Dumper damned?
Sometime late last Thursday night, or early Friday morning, some person illegally dumped two cartons of household trash alongside the receptacle provided for users of Ahipara's Korora Park. One or two of our numerous wandering dogs had obviously enjoyed the scrapings from the pet food cans and packets among the scattered detritus.
Some of us do bit of tidying in the park, particularly around the children's playground, looking out for broken bottles etc, and I began raking the stuff back into the cartons. Then, lo! Before me, inscribed boldly in black felt pen upon the closure flap of one of the cartons, were these words from Romans 13.
I quote, from the cardboard flap: "1. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
"2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."
