We have a mother baled up by the Public Swimming Pool gestapo in Christchurch for changing her sixteen month old toddler into her togs in public as this might offend people and/or encourage paedophiles.
We have uniformed feds raiding an eatery in Mission Bay because they were displaying their Liquor License on a side wall of the establishment and not prominently by the front door.
We have a property developer in Wellington who has been done $14,000 plus costs and then $15,000 in reparations for dealing to a Kowhai tree. The amusing coda to this is that after his rather over ambitious pruning the tree entered the terminal stages of its life but the Council still had to get consent to remove it. Oh, and the developer is also the owner of a strip club. Quite what this has to do with the matters in hand I don't know but it makes it all a bit more salacious for the newspapers.
Against all this world shattering trivia teachers who are well past the age of retirement are getting butchered in their classrooms, the police still have to lay charges in a double homicide that occured a month ago when it would appear they have a pool of about a dozen suspects all of whom are well known to them, the country's economy is danger of a serious downturn if the EU bureaucrats can't be persuaded to be sensible over butter (European Bureaucrats sensible - I don't think so) and so it goes on.
We seem to be the absolute pass masters at pursuing things that don't matter a toss to the n'th dgree whilst ignoring the big issues. If I was in a better mood I would feel like expanding on this but I have just been told that 'rules' just brought in say I can no longer have a bottle of water in the room when working and I have to go off for a quick scream - no make that a protracted one.
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