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Quote: Originally posted by Capt Lightning on 07/11/2019

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Just as well we don't have church bells here or somebody would start a 'Ban the Bell' petition.

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Quote: PubMed reports that “Seventy nine injuries [among bell ringers] were identified both from review and by advertisement in Ringing World. The incidence of injury among 221 ringers identified by postal questionnaire was 1.8% a year.” It concluded that “Although sonerous, bell ringing can be dangerous and occasionally even fatal. Doctors should be aware of the dangers to which campanologists expose themselves.”

Quote: a group of bell ringers in Somerset who had to run for it after a bell broke loose and crashed through two floors of the bell tower. They’d noticed that one bellwas hard to ring, so they gave its rope a good hard yank.

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