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   Bruno Zeigerts said, 4 months ago

   I remember seeing a sign, ‘Do not jump over handrail.’
   The handrail was directly over a twenty foot drop to the road below.
   And you have to figure … the sign was put up after some idiot jumped over the railing.
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   Tog said, 4 months ago

   That’s like the warning on a packet of peanuts that says “allergy warning. May contain nuts”.
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   vwdualnomand said, 4 months ago

   or, if you pay for a package vacation, and have to do the activities of said package vacation. it doesn’t sound like a vacation, it becomes work.
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   rundstyk said, 4 months ago

   At my sons school (very modern with an open aula in three stories) they had a “don’t”-set of rules. One of them was “don’t lean too far out over the railings”. Like Verne comments: How far is too far?
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   masterskrain said, 4 months ago

   Sadly, Verne is just one of an increasing number of nit-wits that actually need warnings like “Do not stand above this rung”, on the TOP rung of a ladder, or “Warning, contents may be hot” on a cup of coffee, or “Do not use in the bathtub” on an ELECTRIC hair dryer!
   My theory is that if you actually NEED a warning like that, you are just too stupid to survive on your own!
   Remove ALL the liability warnings, and let nature, and Darwin, thin the herd!
   It could only help to increase the aggregate intelligence level of the Gene Pool!
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   bubbareb said, 4 months ago

   Do ya mean like the one that says: “Don’t feed the animals”? Sadly, someone ignored that one about three million years ago; that’s why the planet is crawling with huamsn today.
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   jerseytechgrl said, 4 months ago

   @Bruno Zeigerts

   I saw a similar sign on a railing…at Niagara Falls. It was a very very long way down…but apparently the sign was needed. :o
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   Darwinskeeper said, 4 months ago

   @jerseytechgrl

   My sister once told me that when she went to Niagra Falls she had this strange urge to jump over. I sort of understand, I have the same feeling about open heights. Neither of us are suicidal, its just this strange part of some people’s id.
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   Llywus said, 4 months ago

   @vwdualnomand

   They sell vacations in packages? With my luck it would be packaged in that unopenable plastic wrap.
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    water_moon said, 4 months ago

    @Darwinskeeper

    I’m shuddering even THINKING about leaning over a railing. I’m always deathly afraid that the railing is going to come loose/ edge is going to crumble/ glass will break. I have no problem wandering around on top of our roof, diving off of high dives, or climbing up trees, I’ve climbed mountians! but railings? UG!
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    Sandor_at_the_Zoo said, 4 months ago

    @bubbareb

    You’re proof that “huamsn” shouldn’t be on Earth. Leave it for Humans.
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    cezpaige said, 4 months ago

    @Darwinskeeper

    Water does have that hypnotic, drawing effect, I was told decades ago.
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    Bob said, 4 months ago

    How about elevators that are outside of the building?
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    David Henderson said, 4 months ago

    I guess Verne’s shell doubles as a heat shield, I hear that re-entry gets very hot.
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    Neo Blakkrstal said, 4 months ago

    @masterskrain

    At the top of my ladder it says STOP!
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