You know you're bureaucratic regulations have gone too far...

when NPR starts mocking you. How Many Euros Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb? That's the title of Scott Simon's interview with a priest from Suffolk, England who had to pay £1300 instead of the former £150 to have 6 lightbulbs changed that hang about 40 feet up in this church. He used to hire a guy with a ladder to do it, but since the EU's "Working at Heights Directive" came out, they have to build scaffolding under each lightbulb. When Simon jokingly suggests the parish use candles, the priest replies that he'd than have to comply with the EU directives on heat and fire.