Pet shop owner fined £1,000 and told to wear an electronic tag… for selling a GOLDFISH to a boy aged 14
Apr.04, 2010 By: Davy in
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This story was published to the Mail Online on 01/04/2010 and yet somehow it appears to NOT be an April fools joke…
Her offence was to unwittingly sell a goldfish to a 14-year-old boy taking part in a trading standards ’sting’.
At most, pet shop owner Joan Higgins, 66, expected a slap on the wrist for breaking new animal welfare laws which ban the sale of pets to under-16s.
Instead, the great-grandmother was taken to court, fined £1,000, placed under curfew – and ordered to wear an electronic tag for two months.
Read the full story here, but keep a sick bucket by your side.
April 4th, 2010 at 3:06 am
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April 4th, 2010 at 3:45 am
When I was 14, and earlier, I could buy a pound of sodium chlorate in a gardening shop and not one eyelid was batted.
We didn’t kill any weeds with it, other that those roasted in collateral damage.
And nobody was hurt or even inconvenienced.
As for goldfish, what about all that global warming that has just killed pond fish all over the country? Who’s getting tagged for that?