"We feel vindicated by this decision."

Via The Register:

In news from New Zealand, the Waitakere City Council decided to go to court after “it failed to get consents to move six houses.” The council "brought the charges after learning it had contracted out and approved the removal of the homes from a flood plain - without ensuring that building consents had been obtained before removal".

So who exactly is it suing? Itself – and it won:

Waitakere District Court duly fined the council and ordered it to pay $780 court costs. It will pay itself the fine, minus the court's 10 per cent cut. It has already stumped up $3,000 for pre-trial "outside legal opinion".

But objectively, this is not quite as crazy as the U.S. Government subsidizing the tobacco industry and then paying (with tax money) for commercials to discourage people from smoking.