Toy guns spark police raid on Wild West fancy dress party

Ladies and Gentlemen, Common Sense has left the building. Why was I not surprised when I read this headline today. It seems that the police cannot go for more than a week without doing something stupid, dangerous or both. On the scale of stupidity this one really is tipping the scales.

Surely the fact the the apparent "gun-toting maniac" was dressed like John Wayne should have been a slight give away that he wasn't about the hold up the local Post Office. Although these days most criminals would be lucky to find a Post Office that was actually open. Given the fact that there were a number of similarly dressed people for the occasion should have sent even more alarm bells ringing.

Well at least this debacle gave the happy couple something to laugh about. Although it is a sad state of affairs when the nations police force becomes the butt of all jokes. However, until common sense returns to the police I am afraid that's how it will be for a long time to come.

I guess one solution would be to have those responsible to for incident to be taken out the back of the police station and shot. I understand that to many this may seem a rather extreme response but it would certainly make the rest of the police buck up their ideas. Unfortunately I think that my idea my fall foul of the European Convention on Human Rights - Pity. I guess this is just another good reason why we should get out of Europe.

Giant horse to become £2m artwork

Now I like to think that I am able to appreciate all types of art but this just takes the biscuit. In an apparent bid to outdo the "Angel of the North" designer Mark Wallinger wants to build a 164ft tall giant white horse. To give you an idea of scale it will be as tall as Nelson's column. Most people cannot erect a 6 ft shed in their own garden without being told to take it down as it is "not in keeping with the local area". Quite how the designer thinks he is going to escape the attention of the local planning office is anyone guess.

Leaving aside the issue of this artworks obscene scale the fact that it will cost over £2 million should raise a few eyebrows; especially in today's economic climate. I am sure that a large proportion of this money will come from the government in some form or another through grants etc. Should the government really be spending its money on such projects when it struggles so helplessly with the economy. Perhaps we can start a poll on here to see how else we could spend £2 million.

Perhaps Mark Wallinger should re-design it as a white elephant, I'm sure this would be far more appropriate.

Where to start!!!

Well cynical people like myself have never had it so easy. With the world in free fall its just far too easy to be cynical about pretty much anything you want. Although I can be pretty cynical about most things I hope to keep this as humurous as possible and not end up as another Victor Meldrew.
I hope that I will be able to add to this blog at least twice a week and would appreciate your feedback. One thing is for sure, that with the current government in power there will be no end of issues for me to vent my cynicism at. So where should I start:
Our current ineffectual government
The banking crisis
Prince Philips latest gaff - lets face it, he is bound to have offended someone this week
the list goes on and on :)