Examples+of+petitions+-+thanks+leah!

Well, as i was doing my legal HW i drifted off onto the VLRC website and after getting off topic (as you do when ur surfing the internet) i found some funny petitions that people have signed and so i thought i would share them with all of you... :)

Adrian Wood petitioned the government to invest in the development, and subsequent production, of mechanised walking tanks for the entire country. Tthe tanks could be used to "blast them [terrorists] apart with plasma dischargers," he explains. Unfortunately for Adrian, and us all, his petition was rejected on the grounds that it had no relevance to government policy.

Josephine Martin petitioned for the use of the Caps Lock key to be made illegal. Although she was trying to rectify the very serious problem of "people having to spend so much time rewriting emails after typing them in capital letters", Josephine's petition was dismissed by the British government in 2007.

Graham Smith petitioned for a project to clone and breed extinct species. Graham wanted to use the experiment as a means of ensuring that humanity was not wiped out, in a way similar to the fate of the dinosaurs. Unfortunately for Jurassic Park fans Graham's idea was deemed "outside the powers of the government."

Mr Benson, representing the Gingers for Justice lobby group, produced a petition allowing only ginger people to live in the United Kingdom. He felt that ginger people had been "forced into hiding" and needed to be liberated. Unsurprisingly, his mission was unsuccessful. ==** Chocolate lover, Ruth Gertig, wrote to Downing Street petitioning for the government to lobby the Cadbury organisation to manufacture a giant 'crème egg'. She made a very valid point: the majority of the country wished that a 'crème egg' Easter egg actually came with the famous cream filling. For some reason, the government thought that the time of civil servants could be better served elsewhere. LOL (Lots Of Love)** ==