Police Paperwork Is Like The Best Invention Of Mankind

We have heard a lot in recent years how the police are having to spend so much more time dealing with paperwork than they ever do in doing proper police work. A possible demonstration of how bad thigs have got is revealed in reports that say a mouse nest was found in the pile of paperwork on a policemans desk in South London.

Apparently pest exterminaters were called in to deal with a mouse infestation and they were found to have set up home in a pile of paperwork. If our police services are spending so much time on paperwork that they cannot do their job they might as well stay at the police station and keep a tidy desk instead. They could occupy their time by switching on the most wonderful invention of mankind to date.

This is a machine whose only purpose is to switch itself off again. Wonderful. Perhaps the government could spend it’s time operating machines like this instead of forever coming up with new laws and requirements that prevent the poolice getting on with doing their job.

What Is The Fine For Dropping Salt On The Road?

If you are liable to a £65 fine for dropping a cigarette on the pavement or out of your car window, should there not also be a fine for throwing tons of salt on the road be at least as much?

Cigarette butts give good grip too you know. )

A Ban On Lighters But Naked Flames Are Ok

Am I the only person who finds it somewhat bizarre that you or I cannot take a cigarette lighter on board and aircraft, nor can we smoke on board for reasons of safety yet the olympic torch can be flown around the world without anyone stopping the person carrying it from boarding? Have Airport Security all gone on strike?

The olympic torch is in the hands of the Chinese, a nation not exactly renowned for freedom of the individual, yet they have the freedom to carry a lighted torch on board an aircraft. So I presume that if I turn up at an airport with a lighted torch I will be allowed to board without any problem too since we live in a supposedly free, fair and democratic country.