A Worcestershire, England gardener named Bill Malcolm has had his vegetable plot burgled three times in the last four months. The thieves made off with about $600 worth of tools, and also trashed part of his crop for good measure.
Mr. Malcolm subsequently fenced off the area with barbed wire in order to keep the louts out and his property in.
The solution didn't last very long, as he has now been ordered by the Bromsgrove City Council to remove the wire, because they're afraid that the thieves might hurt themselves while breaking into the plot.
"A spokesman for Bromsgrove council said: 'With regard to the barbed wire, when this is identified on site, we are obliged to request its removal or remove it on health and safety grounds.'"
The local police are also of absolutely no help in the matter:
"'These have mainly been from sheds and our advice to allotment holders is not to leave anything of value there.'"
Which kind of defeats the purpose of a shed in the first place, which is to store things too valuable to leave out in the weather, or items attractive to passers-by.
This kind of thinking is unfortunately not an isolated incident in the criminal-coddling paradise that is today's Britain:
"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."
I wonder if the council muckety-mucks bother to lock their offices and homes, if they feel so strongly about protecting the yobs. After all, following their own logic, they shouldn't want anyone interested in taking their personal belongings to be harmed or inconvenienced in any way.
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