Nah let em die I say and give them a Darwin award. Stupid people should be praised for offing themselves and improving our gene pool. If someone goes to all the effort of climbing a huge fence just so they can jump to their death in the name of fun, like i saw on the news yesterday, then they deserve our cheers and their five minutes of (posthumous) fame. Set up some stands and cameras so we can all enjoy the spectacle. Way better than some confected "reality" show. LOL

In the spirit of Antiseptic's suggestion, I have another.

In order to protect children from online predators, we should make it illegal to miss represent your age to a youngster - or at the very least make it illegal to say you younger than you are. Nobody has a good reason to tell a white lie about their age, so if find someone who does so online they are obviously doing it to fool our kids. With this law in place, we can remove them from society before they do any damage.

And if there is a very rare occasion when someone lies about their age and isn't about to molest a child - well as you so rightfully say Antiseptic, someone has to think of the children. Having a "I wasn't going to molest a child" as a defence is a loophole so wide a small army of online predators could pass through it unnoticed.

The great thing about my suggestion is it isn't original. That exemplary father and outstanding politician, Senator Nick Xenophon has seen the light and is pushing for this right now:

http://www.news.com.au/national/fake-teen-predators-could-face-jail/story-e6frfkw9-1225824962653

Note: what the newspaper article doesn't say is in the private members bill Xenophon is pushing people found to be representing themselves as minors but who do not intend to prey on anyone will also be libel for 3 years jail. So Grannies (Foxy!) beware: the days of telling white lies about your age to the grand kids about your are over!

PS: Xenophon is a lawyer. He understands the implications of his proposal.

Dear rstuart,

My grandson is only 10 days old -
all I can do at present is cuddle
and sing to him.

But when he's a bit older - instead of
lying to him - I'll buy him a T-shirt
with:

"My Gran's a Fox!"

on it.

How's that?

And he won't have trouble with water either.
He adores his bath-time! Teaching him to swim
will be easy!

Well if you ask me we couldn't go wrong with demanding all water-users be required to wear floatational rings whenever they enter the water- and if possible a tether to ensure they never accidentally swim too far from shore (or if it's a pool, swim into the deep end).
Possibly even a "swimming license" too.

Failure to do so will result in fines and loss of license, and swimming without a license may result in harsher penalties.

Australians will get used to it quickly, as we already do something similar with seatbelts (it is suitable that the one driving mispractice that only endangers the willing individual be the most serious standard offense on the road).

You are kidding!

Perhaps charge the carers of drowned children with 'neglect causing death', but that's about as far as it should go.

Once again you want to restrict everyones rights just to resolve a problem.

Responsible people should not be punished for the wrong doings of others.