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Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« on: 13 October 2009, 12:57:40 »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/8303246.stm

It doesn't bear thinking about how much pain this young girl must've been in. In all honesty I wouldn't have known that something as innocuous as plaster of Paris would have heated up to this degree. I'd have compared it to having an old style plaster cast on a broken arm/leg/etc .... but obviously not.  :(
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #1 on: 13 October 2009, 13:04:36 »
its shocking.....was there no hammer to smash it off, or water to try and pour in.

would like to know the full story, but full sympathy to the girl
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #2 on: 13 October 2009, 13:09:46 »
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its shocking.....was there no hammer to smash it off, or water to try and pour in.

would like to know the full story, but full sympathy to the girl

It's just been discussed on the radio, apparrently they did try to smash it with a hammer .... obviously failed. :(
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #3 on: 13 October 2009, 13:18:42 »
Natural selection at its greatest.......
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #4 on: 13 October 2009, 13:23:47 »
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Natural selection at its greatest.......

Your sympathy touches me on so many levels Mark ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #5 on: 13 October 2009, 13:27:59 »
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Natural selection at its greatest.......

Your sympathy touches me on so many levels Mark ;D ;D ;D


If you are stupid enough to think stinking your hand in a bucket full of a substance that you know sets rock hard is a sensible thing to do.....then what more can I say!

It would be nice to think that most people would know this is a daft thing to do....or have we dumbed the world down with health and safety to the point where the youth of today cant carry out thier own on the fly risk assesments!

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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #6 on: 13 October 2009, 13:31:07 »
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We are confident that such an accident cannot occur again at our school.
What a plank.
The potential for an accident is with us every day of our lives, and it was that way of thinking that more than likely caused this incident in the first place.
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #7 on: 13 October 2009, 13:32:05 »
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Natural selection at its greatest.......

Your sympathy touches me on so many levels Mark ;D ;D ;D


If you are stupid enough to think stinking your hand in a bucket full of a substance that you know sets rock hard is a sesnsible thing to do.....then what more can I say!

It would be nice to think that most people would know this is a daft thing to do....or have we dumbed the world down with health and safety to the point where the youth of today cant carry out thier own on the fly risk assesments!


In a nutshell YES! I work in a primary school and the risk assessments we have to carry out is rediculous! The school would have got the blame for lack of supervision as the girl in question wasn't following the instructions she'd been given. The teacher/teaching assistant would have ultimately got the blame for not spotting this going on and correcting the girl.
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
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Natural selection at its greatest.......

Your sympathy touches me on so many levels Mark ;D ;D ;D


If you are stupid enough to think stinking your hand in a bucket full of a substance that you know sets rock hard is a sesnsible thing to do.....then what more can I say!

It would be nice to think that most people would know this is a daft thing to do....or have we dumbed the world down with health and safety to the point where the youth of today cant carry out thier own on the fly risk assesments!


In a nutshell YES! I work in a primary school and the risk assessments we have to carry out is rediculous! The school would have got the blame for lack of supervision as the girl in question wasn't following the instructions she'd been given. The teacher/teaching assistant would have ultimately got the blame for not spotting this going on and correcting the girl.

Yet, a large proportion of the blame has to lie with the individual as we should all be responsible for our actions
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #9 on: 13 October 2009, 13:35:46 »
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Yet, a large proportion of the blame has to lie with the individual as we should all be responsible for our actions

It should, but in the eyes of a court she was a minor and not properly supervised. What a mad world we live in  :-/
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #10 on: 13 October 2009, 13:36:55 »
gotta wonder how she thought she was gonna get her hands out!


can't have been a pleasant experience though  :-[
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #11 on: 13 October 2009, 13:41:51 »
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gotta wonder how she thought she was gonna get her hands out! ......

Agreed!That would have been amusing .... you'd have thought. But would you have expected the plaster of Paris to get that hot? I wouldn't  :-?
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #12 on: 13 October 2009, 13:43:51 »
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gotta wonder how she thought she was gonna get her hands out! ......

Agreed!That would have been amusing .... you'd have thought. But would you have expected the plaster of Paris to get [be ]that[/be ] hot? I wouldn't  :-?

She should be glad it wasn't lime based, that can hit boiling point as it sets!
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #13 on: 13 October 2009, 13:45:45 »
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She should be glad it wasn't lime based, that can hit boiling point as it sets!

Judging by what's left of her hands, it got to at least boiling point (of water) and more.
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Re: Fine as art pupil loses fingers -BBC
« Reply #14 on: 13 October 2009, 13:46:05 »
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or have we dumbed the world down with health and safety to the point where the youth of today cant carry out thier own on the fly risk assesments!
It's not just the youth of today that are affected.
We have spent so long creating cotton wool blankets, that pretty soon even something as simple as the common cold is going to be a real threat.

What also doesn't help is this "where there is blame, there is a claim" culture.

Here's a perfect example for you.....

If you step out in front of a car and get run over, the first person we try to blame is the driver.
If however you stepped in front of a train and got run over, nobody even thinks to start trying to blame the train driver because we (rightly) accept that you should look before crossing.

Back in my day we had (among other things) the Green Cross Code advert. This was blasted at us relentlessly during every commercial break, and (unsurprisingly) it was proven to work.

What crap do we get blasted at us now?
Drivers, kill your speed, not a child.

Complete crock of shit and wholly inaccurate IMO.
Simple fact is that we are ALL responsible for ourselves and others to varying degrees, and the sooner we start repeating those kind of messages, the better off we'll be!

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