Wednesday, 2 March 2011

"Armed with nothing but a heightened sense of smell.."

The Daily Mail on top form:

Drivers who light cigarettes in company cars are being hunted down by 'sniffer wardens' after a council teamed up with police to smoke them out.

Tendring District Council and Essex Police are so eager to catch employees having a puff behind the wheel that they've set up road blocks across the county. Armed with nothing but a heightened sense of smell, the sharp-nosed enforcers lie in wait, sniffing inside the cars of suspected lawbreakers, and scouring for used ashtrays...

8 comments:

View from the Solent said...

Lucky residents of Tendring, where there is so little crime that the police have to find make-work.

Woman on a Raft said...

You had me there - I thought you meant Daily Mash.

Good news - we now know whose job to cut. Every little helps.

Mark Wadsworth said...

VFTS, I wonder how this will affect their house prices - there'll be loads of dots on their crime map where once were none!

WOAR, yes, I see how the confusion could arise.

Bayard said...

If I was a smoker, I'd eat plenty of beans.

Anonymous said...

A quick round of applause should go the Mail reader who commented on the story "start from this proposition: Many people in positions of high authority and responsibility in this country are mentally unsound. Once you realize this things become clearer."

James Higham said...

Anonymous is quite right here.

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, then there's a risk of explosions.

Anon, indeed. There is every reason to assume that they are completely unhinged from our reality, but they operate on a different level of reality.

banned said...

I love +ticking the boxes when Mail readers go mental.