The world’s greatest website — Fark.com — has gotten wind of NC DOT deciding that citizen input on traffic questions is a violation of state licensing laws.
Let’s follow along with some of the comments. Don’t forget to point and laugh in the general direction of NC DOT’s Kevin Lacy:
You can’t practice engineering without a license? What the fark does that mean!? You can’t do math without a license?
This is North Carolina. He might as well have been practicing witchcraft.
So basically they’re after this guy because his report looked too good? Too professional? It sounds like those teachers who demand, if you made 100% on the test, “you must have been cheating”.
I believe the real reason for all this: they want to force out which “traitor” engineer created this report, so they can blacklist him somewhere for city projects.
Chalk up another victory for the “the government is there to help” crowd.
I have it under great authority, it is illegal to write in complete sentences, or “author-quality” work, in SC, unless you are a licensed Writer. Reason being, if the average person sees you writing in proper grammar, they would assume you are a professional writer–and that would be fraud.
Guvmint. The gift that keeps on giving. And taking.
