 | 1/3/2004 Well, I hope you've seen my announcement at the top of the page. It's important. Read it! Also, I am happy to report that my council problems should be over by now. A call to the office cleared the matter up quite effectively. The council officer involved really doesn't know how to write letters, but at least he was, in all fairness, a lot more reasonable than your usual council person once he had a very uh... garrulous person on the other end pointing that out ;) 29/2/2004 The Bastards! Apologies for the strong language, but I'm very very very pissed. Why? I've been given a 'notice of intended referral for prosecution' by my local Camden Street environment Council. For what, you ask? Get this: FOR LEAVING GARBAGE AT A BLOODY DESIGNATED KERB-SIDE GARBAGE COLLECTION POINT, FOR GOD'S SAKE!. You see, the system in my area is this: The council doesn't provide dumpsters or garbage bins for the area, so all residents leave their garbage out at certain points on the kerb every morning and evening for the garbagemen to collect. It's the norm. Usually, there are no problems with this system that works. So why am I being singled out of hundred of others for an offence that isn't one? Are council people just plain stupid or do they have some, more sinister purpose in mind...? A little legal researching on the Environment Protection Act turns up this gem of a line: 88.—(1) Where on any occasion an authorised officer of a litter authority finds a person who he has reason to believe has on that occasion committed an offence under section 87 above in the area of that authority, he may give that person a notice offering him the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for that offence by payment of a fixed penalty. (£10) Is that just me, or does that sound like: I'm sending you a notice to scare you, gimme money and I'll go away. Add the fact that two out of three of the students living in this house are international students (who presumably don't know the laws of England), and all of them female... they're bound to be scared and are pushovers, right? Easy money. I say: f*ck them if this is the case. And yes, you read that right. F*ck their greedy little hearts. I try very hard to be a decent person, but it's far easier for me to be a bitch when I want to. And someone in the council office is going to find that out Monday morning. I haven't broken any laws, and damned me if I'm not going to make them pay through their nose if they want to bring me to court. It's their funeral. *evil* - Ping |
