Elf And Safety

[sunny-dave]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/road-project-in-iceland-delayed-to-protect-hidden-elves-9021768.html

Can we find some Goblins on the HS2 route please?

[boxtops]

For a moment, I thought it was April 1st!

[youngmafbog]

Well we let in anyone else so lets pull them in (and house them on the route!)

[Zacs-Master]

'Friends of Lava' seem to be very good at publicising their environmental causes through this headline grabbing announcement. Very clever.

[Tilly2]

I like this quote at the end

“Everyone is aware that the land is alive, and one can say that the stories of hidden people and the need to work carefully with them reflects an understanding that the land demands respect.”

[jno]

for fairly similar reasons, you wouldn't put a motorway through Glastonbury Tor. We have a concept of sacred ground too.

[mikey4444]

Complete tosh...is it any wonder that their banking system went t*ts up !

[sunny-dave]

At least they then put the errant bankers (sp?) in gaol, mikey - which is more than we did ...

[mikey4444]

True sunnydave, true !

[youngmafbog]

No we didnt, but that is because being cr*p at your job or plain stupid is not yet a crime in this country.

Bankers that break the law do go to jail in this country, for quite lengthy periods.

[KARL]

Iceland has its eccentrics like any other country. There are media reports in Iceland referring to the distraction and complete fiction regarding this road being carried by foreign media, the article under reference being among the milder cases. Because protesters (almost all simply environmentalists and "not in my back yard" folk) have lodged a case in court, an injunction has been issued, that's all - the works are already well advanced and sit-ins did not succeed in halting it. I am unsure exactly whether there is more than a single person speaking up for the hidden people, but I know there is one prominent woman there. None of this has anything to do with banking. Icelandic banks began to collapse slightly behind the British ones but were put on a fast track by Gordon Brown's diversionary tactic of officially putting Iceland (yes, the country and nation, not just the banks) on a terrorist list. The whole issue eventually went to a European court and Britain not only lost but was admonished along with the IMF and others. Meanwhile recovery from the crisis is going much better in Iceland than in the UK, for example with a 4.2% unemployment rate in November.

[jake-the-peg]

//In a survey conducted by the University of Iceland in 2007, 62 per cent of those asked thought it was at least possible that the critters exist.//

Seriously?

[KARL]

Ask people in any neighbourhood whether they think there is a god and you might get a higher percentage, but the level of proof would be precisely the same :)