Apparently there are health and safety issues inherent
when you’re building bonfires to celebrate the suppression of religious minorities,
as people will be doing all over the UK tonight.
(Oh, alright—officially Guy Fawkes Day is about the
foiling of a plot to blow up Parliament in 1605. And the plotters were Roman
Catholic. Which gave Church of England Protestants reasons to stick it to
Catholics in particular and everyone who wasn’t CoE in general for centuries to
come. This evolved into the Bonfire Night activities of today.)
So, yes—check under your pile of wood for any cute little
critters that might be inadvertently char-be-cued in your death-to-Catholics
ritual.
I expect the danger to humans increases with the
consumption of alcohol, as well. But the health and safety folks probably
reckon that the lager lout crowd won’t be reading caution posters, so they don’t
bother with them.
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