Laws on excrement and criminal damage should be applied equally

It is a truism that the law is an ass.

Pity the poor German national, clearly disturbed, who recently received a one-year sentence for storing excrement in his apartment somewhere in Cork city.

This case made me think of the Alp-sized mountains of excrement, of the bull and horse variety, trotted out at the banking inquiry by the avalanche of sweet smelling but foul bankers and politicians, who fiscally defecated on a whole country over several years.