Once Great Britain welcomes you to my Monday morning
I have no idea if this is true, but it is taken from February’s edition of Shooting Sports magazine
“… A friend of mine was shooting in Devon last week & he & one of his fellow guns were stopped on th A361 at about 5pm & both were breathalysed on the grounds that even the passenger [in a car] might be committing an offence if he was show to be over the limit in charge of shotguns. Both were clear & proceeded on their way …apparently the Police are targeting 4x4 vehicles throughout the country but especially in shooting areas & particularly if they are muddy & it is after lunch.”
Now just of the record or the Court papers, whichever come first, no I do not think that you should be as drunk as a cabinet minister waving a firearm around in the pub car park. However if you are not driving, minding your own business having had a few snifters with your shotgun/rifle safely stowed, then the Police Ministerium für Staatssicherheit have no right to breathalyse you.
Indeed, if your humble correspondent were to be in a state of advanced refreshment, snoozing if the passenger seat on the way home; any copper that invited me to take a breath test would be cordially invited to phuque off & hang the consequences.
Then there is this...
A 12-year-old boy had to surrender his toy rifle to police amid tight security around the Queen's visit to church at Sandringham
Mind you, given the Police's recent track record even having a toy pop gun runs you the risk of getting a full Brazilian
The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching”.
A nice place this country has become!
Comments
Have to tell you, I read a couple of Telegraphs while I was Over There, and I was consumed by both rage and despair, at the actions of the BritGov and at those of the BritYoof, respectively.
We're all safely back in the Land Of The Fee Where The Buffalo Roam, by the way.
And speaking of Rome, I never want to eat another Itailian meal ever again, on principle. Worst, most expensive tucker ever.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | January 5, 2009 10:59 AM
Kim, I'm still going cold turkey after the demise of your blog. When I heard the hilarious news about Gov Blagojovich trying to sell The One's senatorial seat, my first thought was to go and see what you made of it. Shame!
Posted by: John K | January 5, 2009 3:14 PM
"Liquor? Thats just my chromed muffler, Officer."
Posted by: Kristopher | January 5, 2009 5:29 PM
'...state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking...'
So hacking is driving a coach-and-four through the law. I am just beginning to understand the English language. I like it, so far.
Hacking. Heh.
Posted by: comatus | January 5, 2009 7:14 PM
Roughly how long do you think it will be before the government starts putting chips in everybody's necks so they can be tracked "for their protection"?
I'd say I'm being sarcastic, but at the rate things seem to be going over there....
Posted by: MauserMedic | January 5, 2009 7:29 PM
Its already been poo pooed by the shooting press but then it is really believable!
Posted by: TimC | January 5, 2009 7:55 PM
Good to hear from Kim, now he has time for himself ! I have run away but my family are still there but all rum Apple computers, it is one thing to hack a windows box but a Mac?? even without engaging the high security features (file vault, supposed to take the CIA 3 months to crack that) they would have to have physical access to see what they imagine is within. England has run out of males, no balls left anywhere (Mrs T wore the last pair in parliament) present blog company excepted.
Posted by: Chris Edwards | January 6, 2009 1:12 AM