Man cuts car in half to spite petty bureaucrats
The unspoken motto of our political leaders, locally and nationally, and irrespective of party allegiances, could be said to be ‘fleece not protect’. One man in Gloucestershire had a novel response to his car, legally registered off the road and parked in his garden, being clamped for extending a mere few inches—less than a wheel length—onto the public road. The car was due to be scrapped, so he took an angle-grinder to it and cut it in half.
The car owner is reported as ‘glad to get one over’ on the enthusiastically punitive officials, describing them as ‘jobsworths’.
tags: bureaucrats, civil liberties, crime, jobsworths, local government, national government, penalties, politics, protestNo shame, no morals, no lives and possibly no sex
Would a change of government bring about an end to the petty tyranny seemingly endemic in our local councils? Somehow, I doubt it; the machinery of our modern supposed democracy favours the election to power of tin generals and the kinds of people who were once upon a time relegated to curtain-twitching for hours, waiting for the glorious moment a football was accidentally kicked into their gardens so they could rush out bellowing at small children and curse their bloodlines.
tags: bureaucracy, crime, democracy, fines, justice, local authorities, local councils, neighbours, penalties, rubbish
