| Re: Fined for Feeding the Birds
This has been discussed at great length on another forum and it is not as cut and dried as you think. Following was my observation on this storyline. After that is the latest to come out of this story.
After reading my thoughts then the follow on piece let me know what your thoughts are.
First my reaction
As it is it does sound outrageous, but has the property a no feeding policy that is well known, i.e notices on the wall etc.
Without all the details you can't make any judgement.
You have to realise there are places that have suddenly become infested with Rats due to the feeding (or overfeeding) of birds. This might be the case and if so I can see the need to ban the feeding of the birds.
We might not like it but sadly Rats and feeding birds go together, as many of you who feed birds in the garden will know.
Now the latest to have been reported
A couple of slight anomilies in the original report.
The couple involved were not fined for feeding the birds, but for dropping litter according to newspaper reports.
It was council official officials who issued the fine. They had monitored them for 4 days running after receiving complaints, then ambushed them.
Incidently the original post on here only mentions a "65 year old pensioner". Doesn't mention his 42 year old very young looking blonde wife. Not that this has anything to do with it, but wouldn't have the same affect if it said "Blonde bombshell" instead of "pensioner" would it.
What's your thinking now?
John |