Nik Wallenda, the Niagara Gorge and Being watched by the Safety Police

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Nik Wallenda, the Niagara Gorge and Being watched by the Safety Police

I am not sure that you caught report from Niagara Falls of Ontario and New York. Wow! Another guy is going to walk across the Niagara Gorge on a tight rope! Can you imagine???!

That was outlawed years ago, but now someone has allowed the application of
Nik Wallenda to the Niagara Parks Commission to be approved and it will now be allowed.

From reports that I read it will bring in mega millions of dollars for the Niagara area which has been hurting in recent years with the downturn in the tourist industry. At least that is what has been suggested in the media.

When my wife and I heard that news flash on the Radio last week we together said a BIG WOW!

Why WOW!?

In an article published in the Ottawa Citizen today, written by Elizabeth Payne, a concern I have is outlined for us to consider.

No I am not concerned about anyone walking across a tight rope over a huge, boiling water mass, in front of the entire world, where everyone thinks he might fall in and die… Nope that doesn’t bother me at all. People do stupid things all the time. YouTube Videos have far more dangerous things recorded than that!

What it has done is point to our overly cautious society and the tail spin that it will be in as this is allowed.

Elizabeth points to something we all know is happening now. We are very cautious about everything that we do now… and society in general does anything and everything to protect itself against danger. OR SOMEONE IN SOCIETY IS TRYING TO PROTECT ME from danger!

No I am not saying that doing dangerous stuff is good necessarily… it is fun – or at least used to be… now it is TOO DANGEROUS! TOO DARN DANGEROUS FOR ANYONE WITH A THINKING MIND TO DO SUCH SILLY THINGS!

Elizabeth pointed to the fact that drinking alcohol in Public Park is considered dangerous – so it is not allowed. Well I see it as Obnoxious – not Dangerous – but under the Danger sign it is ruled out.

She tells of a group in Ottawa that was kicked off the Rideau Canal because of possible danger. I am not sure what happened, but it kind of sounded like they were trying to drink and skate too – at the same time.

DUH! Why do we need more rules to keep people from doing something stupid like skating when you are drunk? Most people have enough common sense that they do not have to be told or given a new ruling on Danger. DOUBLE DUH! When you drink your sensory system is way out of whack… and trying to skate at the same time will make you go BOOM! Ouch! Umph!

You do not need a ruling or law for that.

But years ago someone ruled out letting people like Nik Wallenda walk on a tight ropes above the Niagara Gorge. Either it was too dangerous for the tight rope walker or for the thousands of people that pushed in close to the very edge of the Gorge to get a look at the idiot walking across. It is likely that some fell over the edge of the Gorge trying to see what was going on.

And after Nik does this stunt, others will apply and want their turn a little bit of fame as well. Where will it stop?

That doesn’t bother me – really.

What bothers me is that for years we did silly and even stupid things… and we lived to tell about it. Yes some people got hurt and maybe even worse. But that was called LIFE and no one needed to regulate it to death.

But we live in a huge dichotomy of everything. We see that it is still okay to let Hockey Players smash each other within a few inches of death – or more likely ruining their possibility to play again… We think it is okay for them to fight and pound on each other – just so the ratings will continue to fly high on TV.

That is okay.

But letting ordinary people skate on the ice without a helmet on is not good at all. No kidding in some arenas now ordinary people cannot glide around the ice without having a helmet on!

That is STUPID!

Last night I skated around a rink again. One more time. This is my 63rd year of doing so… without a helmet.

Last night I saw all the kids wearing their helmets and trying to skate. Some fell down but none every hit their heads… it was always their bottoms or legs…

I am suffering today from an Overly CAUTIOUS WORLD… and the Cautious guards that guard everything I do… but miss the important things.

I am betting now that the Overly Cautious World’s – “Caution Police” will not allow Nik Wallenda to cross the Niagara Gorge without a helmet on, a flotation jacket of some sort on, safety boots, and a very long rope attached to his safety harness strapped around his body.

When the Caution Police get done, Nik will be okay and we can all sleep well at night.

I think I will go shopping on Senior’s Day at the Mall. The parking lot will be full of old codgers that are downright dangerous. Oh NUTS! They will soon start making us old fellas wear those dumb helmets soon. We are a danger to ourselves and others – just walking around!

~ Murray Lincoln ~
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Resource:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Something+look/6182581/story.html