First they banned our firecrackers, then we were told to keep the noise down at summer barbecues and Christmas parties and now bureaucrats have lakeside takeaway sensation Brodburger in their sights.
But, according to Canberra Times readers and respondents to an online poll, the capital's fun police are going too far.
Since the paper reported on Sunday that the National Capital Authority was pressuring the little red caravan with the big tasty burgers to move from its Bowen Park location, readers have rallied to show support for the takeaway business.
''Why do we continue to make life difficult for those who attempt to add colour to our city?'' one letter writer demanded to know.
''Cut Brodburger some slack NCA.''
Nearly 92 per cent of 330 voters in a poll (the poll is continuing, you can vote above right) on this website demanded that authorities back off Brodburger.
An NCA spokesman said this week that the authority had agreed to allow the caravan to stay at Bowen Park for another six months. But the NCA said it wanted to work with Brodburger on a ''strategy for a more permanent solution''.
The spokesman would not say if that meant moving Brodburger to one of the NCA's much-maligned lakeside kiosks.
Brodburger co-owner Joelle Bou-Jaoude said that six months was not enough and that she and her partner Sascha Brodbeck had been amazed by the public show of support, with Canberra burger lovers flocking down to the lake shore to sign a petition to allow Brodburger's red caravan to stay.
For more on this story, see today's Canberra Times.
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