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Message # 11287.1 Subject: Re: News headlines: fountains drying up Date: Thu 22/07/04 14:56:02 GMT Name: MK Email: wamtec@compuserve.com |
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Yeah...I saw it featured on several tv spots....totally hopeless for wetlook possibilities...cos the water is only ankle deep...and rushes by quite dangerously ....like water in a gutter running into a drain...very easy to cause kids to slip over.
I could see how dangerous it was from the tv spots...standing in ankle deep water that is zooming around in a huge circular "drainage ditch"..which is an apt name to describle how it looks. Somebody was probably paid millions to design this "work or art"....I had a ditch like that running by the side of my old ranch...we call that a culvert here in Florida...and you don't need a designer to make it....just rent a backhoe and it will dig the job for you in 2-3 hours... ha ha.
I am amazed that the designer did not consider the safety ramifications when they opened it to the public....it is about as dangerous as a weir is.
I am trying to think what this monument was supposed to portray....a circle of ankle deep rushing water....it's beyond me.
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In reply to Message (11287) News headlines: fountains drying up
By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Thu 22/07/04 13:54:47 GMT In case you haven't heard...
A somewhat controversial fountain in London, built as a memorial to Princess Diana, which some critics have described as "little more than a granite drainage ditch" has been closed (the water shut off) due to safety reasons. Apparently a lot of visitors have taken to wading in the shallow water, and a few have slipped and fallen, sustaining injuries. It was completed earlier this year, and was only offically opened earlier this month.
In related news, several days ago a "water garden" in Dallas Fort Worth was closed following an incident in which 4 people drowned. The structure will be recognizeable to fans of the movie "Logan's Run" as it appears in a couple of scenes. The drownings resulted when some young children fell into a swirling pool at the base of the structure. Given the obvious hazards, what people in their right minds would let their kids near such a thing?
In government's headlong rush to protect us from ourselves, wetlook's simplest pleasures may be disappearing.
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