Actually, the UK implements this directive through the Sales of Goods Act, which gives a consumer redress against the retailer for up to 6 years if goods do not conform with the sales contract, or last a 'reasonable' length of time.

Because vaccination isn't 100% effective, there are some people for whom vaccination won't help (e.g. people with certain diseases and illnesses that leave them with a compromised immune system), and there is such thing as Herd Immunity

He is hilarious!

And this has been an entirely frivolous and annoying use the act.

The information officer at the council obviously disagrees, he could have denied the request if he had though it was 'lacking any serious purpose or value'. If nothing else it has brought knowledge of citizen's rights under the act to a wider audience

Plus, in the English countryside everyone and their mum has a gun. Like farmers... and farmer's mums

(Yes, yes, we all know that those who are technically knowledgeable enough can get round any ban by using suitable proxies, but only a small subset of people have that required level of knowledge).

Coincidentally, the same small subset that reads Slashdot!

Why not? We already have suicide bombers that are willing to blow themselves to hell for their cause, and it'd probably be a lot easier to get one of them to suddenly hit the gas and drive through the glass into the terminal than it would be to reprogram one of these cars to do it

Yeah, but when you have a human driver you can just get an angry scotsman to drag him out of the vehicle

That article is bullshit. El Salvador doesn't have capital punishment for anything but exceptional crimes, and hasn't since 1983