Flag End Of The Day
A British fireman is facing prosecution for flying a $10 pirate flag, the skull-and-crossbones, outside his home for his daughter's pirate-themed eighth birthday party. David Waterman, faces legal action for refusing to remove the Jolly Roger flag. Under current laws, anyone flying a flag outside a residential property has to have planning permission unless it is the national flag.
FOOTNOTE: Golly, Roger.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
Skill And Crossbones
Please Take Down Your Flag, Ma’am
A Hampshire woman has been ordered to remove a pirate flag from her garden. Carol Clark, from Whitchurch, was told the skull and crossbones breaches advertising rules. "It's daft. I thought someone was playing a joke at first," she said. A keen sailor, she hoisted the black and white Jolly Roger after a friend gave it to her as a joke. But her local council says only national or regional flags may be flown without planning permission - because everything else is deemed to be advertising.
FOOTNOTE: Jolly unfortunate, Roger.
A Hampshire woman has been ordered to remove a pirate flag from her garden. Carol Clark, from Whitchurch, was told the skull and crossbones breaches advertising rules. "It's daft. I thought someone was playing a joke at first," she said. A keen sailor, she hoisted the black and white Jolly Roger after a friend gave it to her as a joke. But her local council says only national or regional flags may be flown without planning permission - because everything else is deemed to be advertising.
FOOTNOTE: Jolly unfortunate, Roger.
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