Local Council Meeting Unleashes Doomsday Scenario After Misplaced Semicolon
2026-03-30
Residents arrived at Tuesday night’s council meeting expecting the usual thrilling agenda of hedge height disputes, parking permit resentments, and a 14-minute presentation titled *“Bins: A New Era.”* Instead, by 8:17 p.m., the chamber had accidentally voted to “initiate total civic reset; remove all barriers to ending roads, bylaws, and, where feasible, the sun,” after a semicolon was discovered lurking in the revised motion on pedestrian bollards.