With parents asstupid as this, what is wrong with allowing 15 year olds to Inter rail

BigBopper

Like my old dad would say, "if all their brains were dynamite it wouldn't blow their hats off".

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Shouldn't laugh really, these people get to vote...

In sand to be safe they need to slope very very gently, for a 2 metre deep hole, with say a 5% gradient. It would need to be very wide. - 10-15 metres?

You can dig a deep hole as long as the sides are sloping outwards.

An old dog of ours, known as Bonkers, used to dig a massive hole on the beach and nearly disappear into it - evidently in order to find a crab right at the bottom.

You had to be careful to move your sunbed well away - a friend’s sunbed once partially collapsed into his energetic excavations.

We were having a mini break in Cornwall one March and were walking along the seafront. It was pitch dark and wild and windy weather, and the tide was in and breaking over the harbour wall. We were walking well back from the edge.

Several children aged about six were playing on the harbour steps in the dark leaping up as large waves came splashing in. There were adults standing outside the pub a few yards away, drinks in hand and chatting.... possibly the parents.

I was worried about those children as one slip and they'd be in deep water and perhaps washed out to sea. I couldn't stand it and went over to warn them, then got shouted at by someone who I imagine was a parent.

Like my old dad would say, "if all their brains were dynamite it wouldn't blow their hats off".

As a child on holiday we would attempt to dig deep holes but after a short time of frenzied digging a parent would arrive, admire it and then suggest it was filled in in case some one fell into it.

Exactly, M0nica - I'm sure many of us, our children and grandchildren have dug holes on the beach before now, but there's a big difference between digging a small hole and one which is several feet deep. It is, as others have pointed out, an accident waiting to happen and one which has sadly had tragic consequences before.
And Babs03, a few years ago my daughter and her friend were on holiday in Turkey and there were a few families staying at the same small apartment complex. The parents would sit drinking at the pool bar while the children - some of them just toddlers - played around the pool. One little girl fell into the pool and was clearly in trouble - my daughter had to jump in and pull her out, while the parents remained oblivious to the whole thing. When she took the girl back to them, they didn't seem remotely bothered and didn't even thank her.

PsmQS You must lead a charmed life. I cannot envisage a situation where I would have been allowed to do something so dangerous, nor would I ever have allowed my children do so.

Dig a hole 18 inches or possible 2 foot deep, yes, but 6 foot or
more? These fatal accidents arise where childen dig holes that they can hide in standing up. Did your parents really let you dig holes that deep?

There is something called The Darwin principle' where people kill themselves through doing something stupid. But killing your children or other peoples through adult stupidity, takes this principle beyond all acceptable bounds.

We always used to dig a deep hole on the beach! It never collapsed on us, fortunately, and I suppose it gave us something to do.

Not that long ago a beautiful little girl died in a tunnel built by Daddy on the beach. I think that was in Cornwall.

Also a young boy ended up in hospital when we were living in the Canaries. His father thought it was hilarious to dig a deep hole at the water's edge, sit the boy in and allow waves to hit him. Which of course they did and the child damaged his spine.

It is baffling how some people don't appear to see danger even when they're putting their children at risk

So amazingly stupid, not only could the children suffocate if the walls collapsed but in leaving the hole without filling it in someone could have fallen into it.
I have also encountered toddlers hurtling towards swimming pools when on holiday whilst the parents are laid back on sunloungers reading or looking at their phones. Have had to rescue said toddlers by blocking their way and returning them to their parents on more than one occasion.
What is wrong with these people?

At our local park I often see parents of very young children sitting on a bench totally absorbed in looking at there phones while their little ones get pushed off swings, fall over, hit another child etc.

I agree with you, it’s beyond crazy and so very dangerous you’d think the parents would have to have the IQ of a banana to stand and watch.I do remember reading about tragic accidents where a child suffocated.

I wonder if they all left with happy memories and still think everything was fine.
Or if they've seen the publicity.