UK animal welfare laws gone insane?

[Maurice]

sometimes you can carry things too far:

Pet shop owner fined £1,000 and told to wear an electronic tag... for selling a GOLDFISH to a boy aged 14

[Michel]

I like this...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar ... Brand.html

[monty]

stupidity at one of it highest orders right there

[ModernKiwi]

Ahh, there is a reason why the Daily Mail is also known as the Daily Fail. Wake me up if someone else reports it too...

[Peter]

Strange guys those Brits (copyright Obelix)

@Michel: I would like another view of that second picture

[Paul]

The oddity of this is that in the UK (I use this term loosely) the EU laws are pressed a bit harder than in the rest of the EU, because they are new and everyone is trying to get to grips with them. For example, if I was to sell a gold fish to a 14 year old in germany I could be taken to court under contract law, the difference being that here in germany the law is longer in use and therefore "ignored". The welfare of the goldfish,in this country, a sentient being I remind you all, would on the other hand be completely ignored.