If it wasn’t for those darn kids and their dog!
Oh, how many times have the dastardly spoken those words? Countless times, to be sure.
And it will continue for the foreseeable future, except that the newly dastardly will not be guilty of scaring old Miss Edna off her farm. Nope, they’ll just be getting busted for not recycling.
Children aged eight enlisted as council snoopers
Children as young as eight have been recruited by councils to “snoop” on their neighbours and report petty offences such as littering, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The youngsters are among almost 5,000 residents who in some cases are being offered £500 rewards if they provide evidence of minor infractions.
One in six councils contacted by the Telegraph said they had signed up teams of “environment volunteers” who are being encouraged to photograph or video neighbours guilty of dog fouling, littering or “bin crimes”.
The “covert human intelligence sources”, as some local authorities describe them, are also being asked to pass on the names of neighbours they believe to be responsible, or take down their number-plates.
“Covert Human Intelligence Sources”?
Holy farts in a jar! They gone and deputized the neighborhood yobs-in-training.
Just how long do you think it will be before one of these snot-nosed pukes sets up an extortion racket on his block?
Though, I must say, if they’re wanting them to write down license plates, they will first have to teach them how write.
Found at Counting Cats
Sounds a lot like the Hitler Youth, doesn’t it?
Nah, it’s Big Brother’s Spies. The UK isn’t that far from truly being Oceania/Ingsoc.
In truth, it reminds me much more of the East German Stasi; at the height of the Communists’ power ONE in FIVE East Germans was reporting either full or part time on their neighbors and coworkers. In a country of 17 million, that’s 3.4 million informants.