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Reading my Angling mail this week I see Maidstone's litter enforcement officers are doing sterling job. Some kids fishing in the city centre were handed £80 fines for littering. Good little sh1ts I hear you say. Their heinous crime throwing grains of sweet corn into the river as loose feed to entice the fish to feed and hopefully take the piece of corn with the hook in it. For those that don't fish this is a standard practice. Mind you these are the same clowns who also gave a £80 fine for throwing bread to the ducks 
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The law is an ass, until it gets into the hands of council officials then it becomes a three legged duck.
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I read earlier today that some kid in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets got fined £150 for having a little stall in her street selling homemade lemonade under the supervision of her Mum.
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/fatherhood/5-year-old-daughter-fined-150-selling-lemonade/ |
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How exactly do they impose these fines ?
If an enforcement officer issued me an £80 fine for feeding ducks, it wouldn't be possible for him to get the money off me |
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Wasn't there a tv advert on recently for a bank that encouraged this type of thing?
Could be a follow up. |
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I wish the maidstone's litter enforcement officers came and fined the little tykes who play on our private park and then leave mattresses, bikes, shopping trolleys there. I have been at my flat for over three years and this is the first time it has happened. I have a glorious view and now it is spoiled
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SH the Old bill were called who b0ll0cked the kids for wasting police time (bit of a contradiction) who made them accept the tickets
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Actually the father got the fine for the lemonade stall, not the 5 year old girl. He writes a column for the Telegraph. He seems to have got off the fine by complaining in his Telegraph column. I wonder if other less privileged people would have achieved the same result.
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One hidden cause is that that the uniformed drones who issue these tickets are now treated as, well, uniformed drones who are not allowed to use their own initiative or turn a blind eye. If they don't follow the script word for word, they can be sacked.
So the public is unfairly treated by unbending jobsworths who earn peanuts, and the thinking is left to Oxbridge graduates on six-figure salaries. |
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So someone is employed to fine people who feed the ducks? There's got to be an easier way to earn a crust.
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I find it strange to read this and then contemplate the hideous rise in violent crime. Sort of upside down in priority is it not?
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One day they're dropping litter the next day attacking people while riding mopeds, it just escalates.
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It's all about controlling the population. The message to ordinary people who would never commit serious crime is 'Don't step out of line or else!"
Keeps the elites in control. |
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Meanwhile we have Moped Mobs Marauding , throwing Acid and Stabbing People to death for their watches .
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casemoney 21 Jul 17 19:02
Meanwhile we have Moped Mobs Marauding , throwing Acid and Stabbing People to death for their watches . Is squirting acid in someone's face technically littering though?  |
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A fine for a lemonade stall.........I bet that left a bitter taste in his mouth
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The litter in our private park has been cleared, hooray.
I heartily recommend living around a private park, as per those posh ones in kensington and chelsea. Most of the year nobody uses it so it is an oasis of calm, with huge mature trees. I prefer it to all the gardens I have had in houses - and no gardening involved. |