Today’s Dead Hand of Bureaucracy URL

When my grandfather was very elderly and I was staying with my grandparents, one day my grandfather asked me to come with him on a trip to the store. His eyesight was kind of dim, and he asked me to navigate for him and make sure that no cars were coming. At least he could see something (the fact that we were going to the liquor store as he had run out of his favourite tipple also factors into it). A gentleman was caught driving dangerously a while back, but gave the officer quite a shock when he removed his sunglasses. His eyes had been removed after being damaged in a bomb blast in Iraq.

Despite the miscreant’s being blind, however, the judge’s sentence included a ban on driving for three years and the requirement that if he ever were to apply for a driver’s license, he was required to take an extended driving test.

The excuse was that the law required that sentence, even though the man was obviously unfit to drive, ever.

One wonders what he’ll do when the 3-year ban runs out.

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