Dear LPG readers, 

I recently read a post on these pages where one of those what’s good for the goose morals was brought into play briefly (►►►).

After all the other aspects of horse manure that were alluded to, the piece's author mentioned the inequality of the law when it comes to cleaning up after the different animals we are responsible for.

I have to agree. What was mentioned triggered me to do a little research on some of our country's more unusual laws, and I found a few that might make readers smile. 

After the laughing session, I began thinking about some of the more serious aspects of law-making, and that saying about rules being made to be broken came to mind.   

There are so many rules and laws, and it is often not until the unfairness of one of them becomes apparent because it affects us personally that we even become aware of just how unfair and obsolete some of them can be.  While I don’t believe in breaking the law, when we come across one that might need a little updating or complete abolishment, nothing will change unless we go some way towards changing it.  Now and then, each of us will have to succumb to one that we disagree with; if enough of us make our disapproval officially known, there will come a time when, sometime in the future, a person who finds themselves in the same situation will get a better outcome. 

As we go through the different stages of life, there always seems to be too much to do, especially when the law gets in the way. But if there is a stage of life when we have a bit of time on our hands, we (the more recently retired) are the people who will have the time to do more than tell their friends about how unjust they are.  

There are many aspects of the law, ranging from national law to those little ones that local and much smaller organisations make, but we need to let those who have the power to change them know about our concerns before a change will ever happen.  

So, I want to leave a message for all those readers who have found some aspect of the law unfair and ask them to refrain from adopting the attitude that their one complaint will not make a difference. If more of us take the time to get on the phone and write those letters and emails, at least some of those laws will get updated. 

We have to remember that all those solitary complaints remind the powers that be that they are supposed to exist for the good of their customers and service users rather than to make lots of money for their managers and executives.  

CP, Bromley 

CP offers some links to laws that might surprise you…

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