A present glimpse into our dear future:
STUNNED smoker Daniel Slaney ended up in court – for dropping cigarette ash on a pavement.
The computer programmer, 37, was having a fag as he walked to work.
But two council wardens accused him of throwing his cigarette end away and handed him a £40 fine for littering in Sandiacre, near Nottingham.
Daniel refused to pay and told Southern Derbyshire Magistrates he always carried an old packet for his butts as he was against littering.
Magistrate Geoffrey Dennis threw out the case. He said: "This would seem to be an example of overzealous officialdom."
For today at least...
STUNNED smoker Daniel Slaney ended up in court – for dropping cigarette ash on a pavement.
The computer programmer, 37, was having a fag as he walked to work.
But two council wardens accused him of throwing his cigarette end away and handed him a £40 fine for littering in Sandiacre, near Nottingham.
Daniel refused to pay and told Southern Derbyshire Magistrates he always carried an old packet for his butts as he was against littering.
Magistrate Geoffrey Dennis threw out the case. He said: "This would seem to be an example of overzealous officialdom."
For today at least...
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