To prevent foolhardy prospectors from starving, the Mounties were refusing to let travellers cross the border unless they had a year's supply of food, and the brother-in-law was also willing to pay for their "grubstakes".
A video of a meteorologist Eric Holthaus went viral when he demonstrated how quickly boiling water turned to snow in temperatures of -21 in Viroqua, Wisconsin A foolhardy chap from Minnesota decided to attempt this dangerous experiment of seeing what would happen if he urinated in -27C.
With over a billion checkins now behind it, it's going to be hard for a new "checkin" app to take on Foursquare, but that hasn't prevented some brave (foolhardy?) companies from trying.
Its imperfections date from foolhardy planning interventions by the New South Wales state government 47 years ago.
It's brave, perhaps even foolhardy, to go from the near at hand to something as unfamiliar as Soviet Russia in 1948 and 1972, and the internal workings of a police state.
Robinson, who could have had a hat-trick had the ball bounced more in his favour, was put over after a searing midfield break from a scrum by the centre Jamie Roberts, and Spice crossed after the Blues pounced on a foolhardy cross-kick from Toby Flood in his own 22.
Paul Tidball, governor of the Prison Governors Assocation, recently said: "For prisons to become less effective in reducing offending is tragic enough, and against the interests of society and the taxpayer, but the potential catastrophe of widespread disorder resulting from foolhardy cuts takes the debate to another level".
Paul Tidball, chairman of the Prison Governors Association, recently observed: "For prisons to become less effective in reducing offending is tragic enough, and against the interests of our society and the taxpayer, but the potential catastrophe of widespread disorder resulting from foolhardy cuts takes the debate to another level".
