Bus firm sues women for car-pooling


Here's another great moment in French socialism. A group of old ladies is being sued because they're car pooling to work. The bus company that operates along the route they take says it's unfair competition.

They might have been congratulated for their "green" efforts in an area of heavy air pollution.

Instead a group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of "an act of unfair and parasitical competition".

The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated.

Two years ago a business tribunal threw out the company's case. It is now pursuing the women in a higher court, claiming that their action has cost it �2m.


Category:  Left-wing Conspiracy
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Two years years of these women not using the bus has cost the company 2 million pounds??

With bus fares like that, it's pretty f-ing obvious why they felt the need to carpool.

Posted by: roger at July 15, 2005 7:01 AM

Very funny, but they're talking about the bus company's legal fees. Makes you wonder how the cleaning ladies can afford a defense - except that with a case like this, is a defense necessary?

Posted by: markm at July 15, 2005 8:10 AM

Woman Cooks Dinner at Home - McDonald's Sues

Posted by: Bruce at July 15, 2005 10:15 AM

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