Incredible but true: if you live in Bucharest and want to get married you will – from January 1st next year – first have to prove that you have planted a tree.
So reports the Romanian daily newspaper Adevarul today, which claims that anyone wanting to register a car in the capital will also have to plant a tree.
Like most half-baked Romanian ideas, no mention is made of where exactly the trees (to be bought from the city council, at double the market price we would assume) are to be planted.
Perhaps they can simply be planted willy nilly around the town, who knows?
Chances of this absurd proposal ever becoming law? High. Chances of it being enforced? Nil.
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Actually the problem is to present the bill that proves that you bought the tree. If you plant it or not – well, they assume that once you bought it then you’ll plant it. This is also a very good initiative; it doesen’t matter where you plant the tree as long as Bucharest will have more trees and the Municipality will have more money. After all, God didn’t place His trees in straight lines or on the sides of roads. I’m gonna plant a few trees without getting married if I can buy them from the Municipality.