Bureaucrats Gone Wild- Las Vegas/Overton Addition

Patrick Coolican must have bi-polar. He is the champion of big government, higher taxes and fewer rights for people. Then he writes a good article about how government bureaucrats, the one's he champions, go out and screw the little guy.
From Coolican's article: They don’t make it easy for those of us who believe in vigorous government, the kind that built the Interstate Highway System, put a man on the moon and invented the Internet.
By “they” I mean our public employees, who we want to believe in but who sometimes leave us shaking our heads.
The most recent example: Quail Hollow Farm in Overton had — or tried to have, anyway — a “farm-to-table” dinner last month. This is when a chef takes vegetables and freshly butchered meats and serves them up right there at the farm to fancy food types — “locavores” — who like their food really fresh. Sounds pretty great, right?
Well, someone at the Southern Nevada Health District saw an ad for the event and decided to get on the case.
The health department called farm owners Laura and Monte Bledsoe and said they’d need a special-use permit because it was a “public” event. They complied, or tried to at least.
The night of the event, the guests arrived at the farm, and so did the food inspector. Here were the issues, according to Laura Bledsoe: Some prepared food packages had no labels; some of the meat was not USDA certified; some food was prepared in advance off-site and not up to proper temperature; vegetables were declared unfit; and there were no receipts for food.
(Um, do you not get the whole farm-to-table thing?)
The Bledsoes asked the inspector if they could make the meal a private event, thereby eliminating the health department’s jurisdiction. A church, for instance, can have a pancake breakfast for its congregants, without health department oversight. And for locavores, this meal was to be something like a religious experience.
Nope.
In the end, the health inspector demanded that bleach be poured on the food, including vegetables, to ensure it was not consumed. Bleach really ruins a meal, I gotta tell you. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/nov/12/farm--table-event-turns-sour-when-inspector-crashe/
First, there is something unbelievable about this story: Food inspectors work at night? Maybe one or 2 but that's probably it. Talking to Clark County workers, they are put on a strict time schedule where they cannot work overtime, so what was this inspector doing in Overton, driving all they way there in a County or Health District car and then driving back? Seems to be a bit unbelievable to me, unless the inspector had authorization from a supervisor to go up there. If the inspector went up there without authorization, did they go up there expecting a little piece of the action/bribe and when they didn't get it, they went ape shit and closed the place down?
If a supervisor did authorize this trip, why? It is a total waste of time and it is inefficient. Driving over 100 miles, taking at least 3 to 4 hours or more for the trip and inspection, was this a good utilization of time? Of course not. Had they stayed in Las Vegas, this same inspector could have inspected 4 or 5 restaurants, roach coaches (mobile restaurants) or the Hispanic men with their food carts that roam around the northeast side of Las Vegas in the evening and night, especially around the Eastern and Bonanza and places north.
Second, what was the purpose of throwing bleach on the food? Ok, you don't want the guest to eat the food but what the family that runs the farm and their workers? How come they couldn't have eaten up their food. This again leads me to believe that the inspector wanted a bribe and when they didn't get one, they got pissed off and destroyed all the food. This what the Mafia did, not what government employees are supposed to do.
So, Coolican, to his credit, gets after the Southern Nevada Health District and their stupidity. I hope someone looks deeper into this because something doesn't seem to be right. Either there was a huge bureaucratic blunder, or a health inspector got pissed when their attempt to get a piece of the action was turned down. Either way, it is another story of bureaucrats gone wild.