AAARRGGG! Shiver me timbers! No Jolly Roger?
A family who wanted to fly a Jolly Roger pirate flag at their house for their son's birthday party have been told they need planning permission. Richard Smith and Sharon Cooper from Stone in Staffordshire have postponed Morgan's sixth birthday while they await the outcome of their application. Permission is required to fly anything other than national flags, a Stafford Borough Council spokesman said.
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This is a municipality in the People's Republic of Great Britain, where I think you need permission from the government to draw a deep breath. We associate laws like this with private governments, but in Britain this is the way municipalities operate. Sometimes we don't know how good we have it here...
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