What Kind Of Idiot Wou_____ Ouch!!

[Svejk]

http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/20/this-20ft-statue-had-to-be-moved-because-people-walked-into-it-while-texting-5707564/

[dannyk13]

More to the point, what kind of idiot ordered it moved?

[RATTER15]

They probably moved it through fear of being sued! Ridiculous!!

[Peter Pedant]

Lost sight on my right side suddenly and this happened to me a lot

people walked into me from my blind side I mean
( I also walked into other things but that would be less remarkable )

waiting on a concourse - ha ! wait by a rubbish bin and yes I noticed people were either walking into me or missing me and hittinng the bin

now I know the explanation - thx

[ o and the dog noticed I was partially blind and started leading me around. he didnt put his lead on tho ]]

[Peter Pedant]

I previously thought they were just thick
as in " oo there is a rubbish bin - memo: must miss it"
and then afterwards ... 'oops ... didnt "

[marval]

I could understand it if people had sight issues. To walk into it because they were texting serves them right.

[Mamyalynne]

If your eyes work then use them to see where you are going, mine don't work at all well and I have had multiple fractures due to arguments with street furniture.

If you need to text, then pause a while - simple really.


Lovely piece of sculpture too.

[stuey]

It seems appropriate that these complaining numskulls are getting bonked on the head by a pair of hands whilst carelessly using their hands.

[Hopkirk]

Hang on, look at the picture, the gap is too narrow so no wonder people were bashing their heads on it.

Didn't anyone do a risk assessment first?

[stuey]

Leave the statue where it is, and place a hard-hat rental station on both on both sides of it.

[vulcan42]

There was a line in a book I read years ago that seems appropriate as the statue is on a Christian site," God never told anybody to be stupid".

[Old_Geezer]

How are they going to learn not to walk into statues if some fool thinks they must be protected from their own stupidity by paying to move the statue ?

This signifies a lot of what's wrong with society. Always society's responsibility not the individual's to look out for the individual.

[agchristie]

They need to get a grip....

[jomifl]

What a daft place to put a statue...Leave it where it is put a bench under it and divert the path around it.

[agchristie]

These texters need to be given the heads up...

[jno]

my thought was the same as Hopkirk's. I also wondered how many of the accidents happened in bad light/after dark, since it only seems to have been there over winter (I'm pretty sure it wasn't there when I visited in September, because I would have hit my head on it).

[Mamyalynne]

Regardless of the fact it can accommodate someone 6' 4" - I would have walked round it ;-)

[Baldric]

http://salisburycathedral.org.uk/news/monumental-sculpture-exhibition

///These enormous works are part of a major two stage show, Relationships: An exhibition by Sophie Ryder, which opened on Friday 12 February and runs until 3 July.///

[Prudie]

It's hideous anyway, what idiot would put it in front of such classically beautiful architecture.

[stuey]

It is quite obvious that some people are fretting and wringing their hands over this situation...It's a strange, strange world we live in, master Jack.