Wednesday, July 05, 2006

You can't do that!

No dogs. No skateboarding. No skatebiking. No bird feeding. No cycling. No hawking. No damage of plants. No releasing of fish and terrapin into the lake.

These are the rules on the signs at the entrance to Hong Kong Park, and they all seem fairly reasonable.
Digging abit deeper, I have found out that you are not allowed to construct or excavate any grave or deposit any human body in any grave so constructed or excavated, cause a public disturbance, behave in an offensive or indecent manner or be otherwise than properly clothed, to the annoyance of any other person operate or play, or make any sounds on, any musical or other instrument, including any gramophone or radio apparatus, or sing any song or shout or beg or gather alms or, for the purpose of gathering alms, expose or exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deformity.

Anyway, yesterday afternoon Peanut goes down to the park and sits on a bench reading her book. After a while she becomes tired and starts dozing. She is shocked awake by some officious little jobsworth shouting at her "Hey, you cannot sleep here!"

OK, if she was a vagrant and she was setting up camp, I could understand it, but having a doze in the sunshine on a park bench? That's bang out of order!

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