Seems the silly bureau-critters infesting Ottawa's National Capitol Commission don't like being called out for blind enforcement of stupid rules. They've publicly and officially apologized to Adela and Eliza Andrews for the absurd shutdown of their lemonade stand this past weekend. And apologize they should. Two girls, 5 and 7, selling lemonade? This is the heinous … [Read more...]
Official State Re-Education by Lemonade Stand Police “corrects” 5 and 7-year-old Ottawa girls
I thought the "Lemonade Stand Police" was an American phenomenon but this Canada Day I was proven quite wrong. If it's good enough for America it's good enough for Canada, it seems, at least when it comes to attacking children for daring to be productive and self-sufficient members of society. The two girls, Adela and Eliza Andrews, thought they were doing a good thing by … [Read more...]
When is your private property not your own? Whenever a bureaucritter of the Nanny State says so.
We like to believe that when we make the most expensive purchase of our lives, our family home, we’re actually the ones who own it. It’s a fallacy, however, as more and more homeowners, if I can even call them that, are discovering across North America. When we buy a piece of land and a house, we believe we can do what we want with that land and home. Oh, we’re such … [Read more...]
Union County police fine man for the “crime” of saving his son’s life
It sounds absurd, I know, but that's the net result of police actions in Winfield Park, New Jersey, earlier this month. Frank Roder thought he was doing a good thing when he took his son down to the Rahway River to feed the ducks. No sooner had Frank and his son arrived at the parking lot when his young son jumped out of the jeep and ran directly for the edge of the … [Read more...]
Alberta Sheriff Thomas Bounds: Taking Insensitivity to an All-New Low
Thomas Bounds is a sheriff with the Alberta Sheriff’s Service. He requires, at a bare minimum, a severe reprimand and retraining to learn how to act like a human being, since he clearly has no clue at the moment. For his blatantly abusive and potentially life-threatening treatment of Bill Berry, a 52-year-old deaf and mute cancer survivor, Sheriff Thomas Bounds should really … [Read more...]
Tom MacLachlan: Bureaucrat’s Rule #1 sucks, doesn’t it?
Tom MacLachlan was just doing what I’ve personally done numerous times… he was dropping coins into parking meters to prevent a couple of total strangers from getting a parking ticket. I must admit, there is an odd pleasure that comes from knowing you’ve prevented someone from getting a parking ticket. That feeling is enhanced, even more strangely, by the knowledge that the … [Read more...]
This decision was moronic even by TSA standards…
The US Transportation and Safety Administration (TSA) is hardly the most intelligent bunch in the world. The TSA is made up of thugs empowered by the Patriot Act to use, abuse, sexually molest and otherwise harass travelers who are silly enough or desperate enough to want to fly. I’ve written before on some of the more asinine things the TSA has done, including the forced … [Read more...]