Having seen all the comments in the Oxford Mail about the festivity and stupidity on May Day, I think I am ready to comment.

I am amazed that people are concerned about how much the event costs the health service, the police and any other emergency organisations.

Are these pillars of the community trying to say that none of them are smokers and drinkers, have accidents or add costs to anything that is paid for by taxpayers, or is it just that they don't take part in this event?

Secondly, I would be even more amazed if none of the people who are complaining spend more of my tax contribution than I do.

I have no children to use the education system, I work for a living, have never claimed benefits, use a moderate amount of the health service resource and am still happy that some of my hard-earned money enables a few teenagers and 20- somethings to make idiots of themselves.

Of course, I see the dangers in jumping off Magdalen Bridge, but life is dangerous in so many other ways -- there are diseases, murders, road accidents and old age, all of which claim more of humanity than this evil bridge in Oxford.

If any of your readers think that the world can be 100 per cent safe and that focusing on Magdalen Bridge will make a great difference to the safety of humanity, need I say more? Tony Shillingford, Wychwood Close, Carterton