Originally Posted by The Bear

Well sorry, guys, but I can see the sense in this. If I lived in a group of houses and someone chose to fly a darned big flag such as that, be it the Jolly Roger or the Union flag and all things in-between in the way that he did, I would not be greatly impressed.

Let’s look at the facts.

For one thing we don’t know when his daughters birthday was, all we do know is that the council received a complaint on April 16th.

He was SENT a letter on April 21st, that’s 5 days later telling him he had 7 days to take the horrible big thing down, and big it certainly was.

5 feet by 3 feet, that’s not far short of the size of a single bed sheet. Hanging out in front of a house in a residential area.

We also know that he left the thing in place for days after the party, we have to wonder why.

Why he left such an inappropriate thing hanging outside a house in what otherwise looks like a quite respectable area.

We also read that his kids behaviour has been cause for complaint in the past, so maybe there’s more to this than just a guy being pilloried for being a bit eccentric and there’s more than a little “let’s wind them up” dimension involved on his part.

So rather than it being a guy being persecuted by some “jobsworth” it actually looks far more like a guy with a family that are causing concern by their behaviour to at least some of his neighbours bringing down the “tone” of where he lives even further and the local council doing their job and tackling overt acts that are simply wrong for the neighbourhood.

That’s the problem with the gutter press.

So often they pre-digest a story and present it in a way that so much of the real meat is lost in the pursuit of sensationalism and impact in order to draw and hold the crowds.