Fears Of An Old Age Pensioners Riot,

may have been the death knell for fundraisers for an elderly care home,

a sing-a-long fundraiser was to have been held at Goldenhill Community Hall in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire which is under threat of closure, but Stoke-on-Trent City Council in Staffordshire put the brakes on the plans when they told them they had to pay to have two 'bouncers' on the premises to keep law and order amongst the retirees, effectively cancelling out any money the event would have raised, 

Council officials ruled that for health and safety reasons, security was needed to ensure the event did not get out of hand, but the pensioners say they cannot afford the ‘ludicrous’ fee, Eric Jankowski, 82, said: ‘it's not about ticking boxes but making a sensible decision, a load of OAPs in their 70s and 80s are hardly likely to go wild are they? We just want to have fun like everyone else, now it seems that some jobsworths are, as usual, spoiling the party, it's such a shame that people don't seem to have any common sense anymore',

Denise Harding, 72, said: ‘they don't have doormen or bouncers on the door at my local pub when my son takes me on Thursday afternoons and they have a bar there, why does the community centre need one? it doesn't make any sense to me,’ Tom Simpson, 55, who is secretary of Sandyford and Goldenhill Residents' Association, said: ‘if they were organising drunken booze-ups then I could understand but not with fund-raising events like this one, the bar staff are already city council employees, I'm sure if there was a problem they would be capable of calling the police, we have never had anything like that happen before,’

Peter Price, the council's resident director of services, said that he and Councillor Ruth Rosenau would make a final decision on the security guards after looking over the profit and loss margin in the coming months, I am sure I have heard that name before, yes I remember he is the spokesman that had to apologise when his councils workmen put a rubbish bin on lampposts over 6 feet higher than the pavement! your local council working for you!