Big, big, ooops. :-[
With the frost forecast last night I went down to rescue the pumpkins (just as well given as it was all rather white when I walked past thismorning) - in the dark. Well moonlit, but with streetlamps near enough to trash your night vision but not illuminate anything it may as well have been pitch black. As I got to my plot it became clear that there were a couple of people on the plot next door which, like mine, has no gate or real front boundary at present.
There were two of them, one of me; they had good torches, I had two nearly dead ones and my gardening knife with a very distinctive, knife-like "snick" as it locks. I bumbled around slashing at foliage; they rustled about next door and I couldn't hear the conversation apart from one mention of wood. So we sort of had a mexican stand-off, minding our own business - neither party dared do the whole "Who Goes There?!" - and I walked briskly away, arms full of pumpkins.
I got to the car thinking should I call the police - I had to make time to pick up OH from nightschool, it seemed improbable that the plod would turn up to look at any time soon and the behaviour was not very incriminating; there was no shouting or obvious joking and they didn't suddenly go quite and switch their torches off when I turned up, and it is bonfire night approaching. So in the end I didn't...
Walking past this morning there were 2 bits of metal fence, a log, and a half rotten fence panel which had been lying around, sat smouldering slightly in the hollow where next door grubbed out a tree stump. No real damage though, apart from another metal grill lying partly over their cabbages. So are my neighbours completely inept at burning stuff (doubtful) or was it a couple of fairly considerate (ie not trashing the plots) kids who wanted an early bonfire but weren't very good at it?
Most puzzling. But next time I won't hesitate about calling (s'pose I'd best get the local station number in my 'phone then) - I was planning on doing stuff this weekend myself, so I'll see if next door need any help clearing up if they're around.
:-\
it wasn't your fault. Becuase if you had called the police and it was their plot then they would have thought you were a time waster the allotmenteers would have thought you were trying to cause trouble.
You used your judjement and unfortunately they seemed to know what they were doing so that people didn't catch them out. that's not your fault.
i mean it's not like you spotted someone in next door's living room with a torch and stockings over their face lol.
We had ten sheds and the toilet block turned last night... the B****d's even cut out the copper pipes! That's going to help the water bill no end!
Lucky you, Rabbit , with a local[/i number. Ours is Cheltenahm - 18 miles away!!
some complete thingy head tryed to half inch our locks last night.
Some people >:(
Really strange TR. What were they up to? I suppose like you say next time you can alert the Bill but thats about all you can do. I don't think I would've done anything,not in the dark,I'd just want to get outta there.
Last week when at my plot with my kids I heard some banging down the alleyway inbetween the plots. I looked out of the shed and saw my 8 year old looking out of our gate. He was being called "gay boy" ::). So I went out of the gate to see who these ignorant idiots were. Two school boys,probably about 12. They were trying to kick in every gate all the way down the lane. I shouted at them to stop but they stood there and called me everything under the sun including some VERY rude things about parts of my body. I most definately DO NOT have a fat a*se :D. (That was the mildest.) I wished that I'd been quicker because I could've taken their photo and told them the police would be very interested as there has been quite a few break- ins on the allotments. And I don't give a tinkers cuss if you're not supposed to take photos because I can't stand these little gits and would be quite happy to have them worried that the police were about to knock on their doors and haul them up in front of their parents. There I've said it. Anyway I just stood there until they were at the road at the bottom and had to cross over. I suppose at the very least I stopped them doing what they were doing in the first place.
proposed come back
" get used to opening the gates, thats where you will be collecting the bins form in a couple of years when you fail at school!"
> that being said bin men earn a good salary!
or
" .... get used to washing the toilet at macdonnalds as thats where your going to working the rest of your life - if your really lucky!"
Hahaha! I will remember that last one most definately, especially as I detest macdonalds.
I do know someone vaguely who works on the bins. Blimey they don't have to pick em up and carry them on their backs now! Those were the days haha! This bloke I know sings in a band...they're as rubbish as the stuff in the bins and his singing stinks like it. He has managed to put himself through his pilot's licence and flies most weekends so being a bin man can't be all that bad can it...not bad enough for those two little twits anyway...yes macdonalds for them hahahahaha! (evil laugh)
glad i have made you smile :-)