DR Congo minister liberates imprisoned goats
The Democratic Republic of Congo's deputy justice minister Claude Nyamugabo has ordered police to release a dozen goats being held in a Kinshasa jail on a "being sold illegally by the roadside" rap. An "astonished" Nyamugabo discovered the caprine perps during a routine visit. According to the BBC, they were due to stand trial …
...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.
haven't these people heard of eBay?
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.
Yet another stupid law meant to tax poor people and fill the dibble's pockets.
Here in the states it was more a fad of the 1990s, and involved as I recall beating drums out in the woods.
