When Bad Laws Kill

[Darat]

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1. Why only considering a bill, I wonder?

Perhaps they are concerned about unintended consequences so want to think it through before rushing into legislation...


(I said that with a straight face, I should take up poker.)

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2. What were the police leadership thinking when they put that rule into place? Anyone in Nigeria in the 80's who has some perspective on this?

I was and I've highlighted the two words in your quote that probably were not involved in the original decision.

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3. This state of play must frustrate doctors to no end.

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Depends on how much they make from taking bribes to ignore or to follow out this directive - and that is from my personal experience - in Nigeria bribery is simply the culture and how everything works.

 

[Eyeron]

Can you imagine a scenario that would risk that?

I can but I wouldn't know how to express it properly.

With the sexual offenders list people are being put on that list for things like public nudity, which have nothing to do with rape or child molestation or statutory rape. So I suspect it might be abused in similar way. But on that I really don't know. But I do feel it is a legitimate concern.

 

[Darth Rotor]

I was and I've highlighted the two words in your quote that probably were not involved in the original decision.

OK, now I am getting somewhere. Police rule cited as contributory cause to doctors being in the spot of getting into trouble for treating first, filling out papers later. "Police leadership" highlighted, I will guess due to its being an oxymoron? Or was there another authority/agency behind this rule?

Depends on how much they make from taking bribes to ignore or to follow out this directive - and that is from my personal experience - in Nigeria bribery is simply the culture and how everything works.

Got it. Baksheesh.

DR

 

[Information Analyst]

Depends on how much they make from taking bribes to ignore or to follow out this directive - and that is from my personal experience - in Nigeria bribery is simply the culture and how everything works.

During the last football World Cup, a Nigerian work colleague mentioned that each member of the national team had been promised a house for every goal they scored. "Isn't that bribery?" I asked. She laughed and said it was the only way to get anything done in Nigeria.

 

[Dave Rogers]

During the last football World Cup, a Nigerian work colleague mentioned that each member of the national team had been promised a house for every goal they scored.

The cost of a house in Nigeria, I suspect, is peanuts compared to what a player in the English Premiership gets.

Dave

 

[fuelair]

So the idea that online ordering to get around state laws would work is clearly wrong. Good to know.

Well. if you have a contact in another state they do send to, you can have the stuff sent to the contact and they can send it to you. Runs up shipping, but doable.

 

[Skeptic Guy]

Several US states have a law similar to this with two minor changes. The hospital simply has to call the police and notify them and it isn't meant to delay treatment at all.

Plaxico Burress learned of this one recently.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Well. if you have a contact in another state they do send to, you can have the stuff sent to the contact and they can send it to you. Runs up shipping, but doable.

Sure because then it is the contact violating the law.