Posted by Tina
First two stories out of Merry Old England:
** A grandfather was left humiliated after being handed a 60 litter fine when his cigarette was knocked out of his hand as he walked past a scuffle between police and shoplifters. *** …the pensioner did not have time to bend down and pick it up before a council warden pounced on him and hit him the fixed penalty for littering Daily Mail (UK) **
** A man has been fined 80 for swearing at his own television while drunk. *** Plumber Martin Solomon, 62, was heard by neighbours as he shouted ‘foul and offensive language’ at his TV, magistrates in Stroud, Glos, heard. His ranting put him in breach of an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) which had been imposed at an earlier hearing to try to stop him shouting and swearing at the television whenever he disagreed with a programme. Telegraph (UK) **
And of course here at home:
** If you needed any more proof that liberal media members don’t give a darn about the state of the economy or the American people, and instead just want to raise taxes, you got it Sunday when Tom Brokaw advocated gas prices, which have plummeted recently, be kept at $4 a gallon with government keeping the added cost. NewsBusters **