Where do I start...?

So they’re introducing piste police, speed cameras and breathalysers on the pistes at European ski resorts. Herr Thur, Austrian piste policeman:

“It’s about time this happened. I heard some people joking to me about having radar speed traps on the slopes and numberplates on skiers, but I say why not, it’s nothing less than one expects on the roads, so why not on the slopes as well?”

Nice one, Herr Thur. Well, how about because the mountains are currently one of the few places you can still go to get away from the over–regulated, nanny–state, we–know–better–than–you, little–Hitler–dominated mess that the rest of the Western world has become? I expect that if I leave my snow–board outside a café for too long over lunch, I’ll soon be coming out to find a blasted parking ticket on that as well. They’ve already started to screw up the resorts in the “Land of the Free”, America. Don’t let’s follow them on this one guys…