This is an Outrage
An affront, a slight, a bold offense of the most vulgar kind.
How many times have you read a news article containing a crazy law used to pummel some hapless individual? Much like a computer bug, the software of law runs amok with unintended consequences.
Exhibit A: (AsianImage.co.uk)
The one man against the world scenario, where individuals try, in vain, to get around the recent liquid restrictions on airplanes.
Most Inventive, the man “with four bottles of frozen water who claimed they were solids and exempt from the rules”.
Most Child Like, the man who “proceeded to publicly empty his bladder of liquid in a plastic bag”.
Most Insane, the man “who was told he couldn’t take through a bottle of vodka so drank the entire bottle in front of security staff. He was later removed from the flight for being drunk.”
Most pretentious, “the woman who insisted that her two bottles of wine were not liquid but “fine wines”.”
Exhibit B:
From the “you can’t fight city hall” department one finds the most amusing things. The City halls of the world seem to be the place where the little annoyances of the world become weighty issues of our time. These grave matters are dealt with a hailstorm of legislation to ensure that every facet of one’s life is covered by some unknown law. These laws are always punishable in a revenue positve fashion but rarely, if ever, enforced.
The places where you can’t dance without the appropriate license.
No foreign flags unless flown below the American flag.
Spud-gun’s banned, so I guess this is some sort of victory for the gun control lobby.
A specific ban on the playing of spoons. A real problem in the city of Montreal, it seems.
Exhibit C:
The rich and powerful sue each other, hopefully, but sometimes miss and end up looking like Ebenezer Scrooge. I was really hoping to find something with Donald Trump, but maybe he treatens legal action more than he actually recourses to it. Instead I found a bizarre collection of people suing their relatives.
Some pop star that I have never heard of, sues his mother. This pop star suing mother thing seems to be somewhat of an epidemic.
The music industry sues a 12 year old girl. I guess this one belongs in Exhibit A, as well.
What a joy the practice of law must be, to get to arbitrate these important issues and form justice from the gray goop of money grubbing indulgence.
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