News10 May 2006 / 20:48
Discarded stick costs girl lolly
A teenager has been fined £75 for leaving an ice lolly stick on a wall in Manchester city centre.
This story is another one for the ‘fucking little Nazi’ category, unfortunately.
If the council warden had any sense at all she could have just gone over and told her to put it in the bin. That would have been the end of the matter. But no. That worthless jumped-up official relished using all of the frankly miniscule power she has over people and fine the poor girl. We’re breeding an unhelpful and overzealous mindset in this country and I don’t like it one bit.
It’s even worse when you read about it; she wasn’t littering at all; she’d just seen an old friend and forgot the lolly stick, as anyone who is a human being and not a zero tolerance dalek would do.
If you go to this site, by the way, you can see Sorrell’s own comments; you can see that this admirable girl refuses to even whine about it, though God knows she has reason enough. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/212/212729_fined_75__for_dropping_a_lolly_stick.html?
Comment by David — 12 May 2006 / @ 19:10