Diving onto rocks not safe shock!
Sometimes you have to sympathise with the locals in Cornwall’s picturesque seaside towns. Living in one of the most attractive places in Britain comes at a cost. During the summer, if they’re not being kept awake by late night revellers they’re stumbling across injured bodies on the rocks belonging to Australians who think that a surface covering of water cushions your fall.
The following diagram illustrates their mistake.
The latter pastime, of jumping into the sea from cliff edges, is called tombstoning by the people who do it, but ‘bloody stupid’ by onlookers. People have even died as a result, which means one less annoyance for the locals, but a mess on the rocks sure to put you off your cream tea until a couple of tides have cleaned it up. Falmouth Coastguard Watch Manager James Instance says that it is ‘not a safe activity at all’. He proceeded to point out that the tide comes in and out and that it’s dark at night. Anyone wanting to contact Mr Instance for more illuminating and philosophical gems should do so through Falmouth Council.
Posted: August 1st, 2005 under In Passing.
Comments: 8
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Comment from wyndham
Time: August 2, 2005, 4:42 pm
Mind you, don’t Cambridge students also do this kind of thing and they are meant to be our country’s finest minds.
*wyndham shakes head very, very slowly, and purses lips.*
Comment from Marlowe
Time: August 2, 2005, 5:01 pm
Hi Wyndham, don’t forget that half of Cambridge students still come out of public schools (for Americans that actually means private). It’s probably compulsory there.
Comment from hibiscus anne
Time: August 2, 2005, 7:28 pm
“probably compulsory there”
Ha!
“Hazing”, we’d call it. Stupid, many times dangerous stunts done to gain initiation into a campus (uni) fraternity or sorority.
Comment from Marlowe
Time: August 2, 2005, 11:26 pm
I never experienced it at university, but at my secondary school you were supposed to get chucked off a wall. It was all a bit tame when it came to it though.
Comment from wyndham
Time: August 3, 2005, 9:54 am
Going down the slide on your front was as hair-raising as it got at my school.
Comment from newsandrumor
Time: August 5, 2005, 12:43 pm
Hurry! Cambridge announces new academic prize in applied physics. Successful candidates need only demonstrate a practical understanding of Newton’s 2nd Law. Last year more than 15 students were awarded prizes posthumously. 2 students could not be identified due to lack of dental records.
Comment from S. L. Cunningham
Time: August 14, 2005, 12:29 am
If you die from diving onto the rock, do they find you stone cold? Hmmm.
Comment from J Instance
Time: October 3, 2005, 9:26 pm
It is generally colder in winter.
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