Comments on: Impressive anecdote of the day (make that ‘week’) https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:51:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: JDE https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1200784 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:51:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1200784 The same thing happened to me, inching a kayak into empty part of Santa Marija Bay, Comino, to pick up my wife and four year old son.

The barely recognisable policeman on station there, having a drink with some guys, made a scene as if I were pulling stunts with a jet-ski.

I had to take my family on board on the jagged rocks at the side, making a deep 3 inch gash in the bottom of my foot in the process. I felt deeply offended because I am sensitive to and respectful of such safety rules.

I would have never have thought, that INCHING really gently, not actually paddling, an unpowered kayak into a bay to be unreasonable. One of the joys of kayaking is beaching somewhere to rest a bit. So much for eco-tourism.

]]> By: Snoopy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1200732 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:29:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1200732 In reply to virgosign.

Wrong judgement call?

Just spot the difference and then post your comment again if you really believe it.

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]]> By: Liberal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1200477 Fri, 16 Aug 2013 06:19:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1200477 In reply to virgosign.

We’re not always correct, but most readers of this blog are not that stupid.

]]> By: virgosign https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1199435 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:49:47 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1199435 So the lifeguard went by the book and saw a ‘plastic dinghy’ (Ta’ Sapienza’s own wods) as a boat in a swimmers zone!
Maybe s/he made a wrong judgement call, but are all the people posting comments here so always correct when they make their own judgement calls?

[Daphne – You cannot be serious.]

]]> By: Not Sandy:P https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1199340 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 21:03:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1199340 In reply to LIXU.

The response is simple. It is perfectly legal to enter a country without documentation if you are seeking asylum.

People can’t get their head around that because they on’t never stand the meaning if asylum and the circumstances that drive people to seek it outside their home country.

As always, ignorance of the law is no defense. Not understanding the law doesn’t make it any less legal.

]]> By: anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1199328 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:59:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1199328 Am I to understand that you have to be a PL voter to qualify as a lifeguard?

]]> By: Welcome to Malta https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1199308 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:49:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1199308 Good thing this life guard was not on duty at 9a.m. on Sunday, 4 August. He would have passed out when a mechanical shovel ventured over the sand and right across the foreshore to the bewilderment of all present.

Some wise guy had decided that that was a particularly fitting moment to give the beach a clean up.

]]> By: Last Post https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1199284 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:35:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1199284 In reply to LIXU.

I know this will be considered off topic, but some days ago I had an argument about the legality or otherwise of the arrival of ‘undocumented’ immigrants. From my point of view the issue was about saving persons in danger of losing their lives.

Anyway, the above anecdote shows what happens when stupid people are empowered to apply or interpret the law. The ‘letter’ of the law becomes paramount over the ‘spirit’ of the law.

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1199230 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 20:10:02 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1199230 In reply to LIXU.

Or a RHIB filled with the Law Commissioner, an assistant police commissioner, the MCST chairman, and several businessmen who might need favours.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/08/impressive-anecdote-of-the-day-make-that-week/#comment-1198877 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:51:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=36542#comment-1198877 Call The Hof. He’ll teach ’em.

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