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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 27 MARCH 2022 OPINION 3 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 5 FEBRUARY 2023 Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications Pietà parking problem REFERENCE to Triq id-Duluri in Pi- età, where every day we the residents have to go through the trouble to call the Ħamrun police station just to use our cars, as either we are blocked by double-parked cars or have our garages blocked. It is always with the same vehicle, who are either police officers them- selves training at a nearby ground, or people well known who work with the Pietà local council. No wonder the authorities take no action and the police prefer to act as telephone operators rather than is- suing fines; although the law clearly states that one cannot block other people's access. The funniest part is when the com- munity police ask these drivers to move their cars and once they leave you see the same cars wrongly parked again. Various correspondence sent to the police, local council, LESA and even the minister responsible but to no avail. There is really nowhere else to ad- dress this issue as it is evident that no one seems to care. Robert Azzopardi Pietà Sweet and tender... hunter? ONE beautiful afternoon, at the end of January, I walked as I do very regularly along the coast. I was blinded by the tender attention you hunters paid to nature on this pretty little island: to the barbecue of your fluorescent-orange pigeon, finding on the same path on an area of 50sq.m so much delicate atten- tion for nature, with all your pellets strewn, as the great shrubs and their songbirds make the days all the more beautiful. The day will come when at these same paths, you will face the gaze of a child, your grandson, granddaughter, who will ask you – father, grandfather, mother, grandmother – "Why do I only have one eye in the middle of my forehead, and you have two?" You will whisper, looking at their one eye, de- fending yourself: "It's not my fault, it's the fault of the elders." But you will pass for an idiot and you will not be able to wash your hands off your guilty. The lampuki in the sea couldn't tell the difference between a food pellet and a lead pellet. Or the pretty goats taken daily to the meadows to be grazed on the grass, to make a delicious cheese contaminated with lead pellet. Or that delicate, juicy pigeon supreme that pecked at the ground, infested with lead pellet. After you go tell me, an arrogant French national – "go back to your country" – I will say, "Yes, if you want." When all the fish will be intoxicated, the meat intoxicated, the vegetables intoxicated, the milk intoxicated... you will only have one eye left to cry, and tourists will no longer come to spend their money. Gwenael Cherre Qala