Hi Tim, it is a today tonight Adelaide story about a guy who imported a corvette and they would not register it because the paint was "not original" I.E. it had some after market stripes. Another bloke was knocked back because his radiator fan was blue and not the original black. A google or YouTube search may find it.
I believe that once the T.V. Got involved, all have since been passed for rego.
Ah yes, not surprising in today's nannying red-tape world. I have just finished reading a letter in New Scientist in which a person in Florida claims that they are forced to have 60% of the viewable garden on their property covered by an approved species of non drought tolerant non native grass kept to an approved standard. All in a time when they are being told to be more environmentally responsible.
There is no-one lower in my esteem than a bureaucrat. They reside even lower than politician. They are the killers of fun, people, business, community, society and country; even sport and music are not immune. Bureaucracy is the end of us all.
And when I say killers, that is quite often literal.
Governments ask why depression, anxiety and suicide are so prevalent, they need to look a bit more closely at themselves.
Next time you say "someone should do something about that" or "there should be a law about that", think carefully what it is you are asking for.
Bureaucrats are always ready to grab authority for anything and to start saying no and you must/must not. Their empire is always building, and pillaging where they think they can get away with it.
Somebody should do something about them.
I work on the theory that there are two types of bureaucrat, those who are so disappointed in the ruin of their own life that they have to take it out on everyone else, and the closet nazi.
The dullest, least creative, least imaginative (sub)humans have to do something I guess...
In perhaps the greatest ironic twist ever, here our main bureaucrats call themselves public servants. Sort of like those totalitarian countries that call themselves The Democratic x of y.
Tim.
