A bid to alter the situation of one among Cornwall’s oldest video games and swap pennies for chocolate cash has been dubbed ”well being and security gone mad”.
Hurling the Silver Ball, proper, believed to be 1,000 years outdated, is because of be held in St Ives on February 5. It begins with a ball thrown to youngsters on the harbour seashore. Council bosses wished to shift the occasion to a different seashore after excessive tides revealed jagged rocks, however have been narrowly defeated.
Security chiefs added chocolate cash must be used as a result of youngsters have been hit within the eyes by pennies and tangerines wrapped in foil thrown as decoys to the ball.
However the sport marks the 1434 consecration of the city’s harbour parish church…the one place, opponents say, to start out the sport. Councillor Andrew Mitchell stated: ”The mayor throwing tangerines wrapped in tin foil? How would a chocolate coin hitting you within the eye be much less of an issue than an precise penny?
”That is well being and security gone mad.”
St Ives’ mayor JohnnieWells stated of the standoff: ”It is a bit of a nightmare.
”We are actually ready to see if the insurance coverage firms will let [the game] occur.”