Bradford, England: “A judge has condemned a ‘grotesque’ waste of taxpayers’ money spent on prosecuting teenager Larissa Wilkinson for allowing her 18 month-old niece to drop a sweet wrapper.” [Telegraph]
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The council blamed the defendant for allowing it to go to crown court. The council, though, refused to understand it was their law, their decision to prosecute and their decision to spend all this money prosecuting this case. The apex of the council’s stupidity was insisting “There can be no doubt that rubbish thrown from vehicles contributes greatly to the defacement of our streets and is a problem local authorities need to address,” is if a single wrapper can really be equated with that statement.
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