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June 11, 2006
British Bureaucrats Cower From Palm Trees
While some moonbats don't see a problem with gorillas wandering loose, others think even palm trees are too dangerous. In Torbay, England, council officials have written to the chamber of trade complaining that the palm trees emblematic of the English Riviera might scratch somebody with their sharp leaves.
Due to this terrifying danger, the council's senior urban design and landscape officer Paul Osborne holds that
It is usually not appropriate for palms to be placed in heavily pedestrian streets.
Liberal Democrat Colin Charlwood compared palm trees to tigers, and emphasized that "they need to be placed out of harm's way."
As Tim Jones of the Devon and Cornwall Business Council observes, "the nanny state has gone absolutely mad."
Sixty odd years ago, the English stood down the Third Reich against overwhelming odds. Now some of their leaders are afraid of palm trees. What a difference two generations of moonbattery can make.
Thanks to V the K for the tip.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 11, 2006 3:32 PM
Comments
Oh, those wouldn't be the palms he's talking about. In Britain, the kind of palms he'll be discussing are usually about 5 to 10ft tall at most, and they are pretty spiky. On the other hand only an idiot would walk in to them.
But that's the lib-dems for you...
Posted by: Archonix at June 11, 2006 4:33 PM
Welcome to the NERF World.
Posted by: Brass at June 11, 2006 6:20 PM
Funny, and I though the British "stood down the Third Reich against overwhelming odds"- apparently, according to yet another geographically challenged English person it was only the English !
Posted by: Alan Trenhaile at June 11, 2006 7:26 PM
I look at what western society has become and wonder what I'm holding onto. Maybe we deserve to burn in the fire of Allah wrath after all.
Posted by: associatecontributor1 at June 11, 2006 8:22 PM
