Stay off the jetty, sailing club warns Canvey kids (From Echo)

If these kids injure or kill themselves that is their problem and the problem of their parents, who obviously have no idea or do not care what their kids are doing.
As long as all reasonable effort is made to warn of the dangers and resrict access then that is all you can do. Maybe, only a tradgedy will make them finally take heed.

emcee wrote:
If these kids injure or kill themselves that is their problem and the problem of their parents, who obviously have no idea or do not care what their kids are doing.
As long as all reasonable effort is made to warn of the dangers and resrict access then that is all you can do. Maybe, only a tradgedy will make them finally take heed.

Well there just kids and thats their idea of fun aint it. I used to do stupid stuff as a kid too. Luckily I was never seriously hurt. I think the last thing the club owners want is a young kid laying dead or seriously hurt, even if they was doing wrong, on their own patch of land. So maybe thats why they are doing this.

it's called natural selection, or more plainly survival of the fittest - shouldn't stand in the way of nature....

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Basildon.lad.21 wrote:

emcee wrote: If these kids injure or kill themselves that is their problem and the problem of their parents, who obviously have no idea or do not care what their kids are doing. As long as all reasonable effort is made to warn of the dangers and resrict access then that is all you can do. Maybe, only a tradgedy will make them finally take heed.

Well there just kids and thats their idea of fun aint it. I used to do stupid stuff as a kid too. Luckily I was never seriously hurt. I think the last thing the club owners want is a young kid laying dead or seriously hurt, even if they was doing wrong, on their own patch of land. So maybe thats why they are doing this.

The kids on Canvey are in a different league to most. Let them do what they want and Natural Selection will do the rest.

Kids aren't as daft some seem to think. Take a look at the sea bed by the side of the jetty when the tides out and you'll see it's picked clean of rocks and glass. They've made such a good job of it their handiwork is visible on Google Maps.

I understand the clubs position (H&S), but why would anyone cut their way in through a six foot fence to jump off the jetty?

It's easier for them to swim to the end and walk up it.

The club were asked to put the fence up by the Town Council following complaints that the damage at the end of the jetty made it unsafe.

Kids who want to jump off the jetty will swim round the fence and climb back on the other side, so the fence is there to restrict as much access as possible.

The kids in the report ripped the fence to bits not only causing damage to private property, but also allowing others on to risk their safety.

Not the best idea that club official had to take photos of 12-14 year olds messing about in the water.
They have done their job by fencing off with sign-age in place what more can they do really, in my Grandads day the young whippersnappers would have got a thick ear.

DogsMessInLeigh wrote:
Not the best idea that club official had to take photos of 12-14 year olds messing about in the water.
They have done their job by fencing off with sign-age in place what more can they do really, in my Grandads day the young whippersnappers would have got a thick ear.

The club member took photos of the kids vandalising the fence to show the police, but they were not interested. Intead the photos were shared out locally and the kids were identified. Their parents have been approached to pay or the damage. The tide was out at the time and no kids were in the water, so innaccuracies in his report.

DogsMessInLeigh wrote:
Not the best idea that club official had to take photos of 12-14 year olds messing about in the water.
They have done their job by fencing off with sign-age in place what more can they do really, in my Grandads day the young whippersnappers would have got a thick ear.

To be honest, anybody can take photos of anybody else, adults or children, doing whatever they are doing. As long as the photo is taken from a public place, or on private property in which the photographer has a right or permission to take photos, there is not a single thing anyone can do about it, as long as any identifyng images are not used commercially.

emcee wrote:

DogsMessInLeigh wrote:
Not the best idea that club official had to take photos of 12-14 year olds messing about in the water.
They have done their job by fencing off with sign-age in place what more can they do really, in my Grandads day the young whippersnappers would have got a thick ear.

To be honest, anybody can take photos of anybody else, adults or children, doing whatever they are doing. As long as the photo is taken from a public place, or on private property in which the photographer has a right or permission to take photos, there is not a single thing anyone can do about it, as long as any identifyng images are not used commercially.

A good point emcee makes. This wording in the story is wholly innaccurate "a club official took pictures of youngsters playing on the jetty and jumping into the water."

The image that accompanies this story (it's in the printed Echo) is of the kids on the jetty (which is private property) in the act of taking the fence apart. It was offered to the police officers who came along, but they were not interested.

Hopefully one slips, and lands face first on a rock and ends up with locked in syndrome, and the courts refuse his right to die.