... Speedy Petey
I'll give my opinion and try to back that up with fact if I can ... This is the ONLY smart thing you've written in this whole thread.
and do you have any facts to back that up?!
Well Lee based on some to the statements you have made in this thread I am lead to believe that you haven’t said very many things that make very much sense.
Here you say;
That "contraption" is nothing other than a step ladder, and the nearby pipe is laying in the branches of a tree. The ladder and pipe are tied together, thereby making everything quite stable and the child's mother is watching from just beyond the camera's view. When the facts are known, there is no safety issue there.
but here you say;
Hardly so. The pipe is not even in the ladder. It is leaning into the branches of the tree and the ladder is simply alongside.
You even point out to us that
You crack me up! As long as we are on the ground, my grandchildren are at times right there alongside as my son-in-law and I work on our addition, and those boys have yet to receive a single scratch anywhere! We have some simple "safety rules" we *never* compromise, and my grandchildren are learning safety right along with driving nails into large blocks of soft wood.
When I then read your statement that;
A good trainer can help keep people relatively safe without their having to do very much analytical thinking. Rather than merely telling people *what* to think, however, a good teacher helps people learn to actually do so ... and I personally prefer teachers over trainers.
I do understand that a child such as pictured under a ladder (between two and three years old) with a 20 foot plus pipe tied to it and leaned in a tree with a flexible hose connect to the end of the pipe, the closest adult at least 20 to 25 feet away is a prime example of keeping the child
relatively safe without their having to do very much analytical thinking.
Now I am beginning to understand why you are making this remark when someone makes the statement that cutting energized conductors with a pruning sheer is dangerous;
..Generally speaking, even Bob would likely agree even though that statement was not actually true in his own case.
I am beginning to understand that your analytical thinking brings you to the conclusion that if it works it must be safe. You analyze the safety issues through the process of, “it didn’t fall so it must be safe or Bob didn’t get electrocuted so it must be safe.
In closing I only hope and pray that this child has the metal ability to analyze the fact that when this pipe tied to a ladder with a flexible hose connected has pressure coming from the highest end that the force applied will exert a force that opposes the direction on the base of the ladder and there might be enough movement to topple everything to the ground.
I also hope that this child has the metal ability to analyze the fact that a service drop supplying a house has enough energy to burn his body to a crisp in less than a second. Based on your comments through out this thread (I have no idea what was being discussed in the thread where the ladder fountain was originally posted) it is obvious that you ability to analyze the danger in these methods falls far short of the dangers involved.
I must also make the statement that I pray that this child can find someone that does understand the dangers and is
a good teacher helps people learn.
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