Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 12:24 GMT
...if the Home Office has made 'being sold illegally' a crime in the UK yet?
If not, they really need get a law on the statute book ASAP to continue New Labour's highly successful new-crime-a-day legislationathon; whose previous hits include 'no illegal egg inspections', 'don't set off a nuclear explosion' and 'it's wrong to sell a grey squirrel don't you know?'. Those jails won't fill themselves up you know.
Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 12:37 GMT
haven't these people heard of eBay?
Posted Wednesday 10th September 2008 12:37 GMT
If you're being sold at the roadside against your will, I think government compensation is due. I also think they were worse off, because in African jails it's often a no-meals system, where you have to let your family members bribe the guards to bring you food... how much would they bother for the goats?
I wonder if this Congo ruling has implications for road-side fruit vendors all over the continent.
Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 10:21 GMT
Yet another stupid law meant to tax poor people and fill the dibble's pockets.
Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 15:49 GMT
Here in the states it was more a fad of the 1990s, and involved as I recall beating drums out in the woods.
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