£50 fine for boy who fed seagull

 

Last updated at 22:00pm on 31st December 2006

 

A schoolboy has been given a £50 littering fine - for feeding half a chip to a seagull.

Jack Double, 14, was handed the on-the-spot fixed penalty by two council litter enforcement officers.

He said: 'I was walking along with a bag of chips on my lunch break when I bit into one and found it was really hard.

'The other half was green so I just threw it to a seagull.'

Jack refused to give his name to the officers but they followed him back to Chantry High School in Ipswich where staff identified him.

His mother Mandy has written to Ipswich Council to appeal against the fine, describing it as ridiculous.

Three weeks earlier Jack was awarded a certificate by an enforcement officer in the same area, commending him for putting his rubbish in a bin.

did the gull get a fine for crapping after eating the chip?

Jack refused to give his name to the officers but they followed him back to Chantry High School in Ipswich where staff identified him.

 

YEAH! Fight the power! :P

And $50- that's pretty steep for some damn bird. Craziest thing I've read in a while...