Some stories are just too stupid to make up:
A gardener who fenced off his allotment with barbed wire after being targeted by thieves has been ordered to take it down – in case intruders scratch themselves.
Bill Malcolm erected the 3ft fence after thieves struck three times in just four months, stealing tools worth around £300 from his shed and ransacking his vegetable patch.
But Bromsgrove district council has ordered the 61-year-old to remove the waist-high fence on health and safety grounds. . .
Sergeant Nick Husbands, of West Mercia Police, said: ‘We can confirm that five thefts from Round Hill allotments have been reported in the past year.
‘These have mainly been from sheds and our advice to allotment holders is not to leave anything of value there.’
Mr Malcolm’s plight comes just weeks after Bristol council angered allotment holders by urging them not to lock their sheds in case burglars damaged them breaking in.
Can today’s UK be described as anything but objectively pro-criminal? The police are unable or unwilling to protect your property, you aren’t allowed to defend your property yourself, and now it seems you aren’t even allowed to erect passive obstacles. Pretty soon you’ll be required to leave your door unlocked.
But, I shouldn’t give the impression that the police is entirely unable to enforce the law. If you sell products using non-metric measures, they’ll be all over you.
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