Children declared a public hazard!

[Magpie]

I've always said children are a dangerous nuisance...

Council declares children a public hazard
By QMI Agency

An Australian town has declared war on sidewalk chalk. At first, the town's council called it a violation of municipal graffiti laws, but then declared the children who use the chalk are safety hazards.

In what some residents are calling a bureaucracy gone mad, children in Whitehorse, Australia, are being told to put down the sidewalk chalk.

"The children burst into tears when we told them," one cafe owner told the Daily Herald newspaper. "A council inspector visited us and said there had been a complaint and we had to stop."

The council says sidewalk chalk is a violation of the state graffiti laws.

The other option, according to local officials, would be to issue a permit that would allow the students to play with sidewalk chalk.

But that's apparently out of the question, too.


"The mayor told us they would like to issue us a permit but can't because it raises health and safety issues, in case somebody fell over a child on the footpath or into the street," the cafe owner said.

Anger in the town is now mounting and more than 200 people have signed a petition to let the children play with sidewalk chalk.

I'm thinking that mayor may be watching his hopes for re-election going down the drain.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Well that's something you don't hear every day, what a jerk.

 

[sparks19]

really? LOL someone might trip over them? how oblivious do you have to be to be walking down the sidewalk and not at some point see something in the middle of the walkway before you get to the point of tripping over it?

i'd think i f this is a problem then maybe they have bigger issues than sidewalk chalk