Man ordered to take down fence so thieves won’t get hurt
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Bill Malcolm has been ordered to take down a three foot tall barbed wire fence erected to keep out thieves by his city council in Worcestershire England.
The Bromsgrove district council claimed the waist-high fence was a health and safety violation.
Thieves have stolen tools and vegetables three times over the past four months alone.
‘The council said they were unhappy about the precautions I had made but my response was to tell them that only someone climbing over on to my allotment could possibly hurt themselves.
‘They shouldn’t be trespassing in the first place but the council apologised and said they didn’t want to be sued by a wounded thief.
‘I told them to let the thief sue me so at least that way I would know who was breaking into my allotment but everything I said fell on deaf ears. It seems as though they are so wrapped up in red tape, they are unable to help me.’
Like many of his neighbors he is growing potatoes, onions, beetroot and asparagus to help make ends meet.
‘The fence was just a single strand and ringing my property. It was only 3ft high – it wasn’t as though I’d dug a moat filled with piranha fish and erected 6ft iron railings.
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Carbon neutral pledge:
In America we don’t bother with fences… we just shoot the trespassers.
When do we start taking the politicians out to the shed and tar and feather them? This guy should do it now.
This gentlemen should sue the city when he gets robbed and keep all documentation. If he sues for enough he won’t have to worry about making ends meet.