[Madhatter]

our town atually used the towns cctv and special undercover officers to fine people who dropped cigarettes ends on the pavements. This is despite the fact that non of the rubbish bins had stubbers on them. SO before you go in the supermarket to buy your food, your supposed to throw it on the floor step on it to put it out and pick it up to put it in the plastic bins or stub it out on the shop front, blackening the wall up and then put it in the bin. They have since fitted metal bins with stubbers on the top, whether I had anything to do with this i'm not sure but they sudenly appeared one day. Still a risk of the bin being set on fire though.

Anyway, my friend threw the butt on the floor and stubbed it out, the bods in the cctv dept radiod the secret undercover cigarette but dropper spotter and she followed my friend in to sommerfield, which is private property, then, infront of her 5 yr old daughter proceeded to tell her how naughty she'd been, and that what she'd done is illegal as it's littering, and that she wanted my friends name and address as she'd get a 60 pound fine. The daughter became very upset at this and started to cry.
she got the fine, but I believe it was dropped in the end. I'm totally against littering but I still believe this to be a totall waste of public money, infact an illegal use of public money as it's not the reason or use the cctv equipment was installed for for.