Lost

I was watching one of these fly-on-the-wall docuementeries tonight. They were following traffic cops. And there was a 13 year old driving. They caught him, which is good. At the end they said he had been banned for a year. Now, can you explain to me how you ban someone who shouldn't even be driving. And in a years time when he is caught again what does he say, well the ban has expired! Sometimes the law is an ass.