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A Smethic lady was feeding the ducks in a park last week when she was approached by a warden and given a £75 on-the-spot littering fine. This jobsmith then told the lady that her young son could carry on feeding the ducks as he was too young to be fined!
Here again we have a council that first backed stupidity and, bowing to pressure, changed their minds on the basis that it was now taking a ‘commonsense’ approach.
The Deputy Leader of Sandwell Council grandly announced, ‘New signs will make it abundantly clear that feeding of waterfowl is not allowed at all in this park and that anyone observed feeding the geese and any other birds will receive a fixed penalty notice’.
Whoever heard of a park with a pond, geese and ducks where you couldn’t take your children and let them throw the birds a bit of stale bread?
But, if you are looking for one, head straight for Smethwick Hall Park, in Smethwick, West Midlands!
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A Smethic lady was feeding the ducks in a park last week when she was approached by a warden and given a £75 on-the-spot littering fine. This jobsmith then told the lady that her young son could carry on feeding the ducks as he was too young to be fined!
Here again we have a council that first backed stupidity and, bowing to pressure, changed their minds on the basis that it was now taking a ‘commonsense’ approach.
The Deputy Leader of Sandwell Council grandly announced, ‘New signs will make it abundantly clear that feeding of waterfowl is not allowed at all in this park and that anyone observed feeding the geese and any other birds will receive a fixed penalty notice’.
Whoever heard of a park with a pond, geese and ducks where you couldn’t take your children and let them throw the birds a bit of stale bread?
But, if you are looking for one, head straight for Smethwick Hall Park, in Smethwick, West Midlands!
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