an electronic tag for a goldfish …absolutley incedible
thing is these jobsworths and kafka bueracrats play into the hands of the daily mail brigade
in the end we all switch off and become cynical and numb towards all sense of proportion thats the slippy slope towards a state of fear and paranoia and the inability to live unless watching ones back 24/7
if we apply a tag for a goldfish then by rights a woman slapping her kids in a supermarket should get the village stocks and be transported in shackles to Botany Bay
which wouldnt be a bad thing
once again the Daily Mail headline forgot the fine detail
In the shop was a cockatail bird that had to be put down
ah well the devils in the detail
guess a headline that said
pet shop fined and tagged for causing cruelty to a parrot
isnt the same knee jerk reaction as selling a goldfish
thats the ploy place the inanity then in small print ….the cru elty and truth
Apparently they’d also sold a rodent to a girl with learning difficulties who subsequently put it into a cup of coffee. The shop had history and was rightly investigated.
The decision whether to prosecute or not is down to the council, but the penalty was down to the magistrates. They didn’t find her guilty: she pleaded guilty. And the Mail itself says “Trafford Council said it launched an investigation after an unsubstantiated complaint that the shop had sold a gerbil to a 14-year-old girl with learning disabilities. The council claimed the animal later died after the child placed it in a disposable coffee cup with a plastic lid on top.”
Having said this, I completely fail to understand why tagging and a curfew were thought an appropriate sentence,
I don’t know what the mail is carping about. Stories like this are Cod’s gift to them. I’m surprised the headline writers didn’t have a whale of a time with this one.
Justified story or not, isn’t it more a quirky thing for page six rather than the biggest thing on page one? ‘And in other news…” That sort of thing. I guess they couldn’t drop the dead donkey this time.
Having read up on the story in a bit more depth, it makes me recall Mark Steel’s comment of “A bit like getting Fred West for not paying the VAT on the cement he used.”
How would these people have reported the prosecution of Al Capone? “Jailed for not keeping up with the Red Tape: Antique dealing entrepeneur in the slammer for missing just ONE little tax return!”, if this story is any guide.
She was jointly accused of animal cruelty to a cockatil.
The Mail want it both ways, they sentenced quite rightly based on the more serious offence so obviously it’s reported as applying to the trivial offence.
If it had been the other way around, they would have still complained.
Hmmm, so a British magistrate, acting with the usual British historic traditional independence and without political intervention (none of us want party political ‘justice now, do we?) decided after hearing all the facts to impose a sentence some believe inappropriate.
Well knock me down with a feather.
Some people take an extremely dim view of animal cruelty and a callous disregard for their welfare.
It sounds like on that score alone this sentence might not be so strange afterall.
(but then I prefer not to comment further as I’m not furnished with all the facts…….and I sure as hell wouldn’t be making it a tabloid headline)
The contrast between the financial top strap and the stupid, stupid, stupid goldfish headline makes me very happy. May as well be above the picture of a number 9 bus on the moon.
Yes Mail, you seem rational – help me with my money and please start a campaign for my right to stamp on hamsters.
Perhaps the goldfish had been sold for the express purpose of being swallowed alive. That’s a grand British schoolboy tradition I’m sure the Mail would like to resurrect. How dare ‘elf and safety get in the way of goldfish swallowing, conkers, and bashing foreigners!
for once I agree with the daily mail!!!!!!
an electronic tag for a goldfish …absolutley incedible
thing is these jobsworths and kafka bueracrats play into the hands of the daily mail brigade
in the end we all switch off and become cynical and numb towards all sense of proportion thats the slippy slope towards a state of fear and paranoia and the inability to live unless watching ones back 24/7
if we apply a tag for a goldfish then by rights a woman slapping her kids in a supermarket should get the village stocks and be transported in shackles to Botany Bay
which wouldnt be a bad thing
post scriptum
once again the Daily Mail headline forgot the fine detail
In the shop was a cockatail bird that had to be put down
ah well the devils in the detail
guess a headline that said
pet shop fined and tagged for causing cruelty to a parrot
isnt the same knee jerk reaction as selling a goldfish
thats the ploy place the inanity then in small print ….the cru elty and truth
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Apparently they’d also sold a rodent to a girl with learning difficulties who subsequently put it into a cup of coffee. The shop had history and was rightly investigated.
The decision whether to prosecute or not is down to the council, but the penalty was down to the magistrates. They didn’t find her guilty: she pleaded guilty. And the Mail itself says “Trafford Council said it launched an investigation after an unsubstantiated complaint that the shop had sold a gerbil to a 14-year-old girl with learning disabilities. The council claimed the animal later died after the child placed it in a disposable coffee cup with a plastic lid on top.”
Having said this, I completely fail to understand why tagging and a curfew were thought an appropriate sentence,
I don’t know what the mail is carping about. Stories like this are Cod’s gift to them. I’m surprised the headline writers didn’t have a whale of a time with this one.
I’ll get my coat
More DM front pages…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
Justified story or not, isn’t it more a quirky thing for page six rather than the biggest thing on page one? ‘And in other news…” That sort of thing. I guess they couldn’t drop the dead donkey this time.
Littlejohn will be dining out on this one for years.
Having read up on the story in a bit more depth, it makes me recall Mark Steel’s comment of “A bit like getting Fred West for not paying the VAT on the cement he used.”
How would these people have reported the prosecution of Al Capone? “Jailed for not keeping up with the Red Tape: Antique dealing entrepeneur in the slammer for missing just ONE little tax return!”, if this story is any guide.
So we are ‘outraged’ as someone breaking the law is branded a criminal?
Next they’ll be saying that speeding is a ‘real’ crime either… oh wait…!
She was jointly accused of animal cruelty to a cockatil.
The Mail want it both ways, they sentenced quite rightly based on the more serious offence so obviously it’s reported as applying to the trivial offence.
If it had been the other way around, they would have still complained.
Hmmm, so a British magistrate, acting with the usual British historic traditional independence and without political intervention (none of us want party political ‘justice now, do we?) decided after hearing all the facts to impose a sentence some believe inappropriate.
Well knock me down with a feather.
Some people take an extremely dim view of animal cruelty and a callous disregard for their welfare.
It sounds like on that score alone this sentence might not be so strange afterall.
(but then I prefer not to comment further as I’m not furnished with all the facts…….and I sure as hell wouldn’t be making it a tabloid headline)
Who could possibly be in control of Trafford council ummmm….
But yeah facts suck when your lying, so the Mail have conviently forgot them.
Dr Doolittle?
The contrast between the financial top strap and the stupid, stupid, stupid goldfish headline makes me very happy. May as well be above the picture of a number 9 bus on the moon.
Yes Mail, you seem rational – help me with my money and please start a campaign for my right to stamp on hamsters.
How are they going to stick the tag on the goldfish? and do they work underwater anyway?
Can they not stick a tag on Rod Liddle?
Perhaps the goldfish had been sold for the express purpose of being swallowed alive. That’s a grand British schoolboy tradition I’m sure the Mail would like to resurrect. How dare ‘elf and safety get in the way of goldfish swallowing, conkers, and bashing foreigners!
especially bashing foreigners
Hang on, goldfish are foreigners … and cockatiels!
Bloody foreign fish come over here, stealing our tags made for god-fearing British criminals.
And another thing ……. ad inf