Couldn't make it up.

For the benefit of my mate from Mars, a "99" is an ice-cream cone with a chocolate flake stuck in it - very popular. So the story is that an ice-cream kiosk owner in Bognor Regis has been told by the council that he can't sell 99s because this would breach the terms of his lease.  He can sell ordinary ice-cream cones, but not with a flake in them. This is not perhaps as petty as might first appear, as the council have to have regard to the rights of the other shop and kiosk owners in the town and try and establish a balance between what is sold where.  But what makes this a "couldn't make it up" candidate, is that he is allowed within the terms of his lease to sell chocolate flakes - so he can't sell you a 99, but he can sell you a cone of ice-cream, and then separately sell you a flake, which you can then stick in yourself!