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Article: Fined for dropping a sweet.
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- Pontefract & Castleford Express (Castleford, England)
- Article date:
- July 13, 2006
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SWEET toothed tot Alfie McKinlay landed his dad in a sticky situation when he was given an on-the-spot fine for dropping a sweet on the floor.
The two-year-old dropped the gummy treat in Pontefract's Market Place last week and his dad Craig was handed an instant [pounds sterling]50 fine by council patrollers who spotted the offending confectionery.
Outraged Craig, of Pinewood Place in Knottingley, said he was tying his shoelace at the time of the incident and didn't see the toddler drop the sweet.
He said: "It's ridiculous. How can they expect a two-year-old to be able to put litter in the bin? And it was a sweet, not litter - it wouldn't have ...