It Could Be Worse
I did a lot of work for developers when I lived in San Diego and listened to their complaints about all of the roadblocks that interfered with ability to “rape” the landscape and build their “cracker box” houses. [As listening was billable time, I didn’t object to their rants. Some of their complaints were actually reasonable, but that didn’t make the profits earned on their “products” less obscene.]
I can imagine the reaction of some of those people if faced with the circumstances described in this Times [the real one in London] story: Fairies stop developers’ bulldozers in their tracks
Marcus Salter, head of Genesis Properties, estimates that the small colony of fairies believed to live beneath a rock in St Fillans, Perthshire, has cost him £15,000.
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The Planning Inspectorate has no specific guidelines on fairies but a spokesman said: “Planning guidance states that local customs and beliefs must be taken into account when a developer applies for planning permission.” Mr Salter said: “We had to redesign the entire thing from scratch.”
That’s right, the entire up-scale housing development was redesigned to accommodate the “fairies”.
