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Subject: 'Nanny State'

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Dave P.

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Date Posted: 16:20:15 04/30/05 Sat

I have just been reading a story, on the BBCi news, about a police station in Woodbridge, Suffolk, that is to have it's flag pole removed on Health and Safety grounds. Apparently the flag pole is one of those sticking from the wall and is accessed by a window. Anyone who raises or lowers the flag has to lean out of the window. The article doesn't say how many poor unfortunates have fallen out of this window, over the years but it did strike me as another example of the 'nanny state'. I mean, if you can't trust a policeman to raise a flag without falling out of the window, what do you trust him to do? Don't answer that................................

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