Bored with stories about the snow and Wikileaks, I looked around this morning to see if anything else of interest was being reported. I wasn’t disappointed.
To start with, there’s the tale of the drunken passenger on Holland America Line’s Ryndam, sailing in the Gulf of Mexico, who is said to have taken himself into the restricted area at the stern of the ship and released the anchor. He is now in FBI custody and faces a $250,000 fine and a possible prison sentence if convicted. I’ve never heard of anything like that in all my years in the shipping industry.
Closer to home, a South Wales council has threatened to prosecute a ‘Secret Santa’ who leaves Christmas presents for less well-off children hanging from trees in a local park. The offence? Fly-tipping! Are they serious down there in South Wales?
Then you have the woman who was fined £60 for parking 22 minutes longer than the three hour limit in Swansea. The contractor who levied the fine and then refused her appeal was told that the women was a little late getting back to her car because she went to the aid of a suicidal woman who was threatening to jump into the River Tawe. Unsurprisingly, when the story hit the press the contractors changed their mind. Couldn’t they have done that in the first place?
And then, the pilot of the plane carrying Nigel Farage of UKIP which crashed on general election day has been charged with threatening to kill Farage. And, presumably, himself at the same time?
‘Ain’t it a strange world sometimes?
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To start with, there’s the tale of the drunken passenger on Holland America Line’s Ryndam, sailing in the Gulf of Mexico, who is said to have taken himself into the restricted area at the stern of the ship and released the anchor. He is now in FBI custody and faces a $250,000 fine and a possible prison sentence if convicted. I’ve never heard of anything like that in all my years in the shipping industry.
Closer to home, a South Wales council has threatened to prosecute a ‘Secret Santa’ who leaves Christmas presents for less well-off children hanging from trees in a local park. The offence? Fly-tipping! Are they serious down there in South Wales?
Then you have the woman who was fined £60 for parking 22 minutes longer than the three hour limit in Swansea. The contractor who levied the fine and then refused her appeal was told that the women was a little late getting back to her car because she went to the aid of a suicidal woman who was threatening to jump into the River Tawe. Unsurprisingly, when the story hit the press the contractors changed their mind. Couldn’t they have done that in the first place?
And then, the pilot of the plane carrying Nigel Farage of UKIP which crashed on general election day has been charged with threatening to kill Farage. And, presumably, himself at the same time?
‘Ain’t it a strange world sometimes?
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