My mum kept this from a job she used to have in the seventies. It's a bit tatty, but you can see this character has gone a lot of trouble, stenciling the number plate of his neighbour's car, drawing a map of where the bloke parks it and drawing a calendar to show that this road user was still using his car a measly two weeks after his tax disc expired. Despite the obvious diligence behind this document, the anonymous git who sent it to the authorities misspelt the word 'nightly'.
What this bloke expected my mum and her colleagues to actually do is beyond me. Did he think an armed response team would be dispatched to Grove Road to bring the evil tax-evading genius B Schreiner to justice? The scary thing is that this was not that uncommon. My mum tells me that the office in which she worked had a room stacked floor to ceiling of boxes of this sort of crap, from nosey neighbours who probably thought their crappy little notes were genuinely welcomed by the agencies to which they sent them.The world is full of little Nazis like this, who probably think they are doing some sort of civic duty. Yes, B Schreiner's tax disc was out of date. But surely drawing a map and stenciling the number plate is a bit extreme. Deep down the person who sent this must have realised that no-one would give a toss, so he tried to get their attention with high class artistry.
A strange and rather pointless document, but one which scared me enough to share it with you. |
