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Please be careful this Christmas.

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B00 | 16:59 Mon 22nd Dec 2008 | ChatterBank
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As I love you all (!?) I'd like you all to have a Merry but most of all safe, Christmas this year. So with that in mind, please bear these frightening statistics in mind.

1 - Every year at least 3 people are reported with broken arms due to pulling Christmas crackers.

2- In 1999 over 200 people were admitted to hospital after not removing all the pins from new shirts

3- Over the last 10 years 27 people have died testing batteries on their tongue.

4- In 2001 9 people needed hospital treatment due to Scalextric cars.

5- Last year 2 people died eating Christmas decorations they thought were chocolates.

6- Since 1997 26 people have died watering Christmas trees with the the Christmas lights on.

7- In 2002 12 people sustained burns when trying on a new jumper with a cigarette in their mouth.

8- Last year 22 children were admitted to hospital when swallowing wheels from diecast cars.

9- 5 People suffered 3rd degree burns last year when trying to flame torch their Christmas pudding
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Cheery News!!!
Nice one Boo. xx
Happy Xmas to you.
Hi, B00! :) No. 3 kills me every time I read it! :)
Pardon my ignorance but how can you die from testing a battery on your tongue? Surely the current would be too small ?
No.1 is my favourite :-D
In number 6 they shouldnt have been wearing the Christmas lights in the first place
Was it a car battery
I wondered whichs simple bar stewards were causing the bed crisis, now I know!
Maybe it was a car battery yogasun
Whats a diecast car?
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Where is this 'spot'?
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Merry Christmas Boo!
Ya just can't legislate for idiots!
That number 3, shockin ain't it!
add to that the much higher incedences of domestic violence.


merry christmas so they say eh ?
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Glad to see you're cheery over Christmas Legend...!

And same to you knobby, have a good one :-)
It sounds like most of the people in BOO's post needed to be removed from the gene pool for the good of the human race.

Mother nature looks after the species.
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