Far better to adopt the French attitude,and ignore the whole stupid,ridiculous,time-wasting,petty beaurocratic,irritating nonsense !! What are they going to do, put you in prison??

Sadly our authorities are not French and the answer is yes - they will put you in prison if you rufuse to obey the law.

http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=66496&c=1