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to think pregnant Mums who are fined for dropping fag ends should not go complaining to the local paper about their unfair treatment?

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islandofsodor · 30/09/2008 20:23

Yes, I know that smoking is an addiction and some people find it really hard to give up but this woman in our local paper seems to think she has been treated so unfairly.

She was fined for dropping a cigarette end on the floor. She claims she only dropped it temporarily with her bags so she could attend to her 3 year old daughter.

She couldn't bend down to pick it up as she was heavily pregnant with a cracked pelvis so she asked the 3 year old to pick it up for her!!!!! She was then pounced on by a council official.

If this was a posting on Mumsnet I would think troll. Are some people for real.

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MaloryDontDiveItsShallow · 30/09/2008 20:24

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MadOldAggie · 30/09/2008 20:26

Thats about as gobsmacking as the time I overheard a heavily pg woman telling her mate she was missing eating angel delight ,but wouldn't touch it as it was bad for the baby all this was said while she was puffing away on a fag .

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wahwah · 30/09/2008 20:27

Am impressed with those 'council officials'. If they fine someone for dropping a dog end, they must bring out the firing squad for fly tippers. Marvellous entertainment.

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Twelvelegs · 30/09/2008 20:28

Did they show a picture??? Astounding.

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TheCrackFox · 30/09/2008 20:28

Could she not have discreetly disposed of her fag but in an empty froot shoot bottle?

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islandofsodor · 30/09/2008 20:29

Yes the picture looks a bit (cough) well a certain type of person, you know.

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acoady · 30/09/2008 20:30

Ooooh, I'm so outraged!



Andrea.

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alicet · 30/09/2008 20:37

Link please!!!!

pmsl! Some people really do think the world owes them a favour don't they

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islandofsodor · 30/09/2008 21:08

www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk

The pic in the paper is much bigger than theone online

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preggersplayspop · 30/09/2008 21:15

The comments added by people on the website are hilarious, especially the one about her being named after a deodorant.

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TheCrackFox · 30/09/2008 21:22

And we all thought the argy bargy on MN could get out of hand? The comments on the website don't pull their punches, do they?

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unknownrebelbang · 30/09/2008 21:23

Haha. Twas a fine article, .

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totallypeedoff · 30/09/2008 21:23

"dirty trout"

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onager · 30/09/2008 21:26

I make a point of putting mine carefully in trash bins full of dry paper. I am good like that and wouldn't want to upset people.

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elmoandella · 30/09/2008 21:28

PMSL

comments are great

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Eddas · 30/09/2008 21:30

rofl at the comments after the story

she sounds like quite a catch, wish I was male

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ethanchristopher · 30/09/2008 21:36

from that picture all i can say is...

CHAV!

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ThinWhiteDuchess · 30/09/2008 22:53

5 cigarettes a day? My arse!

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Simplysally · 30/09/2008 23:02

It actually reads like a spoof, doesn't it?

The mispelt name, the cigarettes, her mother's age.

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megandtyler · 30/09/2008 23:23

i can't get the tune of that dodgy deoderant commercial out of my head.
dodgy cartoon and some women wailing limara at the top of her voice
i think she went on to do the whooaa bodyform commercial after
is that limara's sister

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nametaken · 01/10/2008 00:21

She's so gorgeous someone even named a body spray after her

LIMARA

That's the funniest thing I've read for years

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frazzledali · 01/10/2008 03:08

oh my goodness, I thought this was a joke but the article is spectacular...

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JODIEhadababy · 01/10/2008 07:33

Is it me, or does the woman in the picture look like Waynetta Slob from Harry Enfield?

'I'm smoking a faaaaaggg'

I don't know what's worse, he smoking while pregnant, or asking her little girl to pic the nub end up for her?? Oh dear lord, what is the world coming to?

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PinkyDinkyDooToo · 01/10/2008 09:55

I expected the date of the article to say April 1st.

Unbelievable

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