Come Again?

   Authorities in Australia have issued an apology to the family of a man to whom they issued a parking ticket. His car was parked in the lot of a shopping mall in Melbourne and he was inside it - dead - at the time the ticket was issued. He had been missing for nine days and the ticket was issued on the eighth day of that timespan. If the ticket was given because the car had been sitting there too long, didn't the ticket giver see the old man inside?

   Authorities in Canada, too, have been forced to apologize. This one is a world of difference from the Australian blunder, however. Correctional Service Canada has been ordered to pay $5,000. in damages to Vlado Malikovich because he was exposed to second-hand smoke in a prison near Gravenhurst, Ontario. Why was Malikovich in the jail where all that nasty-wasty smoke was being exhaled? He was serving time for murdering his wife and daughter. If sentences here in Canada went a little more the way I wish they would, that creep would already have had the death sentence served on him. He would have been blasted into eternity by several shotguns all aimed at him the minute the guilty verdict was returned, and he never would have been there inhaling someone else's second-hand ciggy fumes. Voila! A saving of $5,000.