Given the series of strange comments about the Data Protection Act, did
anyone see this from today's Sun
>??DATA LAW MAN ATE MY HAMSTERS
>A data protection officer from the Lancashire Borough of Carnforth
>has further discredited the UK's data law by eating hamsters
>which were intended to be santa's gift to the borough's tiny tots.
>
>Angry mum, Sandra Jones, told our reporter that "he did not get our
>consent to eat our hamster" and it was "not even in its vital
interests".
>Its "disgusting that he takes our hamsters out of the hands of us young
>uns at this time of year".
>
>However evil Eric Jones, 42 stone, employed by the Borough to look
after the data law
>said that he >needed the extra protein to understand the UK's complex
law
> "It's in my legitimate interests so I am on safe ground", he told us.
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