i have a cat dog & mini horse....
a couple of council officers were doing council stuff in the nature reserve over the road...they walked past my house on their way back to the car and saw my mini horse were patting him for a while then left....
A week later I got a ph call from one of the council officers - she was a knob...
She started off by demanding my mini horse be removed or she’d come with police to get him, I’d go to court etc etc
Told her he had a special permit was ok to be there...calm down...
This woman had a bee in her bonnet...once she realised my horse was ok to be there....she said “right I saw a dog in your yard and a cat on the balcony as well - they better be registered...” all I heard was tap tap tap on the keyboard...she said “ yes your dogs registration is overdue - I’m issuing you a $320 fine for that....” then she said “can’t see a cat registered at your property- I saw your cat - there’s no cat on my system- that means your cats not registered - i’ll be issuing another $320 for that”....
Biartch....
This does not seem legal to me....
If you didn’t pay you car rego and your car was parked in your driveway - you wouldn’t expect a policeman would search the police database with your address because he saw the car parked when he drove past your house ...when he saw yep car un-registered on the computer- that’s a fine for you....
This council officer was literally walking past my house - saw a cat and dog in a securely fenced yard minding their own business...she then went back to her office typed my address into her computer to see if she could fine me...and did!
Seems a bit unfair...you don’t see council cruising the streets noting who’s got pets in the yard - then checking rego’s and issuing fines when they get back to the office....
Would it be some kind of privacy law breach perhaps? Miss using my personal info that’s stored on their system...I dunno
Interested to hear thoughts...
a couple of council officers were doing council stuff in the nature reserve over the road...they walked past my house on their way back to the car and saw my mini horse were patting him for a while then left....
A week later I got a ph call from one of the council officers - she was a knob...
She started off by demanding my mini horse be removed or she’d come with police to get him, I’d go to court etc etc
Told her he had a special permit was ok to be there...calm down...
This woman had a bee in her bonnet...once she realised my horse was ok to be there....she said “right I saw a dog in your yard and a cat on the balcony as well - they better be registered...” all I heard was tap tap tap on the keyboard...she said “ yes your dogs registration is overdue - I’m issuing you a $320 fine for that....” then she said “can’t see a cat registered at your property- I saw your cat - there’s no cat on my system- that means your cats not registered - i’ll be issuing another $320 for that”....
Biartch....
This does not seem legal to me....
If you didn’t pay you car rego and your car was parked in your driveway - you wouldn’t expect a policeman would search the police database with your address because he saw the car parked when he drove past your house ...when he saw yep car un-registered on the computer- that’s a fine for you....
This council officer was literally walking past my house - saw a cat and dog in a securely fenced yard minding their own business...she then went back to her office typed my address into her computer to see if she could fine me...and did!
Seems a bit unfair...you don’t see council cruising the streets noting who’s got pets in the yard - then checking rego’s and issuing fines when they get back to the office....
Would it be some kind of privacy law breach perhaps? Miss using my personal info that’s stored on their system...I dunno
Interested to hear thoughts...