THE LAW-RIDDEN GERMAN.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10239, 31 August 1909, Page 6

THE LAW-RIDDEN GERMAN.

Police fines to the amount of £500,000 are annually inflicted in Germany. To explain how this large sum is accumulated, a Munich humorous journal enumerates the misdemeanors committed in a single clay by a respectable tradesman, costing him £6 and a week's imprisonment.

On rising in the morning he opens the window. The window is violently thrown back by the wind, breaking the glass, which falls into the strct. Two shillings fine.

While at breakfast he. fills in the necessary forms to report to the police that he had engaged a maidservant a woelc previously. For not having reported her within the specified time of three days, five shillings fine. On his way to business he runs after a tramway car. For jinn ping on to the ear while in motion, five shillings. His goods are so effectively displayed in his shop windows that an obstruction is caused by the crowd in the street, ten shillings fine. 'His window dresser had displayed some articles in sttch a manner that the merchant's Christian name on the signboard was hidden, live shillings fine.

At 110011 he returns home by railway and loses his season ticket, six shillings fine. He is awakened from an after-dinner nap by the Government inspector of the old-age- pension and insurance department, to whom he has to produce the insurance card of his servant. He lias affixed all the adhesive stamps correctly, but has forgotten to cancel them, ten shillings fine.

Then he receives a visit from a constable, who informs him that his child was vaccinated two days after the regulation time, os fine. Cycling back to business he is stopped by a constable for having forgotten his cycle card, three shillings. He is stoppeel again for riding too fast', three shillings. A third constable stops him for riding through a street not open to cyclists, three shillings. A fourth stops him for not sounding his bell properly, three shillings. A fifth, because lie had 110 brake, three shillings. _ A sixth, for having removed his feet 'from the pedals, three shillings. By a. seventh constable he is stopped for not holding the handlebars, three shillings. He leturns home from, business in the twilight, and is reported for having -no light, three Shillings. After supper he plays piquet with his ,wife, using cards which do not bear the imperial duty stamp, thirty shillings fine., Having omitted to appear at the drill of the fire brigade—ten shillings—he .retires to bed tired out, and forgets to draw the blind of his .bedroom window (one week's imprisonment).