Light bulb spies to enter your home.

Cressers

Plans to allow eco-snoopers powers to forcibly enter your home and confiscate your light bulbs are revealed this morning as part of a tough new goverment programme to combat global warming and long-term unemployment. A new Enviromental Action Service will recruit the long-term unemployed to patrol the streets in the evening to spot houses still using the old style incandescent bulbs.

The EAS will in the first instance contact the housholder to offer them the chance to swap their old light bulbs for energy efficient models, but if the housholder refuses to allow a member of the EAS into their home, the EAS will have the power to call in a PCSO to insist upon entry. A full multi-agency house search will then be conducted, and any stocks of incandescent bulbs will be confiscated. Once a householder has come to the attention of the EAS they will be entered on a database, and further follow-up visits will be sheduled to ensure that they continue to use energy saving bulbs. Fixed penalty fines of up to £5000 may be levied on repeat offenders.

Ministers believe that though these measures may be seen as unfair by a few anti-social elements, most people will understand the reasons behind them and agree with them. Civil liberties groups are bound to condemn this as yet another intrusion by the state in peoples' private lives.















An April fool for now, but for how long?

john-e-big-guns

Who many Eco Snoopers will it take to change a light bulb I wonder????????

beverick

Yawn.......

Bob

Cressers

Could you do any better?

Still a couple of hours left...

Cressers

Maybe it wasn't so far from reality after all...

http://www.lep.co.uk/news/Town-Hall-sno ... 5972670.jp

Crapaud

I saw this posted as an April Fool elsewhere:

New York restaurant kitchens face threat of salt ban

Over the past few years New York has gained a reputation for taking the health of its citizens seriously – or nannying them, depending on your point of view.

Now a member of the city's legislative assembly has gone a step further by introducing a bill that would ban the use of salt in restaurant kitchens.

Bill A10129 would forbid the city's chefs from using salt in any of their recipes. The ban's proposer, Felix Ortiz, a Democratic member from Brooklyn, says it would give consumers the choice about whether to add salt to their meal.

Restaurants trying to sneak a bit of sodium chloride on to the plate would be fined $1,000 (£600) every time they were caught.

The idea of an outright ban, except for salt cellars on diners' tables, has led to raised eyebrows across the city, which prides itself on its cuisine. "If state assemblyman Felix Ortiz has his way," quipped the Daily News, "the only salt added to your meal will come from the chef's tears."

Tom Colicchio, who owns the restaurant Craft, told the paper: "If they banned salt, nobody would come here anymore."

Ortiz's bill comes on the back of a high-profile attempt by the city's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, to encourage New Yorkers to consume less sodium. The city estimates about 1.5 million residents already suffer from high blood pressure, which can be exacerbated by overconsumption of salt. In America as a whole, the average daily intake of 3,400mg is well above the recommended maximum of 2,300mg.

Bloomberg's campaign aims to cut the amount of salt in pre-packaged and restaurant food by a quarter, in five years. Unlike Bill A10129, however, it is purely voluntary.
At the end, they revealed that it was in fact from a Guardian article on 11th March.

Aggieboy

john-e-big-guns wrote:

Who many Eco Snoopers will it take to change a light bulb I wonder????????

One. He'll hold the bulb and let the world revolve around him.