Nanny State Finds Pirate Birthday Decorations for Child Offensive, Threatens Dad with Court

A father in Great Britain helped decorate for his daughter’s pirate themed birthday party. He hung the Jolly Roger outside his house, some namby-pamby busybody took offense, and Dad faces legal action for his efforts.

No, really:

David Waterman, 41, is being threatened with court proceedings after a neighbour complained about the skull and crossbones.

In a letter dated 21 April, seven weeks after the flag was unfurled, the official said he had seven days to remove it.

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Mr Waterman, who works at Battersea fire station, said: “I find it ridiculous that the council are fighting me over this.

“It’s a £5 flag, not hurting anyone, and they’re probably spending hundreds of pounds of our cash getting me to take it down. That could be spent on improving the local area — it’s disgraceful.”

I guess this “former trooper with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment” turned firefighter actually let’s his kids play outside, too. That has got the hackles up on these knucklehead neighbors, but Watterman says they are taking their frustration out on the flag.

The bad part about this all isn’t that these neighbors are causing a ruckus. Everyone has bad neighbors. The bad part is that the government is backing them. Can’t have anyone be offended by anything, you know.