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utter bobbins bermbandit for loads of reasons
The vast majority of lakes and reservoirs have no sign.
as you say anyway its Darwinism in progress. Did you look at the number of people drowned wild swimming? IIRC 7 a year. 30 a year die on the Scottish mountains. Should they have " no walking" signs?
What I do and what others do is a totally separate thin. I am not responsible for them nor they for me
I don't care if the powers that be have cleared obstacles or not. I will make my own judgement about what is safe for me to do thank you very much
You need to get real and understand risk an risk assessment.Can you cross s street on your own?
TJ more people walk on the highlands than swim I assume so not a great comparison but yes everything is potentially risky.
Like you say it can be safe if you are compotent but I know someone who died in a reservoir whilst at school...depends some are more skilled than others and how do we tell I assume the unskilled are too daft to see their lack of skill so cant either assess dangers or minimise them- Dunning -Krugger defecit Level 1 * Most on here can ride stuff tham most other people [people who can ride a bike but are not cyclists] would just hurt themselves on. Do you ask them how they cross the road? We are not all equally compotent so it depends but for sure people will die every summer swimming in reservoirs as they will crossing the road...one seems easier to avoid than the other though.
*1. Unconscious Incompetence
The individual neither understands nor knows how to do something, nor recognizes the deficit, nor has a desire to address it.
Junkyard I know someone who died on the mountains. I would not attempt to stop people walking i them.
Its easy to avoid dying in the mountains - just don't go in them
Your position on swimming is untenable. Someone decides an activity is too risky despite the evidence and that means that none of us can do that activity? ridiculous
Lets put up no walking signs in the mountains. The vast majority of those who die in the mountains die from incompetence.
More folk die getting out of the bath than in resovoirs. Lets ban bathing
Sorry - completely ridiculous nanny state bollocks
TJ +1
How the **** can you compare getting out the bath to swimming in deep cold water with unpredictable under currents and under water obstacles. Even a 5 or 6 foot river can be very cold in the middle, even in the height of summer.
Kuco - you can't. Many more people die getting out of the bath each year. Bathing is dangerous
Three pages of twoddle and this is still the most convincing reason:
[i]The biggest danger is you might have a poo and it would block my tap.[/i]
And this should lead to a banning:
[i]Wild Swimming: 150 Hidden Dips in the Rivers, Lakes and Waterfalls of Britain
Mate of mine has this book which he dips into now and again.
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