Wednesday - November 16, 2011

smoke,smoke,smoke that cigarette … (very old country tune)

Well here we are again.  Little people with tiny minds.  Little Hitlers minus the brains and the uniform.  (yeah brains. one can be very evil but not stupid)

You should see the politically correct comments at the end of this article. I quit smoking a very long time ago. I know the dangers, I’d never start again.
But come on. Who needs pc policing on smoking in your own car if you’re by yourself?  That idea is being advanced my many in the medical profession.
I guess it’s the English was these days.

Anyway, this article is about a woman who dropped her ciggy butt outside her door on the sidewalk. She was immediately given an on the spot fine by one of the many snoops and spies that abound here nowadays.

OK, she should have brought the butt inside and used an ashtray.  But having been seen she went ahead and picked the butt up and put it in her pocket.
So where’s the litter?  And there’s all these mental midgets making comments about how cities are awash with cigarette butts which end up in the oceans.
Funny thing about that.  I hardly ever see any cigarette butts in the streets anymore. But then even years ago before it became politically incorrect to light and toss the evil weed, I don’t recall seeing streets “awash” with butts.  People who are PC also tend to exaggerate. A lot.

Here. Take a look.

‘I’ll go to prison if I have to’: Mother of three, 48, refuses to pay £465 fine for dropping cigarette outside her home

‘There is no way I’m paying the fine for dropping a fag end outside my own front door’
Council bosses: ‘Eco-criminals will not be tolerated’

By EMILY ALLEN

A mother-of-three fined almost £500 for dropping a cigarette has said she she would rather go to jail than pay the charge.

Tracey John, 48, was smoking on her front doorstep when she was seen by a litter enforcement officer dropping the butt on the pavement outside her home.

She refused to pay the on-the-spot fine of £75 and, after her case was sent to magistrates court, has been ordered to pay £465 - one of Britain’s biggest-ever charges for dropping a single cigarette.

But Ms John said yesterday she had no intention of paying and is even prepared to go to prison.

She said: ‘I’ll go to jail if I have to - there is no way I’m paying the fine for dropping a fag end outside my own front door.

Now doctors want to ban smoking in cars… even if you’re on your own

News of her prosecution came as the British Medical Association called on ministers to make smoking in your car against the law - even if there are no passengers.

The housewife claims she was given the £75 on-the-spot penalty even though she picked up the cigarette and put it in her pocket.

Ms John then refused to pay the fine and her case was sent to the magistrates’ court were she was found guilty in her absence.

She was fined £350, ordered to pay £100 costs and a £15 victim surcharge.

Ms John, of Pontrypridd, South Wales, said: ‘I picked up the cigarette after I dropped it. It was outside my own house in my own street.

‘I’m not paying it, what am I suppose to do? Put it out on my hand?

Ms John has been told to pay one of Britain’s biggest ever charges for dropping a single cigarette

‘They are not being fair they think they can just take advantage of me to make an example.

‘But I’m not going to back down, I’m not going to be intimidated, I’m going to fight this all the way to the top.’

Council bosses in her home town are cracking down on litter and are warning that cigarette ends are counted as an ‘eco-crime’.

In the past two years Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has generated £69,300 from 844 fixed penalty notices for littering.

Blah,blah but now here’s the part that hands me a laugh. Sort of. 

Nigel Wheeler, service director for Streetcare at Rhondda Cynon Taf Council said: ’Eco-criminals will not be tolerated. The illegal disposal of cigarette related waste is the biggest single problem throughout the area.

‘As well as creating unsightly environmental conditions, the offence can attract vermin.

‘The Streetcare Enforcement Team will do all in its power to eradicate this type of behaviour.’

SOURCE

So then her butt will attract vermin?  What a load of pc eco rubbish. The vermin are all in city halls and parliaments and congresses and anywhere you find the rop. But a cigarette butt? Vermin?  uh huh.
The biggest biggest single problem in his area is cigarette butts?  I say he’s a flippin’ liar! Cigarette related waste?  What? Ashes? More PC exaggeration.

Posted by peiper     on 11/16/2011 at 10:17 AM   
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