Common sense...it's bin and gone.
I DON'T know whether it's me getting older but I'm finding it increasingly difficult to get across the difference between right and wrong to my children.
It was hammered home to me when my two lads started quizzing me about the city council's ludicrous fining of honest law abiding citizens for the heinous crime of leaving their bin bags out too early.
I was recently stung for £30 by the city council for straying into the equally pointless car sharing lane by Fort Dunlop for all of 10 feet.
The bottom line is that inspectors rooting through our bin bags and jobsworth coppers stopping cars for nothing instead of catching crooks provide nice little earners for the council.
It seems that we're being taken for a ride in every aspect of our lives, with ordinary families with children trying to carve a comfortable living being hit in the pocket by faceless authority who regard using a little common sense as "more than their jobswurf".
I for one would have refused to pay the fine and had I caught someone sifting through my bin bags, I would have been equally ridiculous and called the police complaining of theft.
Perhaps it's time that we all started to fight back against these legalised money-making rackets - for the sake of our children.
George Orwell warned in his novel 1984 of a Big Brother society and was spot on...what will it be like in 30 years.
Thought police, fashion police with fines for inappropriate dress, toilet checks...don't laugh - those people who put their bins out five minutes too early aren't.
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I couldn't agree more with Bad Dad, It seems that everyone and his dog can fine me for any perceived indiscretion. i.e. I can't put my bin bag out before midnight so I have to stay up late, which if I do the local wildlife tears the bag to pieces and scatter the rubbish around the road leaving me open to a littering fine(?) So I have to get up early and have my rubbish out before 0700. How dare these people, who work for US, dictate when I can go to bed or get up. I have to recycle of course a box for paper, a box for glass and plastics and a bag for general waste. Why? when the bin men empty the lot into the same wagon. It's time for a revolution, to rid the councils of these non-job jobs worths.
Outrageous, Bad Dad, that you should be fined for breaking the law by straying into a traffic lane which you were not entitled to use!
Obviously these rules are there to be obeyed by everyone other than you.
Stray into a traffic lane or put your rubbish out too early and they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks.
Try getting a copper to turn yp after a burglary is a different matter.
The law is an ass.
The answer to not being fined is simple - don't break the law.
So you're saying if a law is unjust or unworkable we should all just shut up and get on with it?
I suspect Moseleyblu is one of those people who live perfect lives, never offending anyone and always being in the right...or maybe not.
Oh and by the way, driving alone for eight feet in a car sharing lane is not against the law - it's a breach of traffic regulation which I think he'll find is a little different.
Though I'm sure he'll have a smug answer...until the police come a knocking when a stray smidgeon of caviar slips out his bin.
Then he'll be indignant.
I'd be more than indignant should a police officer tell me even a single grain of caviar had slipped from my bin. Have you checked the price of Beluga these days, Bad Dad?