Better remove the water too. Don't want any drowning deaths.

Just fence off the beach. It's too dangerous.

It'll look so natural after they're done.

©

I know this is Fark but that's just ridiculous.

i thought you were not allowed to pick them up as souvenirs, make up your mind :O

FTFA:"We haven't had any reports of people being injured but they said that they might get injured,"

Might want to remove the water too.

You know, as much as I hate all the nanny state precious snowflake shiat that seems to be more and more common today, I am completely OK with this. Those shells hurt :(

NOW what's she supposed to sell???

...and every Fark headline cliche master jizzes in delight.

/DRTFA

Let me be the furst to say:

"fark the Nanny"

SUBBY IS A RETARD

"This is a highly-modified swimming beach in Port Phillip Bay, it's not like an ocean beach that obviously you wouldn't touch,"

It's a swimming beach for kids. The shells are not your usual sea shells but sharp-edged oyster shells. It's a public health issue to not have children bleeding all over the place.

You used nanny state just to get the greenlight. It's in australia, not britain though.

I really enjoyed the fact that they actually called themselves a nanny state in the article.

FTFA: A long-standing Sorrento resident, who did not want to be named, said the decision was "misguided, far-fetched" and reminiscent of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

I agree. I don't want to be named either.

bobthebuilderr: You know, as much as I hate all the nanny state precious snowflake shiat that seems to be more and more common today, I am completely OK with this. Those shells hurt :(

Man up Nancy

So the clerk asks me "Crushed nuts?"
I said "No; Shell shock."

Get rid of the damn bluebottles (yanks read; Man-O-Wars), almost stepped on a few yesterday at the beach.

/suburnt
//i can haz skin cansur?

bubbaprog: It's a public health issue to not have children bleeding all over the place.

According to TFA, there haven't been any children with bleeding feet. If there was mass carnage and widespread foot attrition, there might be an issue, but no problems have been reported.

Looked up Mornington Pensinsula, that's south of Melbounrne. I hear there are some nasty sharks around there. Better to just stay out of the water.

bubbaprog: SUBBY IS A RETARD

"This is a highly-modified swimming beach in Port Phillip Bay, it's not like an ocean beach that obviously you wouldn't touch,"

It's a swimming beach for kids. The shells are not your usual sea shells but sharp-edged oyster shells. It's a public health issue to not have children bleeding all over the place.

It's been like that for 20 years, and no one's bled to death. Yet.

sunburnt*

/i can haz brayn cansur 2.

FTA...Mr Stingel said the oyster shells were not part of the beach's natural ecosystem and were believed to have been dumped during a dredging project 20 years ago.

This is a highly-modified swimming beach in Port Phillip Bay, it's not like an ocean beach that obviously you wouldn't touch," he said. "I don't think it's Big Brother gone mad to remove hazardous things that can cause injuries to the public."


While I think removing them is a bit over the top, the shells aren't the ones washed ashore by the ocean surf. They were dumped on the beach during a former dredging project. FYI-oyster shells are really sharp too.

Hey, that's MY seashell collection. Leave it where it is, thank you.

Close the beach and send the little wimps home. Can't get injured if you stay home

The World is my Oyst-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

The over-reactions in the article and this thread are pathetic. They're getting rid of some sharp crap on a swimming beach that didn't arrive there naturally in the first place.

CarrieWhite: You used nanny state just to get the greenlight. It's in australia, not britain though.

its still a British colony, nothing to see here.

1. Put snakes on plane: The over-reactions in the article and this thread are pathetic. They're getting rid of some sharp crap on a swimming beach that didn't arrive there naturally in the first place.

RTFA

The only reason this is even marginally acceptable is this: The shells in question are, in effect, garbage left behind by some sort of building project. They do not occur there naturally. It's OK to remove garbage from the beach.

That said, it would be equally acceptable to leave them the fark alone and tell the kiddos to wear some farking sandals.

I'd rather remove these shells.

darkeyes: I'd rather remove these shells.

Ariel?!!

wanted for questioning:

Shoes.

Bam! I just solved the problem.

bojon: 1. Put snakes on plane: The over-reactions in the article and this thread are pathetic. They're getting rid of some sharp crap on a swimming beach that didn't arrive there naturally in the first place.

RTFA

I did, you imbecile. You would know that if you RTFA yourself.

My Dad and I were talking about tfa and we both agree what the 'Nanny state' is getting more and more big brother like.

wildsnowllama: darkeyes: I'd rather remove these shells.

Ariel?!!

I was going to post a pic of Ariel but then the whole pedo thing popped into my head...

wow, submitard, i can use a bunch of farking cliches, too, but I'm pretty sure Australia != England. So GEABOD and DIAF.

/potential cliche
//yet another potential cliche

Wear sandals. Or those supremely ugly "aqua socks".



/grew up on a beach where the bay was full of crabs.
//not those crabs, perverts.

State sieves seashells by the seashore

darkeyes: wildsnowllama: darkeyes: I'd rather remove these shells.

Ariel?!!

I was going to post a pic of Ariel but then the whole pedo thing popped into my head...

But you're thinking about her... right now... and you have the pics...

/♫Thought Criiiiiiime♫

you have got to be shiating me I mean really shiating me.

wildsnowllama: darkeyes: wildsnowllama: darkeyes: I'd rather remove these shells.

Ariel?!!

I was going to post a pic of Ariel but then the whole pedo thing popped into my head...

But you're thinking about her... right now... and you have the pics...

/♫Thought Criiiiiiime♫

Hmmm. If you have the pics it's beyond a thought crime...

It's Australia? Shouldn't they worry more about the deadly box jellyfish? And the snakes? And the spiders? And the rip tides? And the hole in the ozone?

jenny next: It's Australia? Shouldn't they worry more about the deadly box jellyfish? And the snakes? And the spiders? And the rip tides? And the hole in the ozone?

and koalas...

/Seriously, look it up.
//Viscous...
///Slashes

CarrieWhite: You used nanny state just to get the greenlight. It's in australia, not britain though.

I was hoping someone noticed that. You can't just throw cliches around inaccurately and haphazardly. Or wait, you can, and it gets you greens. I see.

How will I wipe if they take away my sea shells?

OMG, nanny state nanny state! Next thing you know they'll be removing things like seaweed and dead fish! Somebody had better stop Big Brother NOW!!

Well, here's another one for you: the soil in Yankee Stadium has been sifted so there are no rocks in it.

jenny next: It's Australia? Shouldn't they worry more about the deadly box jellyfish? And the snakes? And the spiders? And the rip tides? And the hole in the ozone?

And the poison thing that lives in a shell that spikes you when you pick it up.

Wow, both nanny state and precious snowflakes in the same headline; a two-fer for the easily amused.

My only problem when I go to the beach is cigarette butts. I don't want to walk barefoot through an ashtray.