Roof running warning
Roof running is a risk that's not worth taking.
Read below an account from a victim and the parent of the victim.
The Victim:
" I went to retrieve my football from the back of a shop roof not thinking of the danger. I was just walking along as it was a flat roof and then all of a sudden I went crashing through onto a concrete floor. I hit my back first and then bashed my head.
I was very lucky, but if I couldn't walk because of that fall I would have hated it. That would have been my life restricted for some time or forever. Next time if that happens, I'll leave the football on the roof."
The parent:
I'm so thankful that it wasn't a more serious outcome. I knew someone else who fell through a roof and wasn't so lucky. He had brain damage and had to learn to walk and talk again, it was a long road to recovery and he almost lost his life.
Tom has promised he will be staying away from rooftops in the future."