Thursday, March 24, 2011

Australia continues to amuse the planet as the Keystone Nanny State

They scribble chalk drawings of fish and rainbows - but a council has branded these toddlers graffiti vandals.

The footpath outside a Nunawading cafe has become a battleground after Whitehorse Council put the kybosh on children's fun.

The council says the scrawlings contravene graffiti laws but White's Cafe says the comparison is like chalk and cheese.

Sally White, who owns the Mt Pleasant Rd cafe with husband PJ, said it was bureaucracy gone mad. "It's a little bit sad. This is not graffiti,," she said. "A council inspector visited us and said there had been a complaint and we had to stop.

"The children burst into tears when we told them."


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