Mother fined £75 for dropping 'a bit of sausage roll'

Mother fined £75 for dropping 'a bit of sausage roll'
A single mother has been fined £75 for "littering" after her daughter dropped a piece of sausage roll on the pavement. Sarah Davies, 20, was feeding Chloe, four, when the roll slipped from her grasp inches from her daughter's mouth and fell to the floor. The incident happened in Hull city centre on Monday and a fixed penalty fine arrived in the post just three days later. Miss Davies said that pigeons swooped down to eat the remains just moments later. She said: "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 - at first I thought they were canvassers as 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.” She added: “I felt really small and humiliated. I was treated like I was a criminal. Where is the common sense? It was a small, bite-sized piece - just big enough for her 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.” Hull City Council confirmed a fixed penalty ticket had been issued by a member of its Environment Crime Unit. A spokeswoman for Hull City Council said: “The issuing of the fixed penalty notice is the result of the mother’s actions and not as a result of child’s.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/25/nroll125.xml "...bullied by scum."

boy i know where i`d like to shove that sausage roll :x

Re: Mother fined £75 for dropping 'a bit of sausage roll'
A single mother has been fined £75 for "littering" after her daughter dropped a piece of sausage roll on the pavement. The "Environment Crime Unit" employee concerned is utter scum in my opinion. How can a piece of sausage roll be seriously designated litter? Its biodegradeable for f**k's sake. Next thing you know they will be charging people with littering because the trees in their garden are dropping leaves on a public road or pavement.

Re: Mother fined £75 for dropping 'a bit of sausage roll'
Next thing you know they will be charging people with littering because the trees in their garden are dropping leaves on a public road or pavement. Indeed.... Woman accused of littering for sweeping leaves into gutter A stunned householder was accused of littering - for sweeping leaves from a roadside tree into the gutter. For 12 years, Sandra Pote and Malcolm Dodd had dutifully brushed leaves from the council-owned tree outside their home into the kerb for collection. But this year a roadsweeper who found Mrs Pote sweeping up told her she was breaking the law. The 61-year-old was given a humiliating dressing-down by a council worker, which reduced her to tears. The large plane tree outside the couple's home in Windsor Road, Torquay, drops thousands of leaves on their driveway every autumn. It is the responsibility of Torbay Council which maintains both the road and the trees on it. But, the couple were told, if the leaves fall on householders' property, it is their responsibility to clean them up. snip http://tinyurl.com/6opdyb

Damn. I hate litter, but this is ridiculous. To me, little is people tossing old McDonald's bags - trash - out the window of their cars that doesn't go away. That's little. Sausage rolls will get taken care of anyway by critters - like what happened here with the birds. Exactly. I'd be more than happy to have the public flogging (in my more extreme moments public execution) of people who drop real litter - but small quantities of food don't harm the environment at all. A small fragment of a sausage roll, an apple core &c. are all far better off gently decomposing in nature than being carted around to landfill.

A small fragment of a sausage roll, an apple core &c. are all far better off gently decomposing in nature than being carted around to landfill. I suppose it could be argued that it encourages vermin.

A small fragment of a sausage roll, an apple core &c. are all far better off gently decomposing in nature than being carted around to landfill. I suppose it could be argued that it encourages vermin. Well ... I suppose that's why Mummy gave it to the little varmint in the first place!

Re: Mother fined £75 for dropping 'a bit of sausage roll'
Woman accused of littering for sweeping leaves into gutter A stunned householder was accused of littering - for sweeping leaves from a roadside tree into the gutter. For 12 years, Sandra Pote and Malcolm Dodd had dutifully brushed leaves from the council-owned tree outside their home into the kerb for collection. But this year a roadsweeper who found Mrs Pote sweeping up told her she was breaking the law. The 61-year-old was given a humiliating dressing-down by a council worker, which reduced her to tears. The large plane tree outside the couple's home in Windsor Road, Torquay, drops thousands of leaves on their driveway every autumn. It is the responsibility of Torbay Council which maintains both the road and the trees on it. But, the couple were told, if the leaves fall on householders' property, it is their responsibility to clean them up. snip http://tinyurl.com/6opdyb Insanity. If some jobsworth council employee tried that on with me I'd knock him out on general principle.

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