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Originally Posted by Imaginos Just out of interest John, how much seed were the couple putting down compared to, let's say, the amount regularly spilled from grain trucks?
I understand where you're coming from with this, but I can't agree that this sort of law is not petty, when we have open landfills attracting rats & gulls (aerial rats), poorly collected urban waste, a fly-tipping epidemic & filthy streets in this country I cannot believe that fining people for putting down seed & bread in order to feed the birds really is anything other than petty. And as for a four-day surveillance, well that just strikes me as a way of avoiding some proper work. |
We can all point to things that go on elswhere as a way of making something not right. This isn't a perfect world.
You can't mention landfills sites as a way of making out that what happens in a village is wrong. Each is judged on it's own merits.
At the end of the day this thread is all about a couple that have been fined, not Landfill sites or anything else like that. We are basically being asked our thoughts on it based on a newspaper story (which we all know is not the best place to get true information from).
I made my point earlier that we can't really judge without all the facts.
For the first time I had chance to make a judgement on what this thread was all about, having witnessed what the old fella and his Mrs had to say and I was not impressed.
As I have said many times before. If you don't like these laws then challenge them. If they remain unchallenged they will remain unchanged.
Likewise if you don't like what is happening to Landfills, or whatever gets you annoyed, do something about it but don't use it to counter what is happening somewhere else and totally unrelated.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this particular case are this couple were warned not to feed the birds. They flouted the law and flouted the authority that gave them a chance to stop it of their own accord. Their choice was to basically put their two fingers up to the Council. Now they are suffering for it.
Why should the Council be pilloried because they have worked within the framework of the Law. In fact I know some authorities that wouldn't have even warned them. They would have just fined them on the spot.
John