How Often Has This Happened?

a child or adult for that matter has gone 10 pin bowling in the UK, walked the length of the alley and got injured in the machinery that sets the pins in place in say the last 40 years? 10? 50? no the answer is none, but that has not stopped Health and Safety from coming to a number of time consuming and expensive conclusions, the most dumb of which was the idea to put barriers across lanes, but they were forced to admit defeat - after realising that bowlers must be able to see what they are aiming at,

John Ashbridge, of The Ten-Pin Bowling Proprietors Association, said: 'I have been in this industry for 40 years and I have never known any member of the public injured by a bowling pinsetter. I have never heard of anybody going near the pins.' Mr Ashbridge said he had watched HSE inspectors examining a bowling centre and he found their attempts to detect possible dangers 'hilarious', He added: 'Some operators have now fitted photoelectric beams, they don't cause any problems - they don't stop the machines because nobody ever goes near the pins.'

it's a peril that only a crack team of health and safety experts could have uncovered, after two long years and a huge £250,000 bill, that we have all paid for, they found that ten-pin bowling alleys up and down the country could be a 'very dangerous' environment for families,

please, please do not let anyone on the same Health and Safety team go any where near a ice rink! imagine how much it will cost to tell us how it is a dangerous environment for families, they might fall down on the ice!