AN £80 fine for dropping a matchstick (Oxford Mail, November 9), yet hundreds of cautions are handed out for GBH in a year.
Is it not time the people of this country said enough is enough?
I daresay the Magdalen College student will be able to afford the penalty, but there are others to whom £80 could represent the difference between adequate and inadequate eating or heating this winter.
Still, it’s easy money. And it gives certain types and their employers a feeling of power.
DAVID DIMENT, Riverside Court, Oxford
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