bought the system down when it gobbled up 30% .  Hardly surprising really; if I was a curmudgeonly conservative, I might be tempted to say that investment banking came up against the limiting factor that all parasites are subject to- damaging their hosts. "Safety" culture also springs from an anecdotal fallacy- and it's even more destructive of civil society than occasional excesses of greed. When someone somewhere (the USA in this case) gets burnt by hot coffee (and wins a huge settlement against its provider),  very soon every coffee provider in the world is required to take extensive precautions  against this possibility; with a total cost to the general economy far in excess of the risk being mitigated.  And it's self perpetuating; the more rules and warnings there are, the more atrophied our awareness of danger becomes.  If headstone messages again become fashionable, "but there was no sign" is sure to become a popular epitaph. Kite fliers are increasingly caught by this net.  Running kite events is now more about 'compliance' with extensive, arcane and frequently irrelevant 'safety' rules than it is about actual kite flying. But maybe there's some sense in this. Kite flying IS dangerous. At kite flying after match functions (and while sitting around waiting for wind), conversation often turns to tales of crashes and accidents. I'm currently doing four events in Germany, and I've heard some good ones here. One involved a Deustches Telecom earthing pin.  These are one metre long 5kgm galvanised steel tapered ground