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I don't think the public would see that in the same light. Let's face it, if it hadn't been brought to media attention, that girls parents would still be paying that fine.
Girl, 5, fined £150 for lemonade stand
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I don't think the public would see that in the same light. Let's face it, if it hadn't been brought to media attention, that girls parents would still be paying that fine.
Not really, it does not add anything (except that he obviously is an intelligent person).
I'm pleased to agree with most posters that this was an overzealous application of rules. Not that there aren't maybe too many rules governing our daily lives, some important surely, but many are minor and could be ignored unless harm is evident.
Yeah, guilty, just copied and pasted from the BBC. This is GD and I do not get paid 200k pa for reading headlines.
I couldn't agree more. I'm sure some are good but my local one, Wokingham, is disgusting. Councils seem to be a haven for those who wish to have power without the brains to deserve it.
My son (7) sometimes sits out the front on my house selling the apples and plums from our trees.
He loves it, and it's a good way of getting rid of them - too many for us to eat.
Except, lots of kindly locals donate extra stuff from their gardens, carrots, marrows, grapes etc, and he ends up with more produce than he started with.
He loves it, and it's a good way of getting rid of them - too many for us to eat.
Except, lots of kindly locals donate extra stuff from their gardens, carrots, marrows, grapes etc, and he ends up with more produce than he started with.
Ha! Oh sweet irony... I especially liked this relevant snippet:
"You'll discover what makes a workplace mindless, why being stupid might be a good thing in the short term but a disaster in the longer term, and how to make your workplace a little less stupid by challenging thoughtless conformity."
Whoosh.
This sort of thing is good as kids will learn from the experience, My daughter does similar with regards to crafts which she makes.
A setup then.
But that's fine as long as it's Saudis, plenty of them in London.
The Police weren't involved.
Similar thing happened to my son at his school a week or so ago.
He's taken a passion to writing stories, some of his friends asked him to write them a story and gave him 50p each to write a book, someone grassed on him and he got told he shouldn't take peoples money and was made to give it back.
They didn't praise him on the creativity of writing books either.
Several years ago he would be heralded and praised for his entrepreneurial spirit, now you just get told "No, you can't do that."
He's taken a passion to writing stories, some of his friends asked him to write them a story and gave him 50p each to write a book, someone grassed on him and he got told he shouldn't take peoples money and was made to give it back.
They didn't praise him on the creativity of writing books either.
Several years ago he would be heralded and praised for his entrepreneurial spirit, now you just get told "No, you can't do that."
JESUS CHRIST! This offends me to no end. On what basis did they tell him he had to give the money back? What possible rationale? Did they think he was conning them somehow? Are they against capitalism or something?