Did anyone read about the 4 year old girl dropping half her sausage roll and her Mum getting a £75 fine?

Question

Did anyone read about the 4 year old girl dropping half her sausage roll and her Mum getting a £75 fine?

Answer 1

Well if someone can get done for chucking an apple core out of their car window then I don't see why that can't be true.

I'm not saying it's right.. it's just that it isn't on the same level as fly tipping. Discretion should be used (instead of the letter of the law).

Answer 2

No I didn't but if she was charged with litter I think she should fight it as a sausage roll is biodegradable and thus NOT litter...

Answer 3

dont suprise me .....in scotland we are scared to f**t in public in case the f**t police come round

Answer 4

If this happened to me I would make sure in future I dropped lots of saugage rolls when out of sight. This method does not work.

Answer 5

Yes I heard that on the news. Also heard the other day about the a father of 4 kids getting fined because his wheelie bin was too full ( his rubbish is collected once every 2 weeks for goodness sake) he refused to pay and had to go to court and now has a CRIMINAL RECORD!!...Bunch of crazy loons run this country I telling ya. Whats next?...being fined for not tying your shoe lace...Big brother!! :)

Answer 6

Yes a bit excessive but I wonder if this had happened in her home she would have picked it up.?

Answer 7

Why didn't the pigeon get exterminated for eventual theft of the morsel in question?

Answer 8

yh it was on the front of the metro today

Answer 9

It doesn't surprise me. We will be taxed on breathing soon. I can just see it now:

GOVERNMENT INTRODUCES OXYGEN TAX. From next month all air breathed by the British general public in the UK will be pay-per-use. Anyone caught breathing too much air will be fined and have points on their licence. This country!!

Answer 10

Totally out of order.

Who was the clown who charged her ?

Words cannot describe him or her.

Answer 11

Miss Davies is in trouble because:

a]  she refused to give her name and address

b]  feeding the pigeons creates a health hazard and therefore she was probably breaking a bye-law.

c]  could be accused of child neglect because of the unhygienic way of feeding a child

d]  apparently there was enough time for her to return to the scene of the incident in order to photograph the "evidence".

Only one side of this story is being reported so we cannot express an informed opinion.  

What was her mother's part in this sorry tale?

They threatened her with arrest for refusing to give her name and fined her £75 - even though pigeons had already pecked up the morsel within seconds.

Miss Davies, 20, says she cannot afford the fine and is prepared to got to court to fight it.

She added: "I had just picked up Chloe from nursery. We were both hungry so I got us a sausage roll to share.

"I had a bite and then bent down to give a bit to Chloe, who was on her bike.

"A tiny bit missed her mouth and fell on the floor and seconds later some pigeons flew down and grabbed it.

"I crossed the road and was approached by two men. I thought they were canvassers because they were dressed in tracksuit bottoms.

"But one came up to me, said he was from the council and said I was going to be fined for dropping litter.

"He wasn't polite at all - he was rude, and I began to walk away.

"He then said I would be arrested if I didn't give him my name and details and started reading me my rights on the street.

"I felt really small and humiliated. I was treated like I was a criminal."

She added: "Where is the common sense? It was a small, bite-sized piece - just big enough for Chloe's mouth.

"I went back to take a picture of the litter, but it had been gobbled by pigeons. There was no litter there at all."

The incident happened in Hull city centre on Monday and the fine arrived in the post yesterday.

Miss Davies, who lives with her mother Wendy, 44, said: "I just can't pay out £75 for this, I have to live on benefits of £94 a week.

"The letter says I must pay within 14 days, but I haven't got the money. I would be prepared to go to court.

"I agree that people should not drop litter, but I was not dropping litter. I was just feeding my daughter, who likes sausage rolls.

"It affected her as well. She came to me after it had happened and said, 'Mummy, I was scared when those men came up to me'. It's just not right."

Her mother, who was with Miss Davies and Chloe at the time, said: "It's disgusting. The piece of sausage roll was on the floor for less than a minute.

"We tried to reason with the officers, but they didn't want to know - they weren't interested in what we had to say.

"Sarah is really worried now about how she's going to pay this money."

Hull City Council confirmed a fixed-penalty ticket had been issued by a member of its environment crime unit.

A spokesman said: "The fixed-penalty notice is the result of the mother's actions, not the child's."

It is the latest example of councils cracking down on apparently minor offences.

Earlier this week, 26-year- old bus driver Gareth Corkhill was ordered to pay £210 - a week's wages - after magistrates heard that the amount of rubbish in his wheelie bin had pushed up the lid by a few inches.

Mr Copeland, from Whitehaven, Cumbria, will have a criminal record - which he will have to disclose if he applies for a job, credit or a mortgage over the next five years.

Answer 12

people are ****** up   hate da police i do

Answer 13

If this is true were becomming a police state

Answer 14

Never read it but am dismayed because yet another way our government has come up with ways to steal our money, i wonder when they will try to tax the air that we breath...... was the same last week about the bus driver who's bin lid was open 4 inch's and he went to court and got fined £210 ...One day the people will stand up and say enough is enough.

Answer 15

It might sound harsh but litter is rubbish that has been carelessly left on the ground etc. People who drop cigarette buts are being fined so what's the difference? The seagulls would sort it out but they are usually banished by the 'offenders'.. I say if you wouldn't do it at home, don't do it outside.. And if they are going to enforce the 'litter' law, then it should apply to all...

Answer 16

too right im sick of picking up sausage rolls outside my house, the amount i pick up each week i tell u