The people went to the President to ask for protection but he replied,
All of the Army has been seconded to the European Defence Force and is deployed enforcing sanctions against countries that won't use the metric system. In any case, under the latest edict from Strasbourg, the Beast is a protected species so I'm afraid that it will just have to be allowed to eat you all. It's the only way we can ensure bio-diversity, you know.

So it came to pass that one night, Sam the Baker's son was delivering a tray a pastries to an all night sitting of the working party to the sub committee on ethnic diversity. The committee was drafting a new executive order to enforce positive affirmation policies pertaining to the recruitment of particle physicians. It was felt by the members that to insist that scientists actually had a working knowledge of sub atomic particles was elitist & exclusive.

As Sam passed along the darkened streets he felt the ground start to tremble & the sound of roaring filled the air. Sam began to run but is his panic he took a wrong turn and there at the end of the street stood the Beast. He hammered on the nearest door, yelling,
Please let me in or for sure I shall become the latest victim of continental eco-legal hegemony!However, the householders shouted back,
We can't. Under the latest Belgian child protection regulations, we might be deemed to have groomed you in an internet chat room. We could be extradited & face a sentence of 25 years re-education and strawberry favoured beer.So it was that Sam was left to face his fate, which was fast approaching on all six legs.

Please don't eat me, Mr Beast,Sam pleaded as the monstrous animal towered over him, I'm only little & skinny.
Why ever not young man? enquired the beastly behemoth. I'll devour you first & have your cakes for my pudding fixing Sam in an eight eyed stare.
Because it would be an infringement of the protection afforded me & enforced by the European Court of Human Rights.
So? replied the carnivore which promptly ate both child & cakes in two mouthfuls.

Later that night, while sitting in its cave the Beast reflected upon what Sam had told him. Filled with remorse (has well as boy & cakes) the Beast applied to work for the European Atomic Energy Authority under their newly introduced positive affirmation programme. There he truly came to understand and embrace the ideals of the Maastricht Treaty. Only occasionally did he eat a lab technician as he found that their glasses tended to get stuck in his teeth & their pocket calculators, a mite indigestible.