Girly council hammer boy

The Blithering Bunny points out this act of anti-Imperial violence:

One day last year, Mr James, a trading standards official of Torbay council in Devon walked into Dennis Webb's fruit shop. When he saw that, despite a previous warning, Mr Webb was still using scales that measured only in pounds and ounces, Mr James produced a hammer and a metal punch with which, according to Mr Webb, he struck the scales so hard as to render them unusable.

Of course, initial complaints seem to have fallen on deaf ears. There’s also something about the data protection act which, I assume, does indeed cover reverse-luddite damage to the private property of British citizens via the use of Torbay council hammers.

Obviously being council hammers they are pretty crap at doing any actual hammering. You see the council admits that its officer had "taken action to take the scales out of use". Yup, by hitting them with a hammer. However, and we might have guessed, "this action did not damage the scales".

I bet if the scales were one of those new fangle EU approved metric scales, rather than a set of stout Imperial ones, they would have been completely destroyed.

Or, more likely, they would have surrendered at the first sight of the hammer.

Posted by John at November 15, 2004 08:24 AM | TrackBack