Edit: Little Violinist, Big Heart

Item : City gives 13YO girl permit to play for Humane Society fund-raiser at City Park /Bill Buley, Press

Editorial: Rules are rules, and everybody must abide by them. Make an exception and you’re opening the door to anarchy. That’s basically the logic behind any set of laws, including the city of Coeur d’Alene having an ordinance on the books that requires anybody playing music and asking for donations on city property to first receive a free permit from City Hall. Yes, even an 11-year-old, violin-toting girl with a big heart for animals. The letter of the law was being followed on Independence Day when the girl, playing her violin at City Park while being supervised by her mother, was told by a city employee that she was not allowed to do that unless she had a permit. And no, it didn’t matter that she was trying to raise money for the Kootenai Humane Society; the letter of the law says no permit, no play. No exceptions. It seems that too often, common sense is the first casualty when a tiny bit of wiggle room reading between the law’s lines isn’t permitted /Coeur d’Alene Press Editorial Board . More here. (Jerome A. Pollos Coeur d’Alene Press photo)

Question: Can you think of laws that should allow wiggle room?