[SEL] health and safety gone mad/cabin fever??

[jlb94 at juno.com]

In response to Peter's Health and Safety Gone Mad.
 
I can understand where you are coming from Peter.  And Peg Pfeiffer is
right, when she said, "I love this time of year, the beginnings of cabin
fever have set in, and 
this kind of topic can invoke soooo many responses."
 
However; here would be one reason you (or me) cannot enter a scrap yard
without wearing all that useless unsafe garb.   Lets say you (or me)
enter the yard and they do not require, or do not have, this "safety"
equipment and they, out of the goodness of their little hearts, "let" you
(or me) roam freely around the yard to stumble through the scrap piles of
sharp, barb filled, rusty, disease ridden metal.
 
Clumsy you (or me), while pulling on a piece of 3" x ¼" x 6' raw
material, gets stabbed in the eye, because of the lack of proper "safety"
equipment, and needs to have immediate surgery to save your (or my)
sight.
 
And – Because you (or me) are a highly paid expert marksman sharpshooter
working for the CIA taking out little innocent Girl Scouts selling Girl
Scout Cookies with a 30.06 Winchester with a 80X Scope mounted over the
finest lazar sight our illustrious government can purchase with our hard
earned tax dollars, you (or me) can no longer hold your (or my) $400,000
per year employment, because you (or me) no longer can use BOTH eyes. 
Multiply that times 30 because that's how long your (or my) career
would've lasted, had the company not been so gracious to allow you (or
me) to roam freely about their yard, might add up to about 1.2 million
dollars which, of coarse, the general working public has to pay for with
it's hard earned tax dollars.
 
And – Because the illustrious government has contracted the most
prestigious lawyer money can buy and, of course, the lawyer's friend, and
fraternal brother, Judge XYZ and, of course, his staff, also fraternal,
who, with hands in each other's pockets, will rape the general public to
as much hard earned tax money as humanly possible.
 
And – All because of this, the company who had graciously allowed you (or
me) to roam freely about their disease ridden yard, now has to pay 20
times the insurance premium they had before this all happened and now has
to install double fencing where single was sufficient, and hire
"round-the-clock" guard-watch to keep all but the employees out.
 
All because wearing "safety" equipment is a "bother" to you (or me).

Joe "Pip" Betz said that. 
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