Comments on: Missing Cat Poster Got Boy ASBO'd

By: MrPumpernickel

MrPumpernickel — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:26:13 +0000

Johnny Cat, if you're going to quote someone at least do it properly. Benjamin Franklin never said that, what he said was:

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:10:36 +0000

Meanwhile, the REAL hooligans are doing as they please. I hope the kid found his kitty safe and well.

By: Peeler

Peeler — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:13:56 +0000

He didn't get an ASBO but was contacted by the local council who subsequently backed down.
There is a lot of this going on in the UK at the moment. Expect more until the next election.

By: Peeler

Peeler — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:12:26 +0000

He didn't get an ASBO but was contacted by the local councilwho subsequently backed down.
There is a lot of this going on in the UK at the moment. Expect more until the next election.

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:30:21 +0000

To be fair the council did apologise and say it'd been overzealous. That kind of thing happens all the time and isn't really newsworthy. It's newsworthy when the council continues to overstep the mark and actually carries out the action threatened by its twit of a warden. And, indeed, that does happen from time to time and does end up in the papers and then the council's /really/ got egg all over its face.

By: Moose

Moose — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:27:40 +0000

I'd have told the moronic community warden where to go if I was his parent. It's nothing to do with the welfare of the community it's about jobs worths who pick the easiest target and then this is counted as lowering anti-social behaviour. This government is a joke.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:59:17 +0000

So it is. That's what I get posting after my bedtime.

By: Kirkburn

Kirkburn — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:29:14 +0000

Thomas ... isn't that exactly what the article says?

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:48:36 +0000

That poor kid. Bad enough he lost his cat. The UK is getting increasingly ridiculous about this sort of thing.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:58:30 +0000

Then why not just inform the parents that the kid needed to remove the posters or face a fine. I'm sure the kid would have been happy to oblige. He seems like a nice kid.

By: David B

David B — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:56:56 +0000

As an employee of a small city in California I understand where this ASBO law comes from. Hardly anybody ever removes their personal posters announcing lost pets, yard sales and what not. We had a case not too long ago where posters for a lost cat were put up on every pole and post within a half mile radius. The cat was found shortly thereafter (and not because of this poster blitz) but city employees took them down, not the citizens that put them up. t took a lot of tax paid man hours to remove them that could be put to better use. To me it's a form of graffiti.

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:15:20 +0000

Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither. -World citizen, Ben Franklin

By: rdubs

rdubs — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:50:40 +0000

Watch Hot Fuzz. hahahahhaa neghbor commitee.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:19:32 +0000

It is getting a lot worse than this. There are laws in the works to install video cameras in public housing to monitor people deemed anti-social, and provisions that will allow the government to take children from their parents based on these laws. Not to mention the forced drugging of pregnant women, their unborn children and others...

Psychiatrists are being this crap and should be stopped.

By: Steohawk

Steohawk — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:02:54 +0000

It seems that the UK is rapidly becoming more authoritarian. Of course, I'm hard pressed to think of a single country that's becoming less authoritarian.

By: Dianne

Dianne — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:00:42 +0000

Just goes to show ya there are crazy laws and crazy people everywhere! What a sweet little guy. Bless the beast and the children! You were in the right little buddy and your compassion will not go unnoticed.

By: Cat

Cat — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:50:36 +0000

I was a bit confused by the whole issue regarding the ASBO law and this boy, so I looked up the ASBO law, and it seems this isn't the first over-zealous ruling by neighborhoods on this law.

The only way that this could have been ASBO is if the neighbors considered the posters vandalism or defacing public property. But to me it really seems as if the law is designed to create scapegoats and give neighbors excuses to harp on other neighbors.

I agree that it would be nice to have a similar law in the United States, but this story (and other similar to it) show that too much power can be given to the people.