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why do you get caught and pursued ruthlessly for driving in an empty bus lane at 2am (the 24 hour bus lane sign was beautifully and cunningly hidden behind a tree) but noone gives a fuck when your house is burgled and some twat, probably a council tenant, runs off with your laptop?

more seriously, my friend's boss was beaten up in the street and stabbed in the eye, which he subsequently lost. the council hadn't fixed its broken cctv camera so the culprits got off in court.

two months later, he comes home from holiday to find his house all boarded up. this is because he had been burgled and it had been trashed. the police had been round to secure it.

and had left him a bill for their time.

they never caught the culprits, but they made sure he paid for the boards and nails...

AND congestion charging. i know full fucking well i was on the right side of the border. they sent me a picture of my licence plate and a demand for £100. i demanded to see the full picture. they demanded £20 for "data protection". what the fuck? is it a picture of me, or not?

i won that one.

this qotw is raising my blood pressure. bureaucrats suck. vote for me - i'll make sure everyone has to do something to get any money at all; thieves have their hands amputated after three previous offences; arsenal fans are all deported along with their grey faced manager and it is the law that everyone gets laid at least three times a week. oh, and a three day weekend.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 27 Jul 2007, 11:43, Reply)