The Case Of The Killer Flapjack

[Rosie29]

A school in Essex has banned triangular flapjacks from the canteen menu after a boy was "sent home to recover" (BBC 1pm News) after being struck by a flying triangular flapjack. This sort is now dangerous because it is too pointy.

You couldn't make it up. Could you?!!

[Zeuhl]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1228406.html

[Ann]

So anything you slice in segments - like pizza or apple pie or shortbread could be banned too as it has a "point". Madness - H&S gone daft again!

[Rosie29]

Thanks Zeuhl - I did try to check if this had been posted before - but not well enough .

[Zeuhl]

S'okay :-)

You might catch the 'evening shift' anyway

[Orderlimit]

These people that with this type of nonsense should be sent away for rehabilitation.

"Welcome to Modern Britain - a country where you can be arrested for pinching a few crisps from a schoolfriend, throwing cream cakes or denying the existence of Santa Claus - while burglars, muggers and drug dealers go about their business unmolested by the forces of law and order."

[jake-the-peg]

That's rubbish designed to appeal to Lazy reactionary prejudice

When someone wants to ban something they just say it's Health and Safety

The Health and Safety executive were laughing at this one


A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: "We often come across half-baked decisions taken in the name of health and safety, but this one takes the biscuit.

[factor-fiction]

I'm not sure that the blame lies with 'health and safety'- it lies more with the people who throw flapjacks and the litigious tendencies of parents and claims companies. Once the school has been put on notice that the flapjack has caused an injury it would find it more difficult to defend any legal action if another incident occurred. The school has a duty of care.

[Orderlimit]

but this one takes the biscuit. Haha

[furrypusscat]

The children should have been reprimanded for having a food fight. One of my gripes is food being thrown around. Sounds like they should have lessons as to how to conduct themselves whilst sat at a dinner table.

[jake-the-peg]

A duty of care to stop someone getting hit by a flapjack?

Come on - this is simply a teacher getting p1$$ed off (not unfairly) and citing Health and Safety because he's too damn lazy to think of something else to say!

[New Judge]

For once, jake (make a note of this!) I completely agree with you !!!

[marval]

What a daft decision, just tell the pupils not to throw their food.

[Tilly2]

The problem is that a square or rectangular flapjack, when cut in half , diagonally, by a devious child, would still be a triangular flapjack.

[chelle7272]

Yes, the issue of food fights happening should be addressed before the shape of flapjacks! Kids could cut their food into triangles themselves..fgs..
How absolutely ridiculous.

[Graham-W]

I'd be more concerned with what the pupils were using to cut the flap-jack into pointed pieces.

[factor-fiction]

It does seem like an over reaction, I agree, and there is probably something in what jake-the-peg says. But the news has focussed on the one measure. It may even have been misreported (like the stories of making kids wear goggles to play conkers). I'm sure the school is not going to ignore the behaviour issue and say " as flapjacks are now square you may throw them at people".