Schadenfreude

[nineveh_uk]

I'm often uneasy with the concept of name and shame, but in this particular case I really couldn't be. After all, there was technically no naming. Just an absolutely enormous car, a monstrous black and shining four-wheel drive thing with tinted windows, plastered with chrome, half motor vehicle, half whale, the sort of thing that vampire presidents would drive.

Plastered over the driver's window (kerbside) was a big yellow notice: UNTAXED VEHICLE. Affixed to the windscreen, a second, smaller yellow notice: notice of refuse removal.

My heart bled. I then made a note that my car tax is due at the end of this month.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I read an obituary in the Oxford Times once about a local citizen whose strong sense of civic duty compelled him to check up on whether the cars parked near his house had a valid tax disc and, if not, to report their owners to the police. The sub-text was definitely, "Everyone in the neighbourhood is looking forward to dancing on his grave".

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

There's nothing like community spirit...