According to various tabloid reports yesterday - our Tone's taking a tough stance of cime.
We can commit any one of 10 new offences per month - apparently!
Not paying the opitician or the dentist - fine of £2,500!
Motorists (what a surprise) have 113 new offences to commit since Tone came to power - and I am pretty sure I do not know most of them!
Does anyone konw what these 113 new offences since 1997 actually are? The only one I'm aware of is the one which was on the paper - £1000 fine if I am cuaght with my angle grinder in the hospital car park
(They clamped me once - er - er - er - that clamp has never been used - er - er
since...)
There are others (non driving):
Plant breeding (horticulture) - if you give wrong information to the Controler of Plant Variety Rights - there is a fine of £1000
Attending a woman in labour (if not a doctor or a midwife) - £2,500 fine.
(Not being picky here - but if Wildy had given birth when in her sister's presence - rather think she'd have been OK with the a vet surgeon ....
)
Devising a tobacco advert - which is published - two years in jail?
(Pity they do not do this for publishing dodgy stats about scams.....)
Staging a church hall concert without a licence - £20,000 fine and 6 months in jail...
Then today - I read about Cams Plod sending a stern letter home to a 15 year old's parents ... for smoking.
Now I have given the lecture to my second son - but think I would have been annoyed about this. Apparently - child can be jailed for a month if copped smoking by BiB - had no idea about this law either.
I do not approve of smoking and take great pains to steer my kids away from the habit - but this is not going to make a youngster respect a cop.
Adolescent cigarette smoking and prevention is surely better left to parents and teachers - and police would be better chasing adolsecent drinking/yob behaviour - which are illegal and far more dangerous to society.
Whatever next?
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