Government Jobsworths are the most maggoty
I work for a skip rental firm and took a call one day from a code enforcement officer of a small town demanding a large licensing fee for the right to place our skips at our customer's worksites. It was akin to paying $500 for the right to rent you a vacuum cleaner once in a great while.

This crap man would not back down despite my cogent, pateint coaching designed to place him squarely back in the land of the free (I'm American). We soon received a written demand, with copies sent to every poobah in the district. Enclosed was a copy of the ordinance he cited.

It quickly emerged that the gentleman had not read his own ordinance, which merely required licensing for the right to dump skips in the town landfill, closed a few decades ago. What joy I took in my reply letter, tutoring him on both law and judgment, which of course was sent as well to every cleark and boardmember on the original distribution list. Not only did we never hear from him again; we recently had the opportunity to rent a skip to his neighbor across the road.

I live for opportunities to break these bastards on my wheel.
( scartoonist, Sun 15 May 2005, 2:12, Reply)