“Health & safety gone mad” – council orders removal of Tour de France bunting

nobs!!!

Was this an April Fool joke..... three months late?
Or North Yorks Council just being miserable? In which case they should be more concerned with the bewildering effect a multitude of colourful team jerseys in Le Tour will have on spectators' dazzled eyes.
Solution. Have all riders wear a uniform drab grey, to blend in with the dry stone walls.

Anyone know what the weight of this bunting is and what the OTM of the column is?

Near where I live we've had several columns bent horizontal by the local youff, so I'm guessing these things really aren't very strong, but then they'd only be designed to carry the weight of the head and not a lot of wet woll

It seems that this council has a lot of time on its hands and not much to do. If I were a ratepayer there I would be wondering why the council is employing people with so little to do that they have time to be worried about bunting getting a bit wet.

Sounds like they need to start laying people off because they must already have fixed all the potholes, cut the bushes back from all the obscured sight lines, replaced all the missing road signs, collected up all the flytipping, repainted all the peeling paint on infrastructure...... Just done it all already.

I did some work once for a Street Lighting Dept of a Council. They HATE people attaching anything to the lamp posts (unless they have paid for the privileged)

My guess the original draft was "Oi get that off our lamp post, now!" but they thought the old H&S was a better cover story.

this is why 'Leaning on a lamp post' was sung by a man from Lancashire - don't lean on a North Yorkshire lamp post, you might bring the whole street down domino style.

Health n Safety and wool jerseys
Baa humbug!

Chances are someone who's not in the spirit complaining to get the bunting down and a knee jerk reaction from a council.

Really, the lighting columns were bending from a load that my washing line could handle?!?! Either lighting columns in Yorkshire are made out of marshmallow, or these people haven't got a clue...words fail me

The bunting in the first pic doesn't rely on the flexor strength of the pole because any pull from bunting on one side is balanced by pull of bunting on the other side. It only depends on tensile strength of the cord or compressive strength of the pole. If it was hung crossing the street in a zig zag then we might have a problem.

Science bitchhhhhhh.

What's the chances of it raining in North Yorkshire in July anyway?!!

most lampposts seem to be able to take the weight of several hanging baskets filled with earth and water. Can't see knitted bunting taking up that much water, so someone has done their sums wrong

all the sheep in Masham must be terrified in case it rains and their little legs buckle underneath them

Well now its tied to the buildings lets hope the walls don't begin to bend!!!!!