WFKitemuseum.com Blasts UK Health & Safety Regulations

    LONDON, ENGLAND, November 27, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- An article published by WFKitemuseum.com has shown the multitude of weird and wonderful creations on offer in public parks around the world and argued that the increased health & safety culture in the UK is in danger of stifling creative community activity.

One project in England encouraged local youngsters to design park benches that would best reflect their local communities.

"Their designs which created recreational, private, music making and meeting spaces around their benches, were hugely inventive and reminded us just how crazy a bench can be!"

The article goes on to outline some of the strangest and in its own words 'maddest' bench creations of all time. Things like 'the bench toilet' and 'wheelbarrow bench' are in use today because of projects like the one run in the UK.

Despite the irreverent tone, one point in the article resonates loudly throughout - the impact health & safety is having on creativity in the community. WFKitemuseum.com maintains that the weird and wonderful creations showcased by the 'bench project' for under 18s in the UK alongside the many examples of creative benches in use around public parks globally, are in serious danger of being unique 'one offs'. The article argues that far from being healthy for a community, the restraints imposed by UK law could in fact be entirely unhealthy. Strained relations, bad attitudes and isolation have all increased in local communities where people have been hit with an ever increasing tide of rules and regulations imposed under the banner of 'Health & Safety'.

WFKitemuseum.com describes itself as a bastion of all things 'weird and wonderful' but that a damaging trend towards too much health and safety will inevitably cause more problems than it is trying to solve.

"Community projects like the bench project - designed to bring people together - are in serious danger of being snuffed out by the spectre of health and safety once again. What was supposed to be our guardian, is fast turning into a fascist 'Big Brother' nanny where our every move is monitored and controlled."

www.WFKitemuseum.com is dedicated to sharing all the strange, wonderful and weird news to be found around the world. Fred Kite (Founder) originally set up the site as a log of all the strange things he found in everyday life. Due to its popularity he opened the site to guest posting and more and more tales of the strange are surfacing everyday.

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