We have given up trying to warn people for this very reason. Now we get the camera out and take the 'before' picture just in case. In cases where they do something that we might be held responsible for if they get injured we do yell. For this I have been called 'the rudest man I have ever met' and similar. If an accident does not happen near them people discount the idea that it might. It's only when you meet the lady student with three broken ribs from a swinging windlass which she lost control of, returning from being strapped up in hospital still in pain, that you realise what a windlass can do if the ratchet slips. And yet all the time we meet those people (mostly boat owners and even a BW locky) who refuse to take the windlass off when they have wound up a paddle and will rubbish the suggestion that it is removed.
--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Martin Clark <[email protected]> wrote: From: Martin Clark <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Death at Cropredy To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 2 August, 2009, 2:39 PM Sean Neill wrote: > Seriously, I do feel that if you know what risks people are running you should > warn them in a way which makes clear you are not crying wolf. But some people seem to genuinely believe that they are invincible. I once tried to warn a woman in the well deck of a hire boat against trying to deflect it from fast-approaching stonework with her hands, only to be told to f*** off for my troubles. -- Martin Clark Pennine Waterways Website http://www.penninew aterways. co.uk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
