"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote ...
after "Bob wrote:

Just come back from the allotments, we have to quit by the end of this
month
so went down to gather up some of the pumpkins etc.
Shouldn't have bothered, the vandals have beaten us to it and any they
couldn't lift and drop to smash or throw around and break have had
canes/bits of wood rammed through them. We had some large Atlantic
Giants
this year but all have been ruined.
They couldn't see half of the "We be little" so we have a few of those
cricket ball sized ones and some "Tonda Pedana" which are green and
therefore difficult to see amongst the leaves.
The only ones I can't see smashed around are the Turks Turbans which
have
all gone so they appear to have been stolen, neatly cut from the plants
too.
Possible two separate groups then.
They have also smashed/pulled up the cabbages and cauliflowers that
were
ready and a lot of the tomatoes.
I haven't seen Sue sob so much since her Father died.
Gardening shouldn't be like this!

Oh, Bob, how truly horrible. I am so very, very sorry to read this. Is
there anything you can do at the new allotment, when and if you get it,
to
prevent this sort of thing? CCTV cameras, electric fencing, barbed wire
electric fencing, lottie holders on patrol every so often? Are the
police
likely to be able to help?

Thanks for your kind words.
I'm on the friends group for the new Park/Allotment site so have been
trying
to get full CCTV cover and there will be a 10ft high fence all round it.
The police? last time I phoned them the girl laughed!

You have been the victim of a crime, ie criminal damage. You should call the
police again, make it clear that you are reporting a crime. They are obliged
to issue a crime No. Don't let them fob you off with an incident No. This
way they have to put it on their crime statistics.

When we had our tools nicked from all 8 sheds on site, the cop had to record
it as 8 separate crimes. That didn't do his figures for the month much good
:-))

And I would make an official complaint about the wpc who laughed at you. A
crime is a crime, even when it's a pumpkin.

Steve