.
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#13 Posted : 18 October 2006 08:36:00(UTC)
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Posted By Peter Leese Forgot to mention, the last message is dedicated to Manny who likes a bit of humour on the forum.
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