Brainless in Stoke-on-Trent

Acts of brainless stupidity have broken out in Stoke-on-Trent. Carers have withdrawn from helping out an immobile and incontinent pensioner because her husband had a starting pistol for pigeon racing in their house.
So care firm Creative Support, employed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, just pulled out of helping poor old Nancy Nicklin. They just didn't turn up, leaving Nancy and husband John to carry on alone.
You would have thought that after all the anger over how social services behaved in the Baby P case that a bit more cerebral activity would go on before leaving a helpless pensioner without any care.
Now they've been given two care visits instead of four while an investigation into the "gun" incident is carried out.
Pathetic. Creative Care and Stoke-on-Trent City Council should hang their collective heads down in shame.
This so-called gun doesn't even fire anything. It is no worse than a child having a cap gun. It just goes bang! Even Staffordshire police say it's OK.
If care workers are going to stop visiting because of this what next? What about the seven inch knife most people have in their kitchen draw to carve their Sunday roast?
"Sorry sir, we cannot visit you from now on because you have an offensive carving knife..your wife will just have to get bed sores..." Great.
It's time that council and care services stopped sticking to the rules and started making some judgements using commonsense.
Anyone using a bit of sense would have realised that Baby P was in severe danger and needed to be removed from his family immediately. Anyone with commonsense would realise that a starting gun is not a dangerous weapon.
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