Health and Safety Executive finds role in pantomime
From the ‘has the world gone mad?’ department:
Pantomime gun must be registered
A Cornish village drama group has had to register a toy gun with the police to comply with health and safety rules. Carnon Downs drama group in Cornwall have also had to keep their plastic cutlasses and wooden swords locked up for the pantomime, Robinson Crusoe. Producers of the show called the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) rules ‘farcical’. A spokesman for the HSE said the rules were designed to make risks ’sensibly managed’.
The gun produces a flag with the word ‘bang’ written on it.
