Lucky you're in Hartlepool and not Wales, or you'd have to arrest yourselves...
I've never understood the impulse that makes someone think 'I'll memorialise my lost loved one by choking some farmer's cattle' myself, but I know the underclass seem to love it.
And the police, particularly the 'Neighbourhood' type police, seem to love to cozy up to the underclass, don't they?
So much so they are prepared to ignore their commitments...
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Look on the bright side, at least it wasn't a release of the burning Chinese lanterns we used to have. And at least they got to see a British police uniform in the wild so to speak. Around here the species has been extinct for years.
From the link, by what means or authority can a Local Council 'ban' releasing balloons except perhaps on their own property which is actually our property ?
Local councilors are little god's, legends in their own minds. I have heard local Labour councilors here ask if they needed to pay for their drinks in the pub because they were councilors, says it all I think.
There was once a time when pointing out the hazards associated with an activity, perhaps ones they weren't aware of, would be enough to dissuade people of it without requiring a ban, but then today we're up against people like this; "I think people should still be allowed to do it because I know people who have died and on their birthdays we all ways realese a ballon for them"
"Look on the bright side, at least it wasn't a release of the burning Chinese lanterns ..."
True! But balloons are every bit as deadly, and more so when there's no risk of dry conditions.
"...by what means or authority can a Local Council 'ban' releasing balloons ..."
They can ban anything. Enforcing it, now, that's another matter...
"...today we're up against people like this; "I think people should still be allowed to do it because I know people who have died and on their birthdays we all ways realese a ballon for them""
I can't think of anything cheaper and tackier, personally.
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