"Gregoire Kretz" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:

These people will no doubt now be bad mouthing you left right and centre
throughout the neighborhood for your justifiable reaction to what they
will
be saying was their attempt to do an act of kindness for a neighbour.
This
will be an obvious lie but these people will be prepared to justify their
action as being of benefit to you. They don't care about your hurt, just
getting their own way.

Sorry, but aren't you a bit quick?

I don't believe so. Perhaps you didn't read all of Robert's posts
carefully. He helped his neighbours remove a dead tree stump where a Tawny
owl sometimes sat. They repaid this neighbourl act on his by waiting till
he is away and then, without even a "by your leave" they did things to his
garden that he did not want done and which have clearly caused him distress.

Anyone with any knowledge about different styles of gardening, or about
ecological issues or plain good manners should have known that this is not
the way to act to maintain good neighbours.

This sort of reasoning on other
people's behalf (and I mean both Robert and his neigbours here) can very
quickly escalate to war since whatever a person does, even if in good
faith, will be interpreted as a further aggression.

I agree, it can, but these people have acted in a way which is simply
unforgivable. And (if UK law is anything like our local law and I believe
it is even more stringent given the Animal Libber's actions with regard to
various UK animal experiments) could result in civil (or perhaps even
criminal) action being taken against them.

They trespassed, they took action causing real damage (and perhaps long
lasting damage if long action herbicides have been used) to Robert's
property. They cannot claim to being unaware of where the boundaries of the
properties were and even if they did, ignorance is not a defence at law.
Their action was willful, premeditated and most definitely deliberate and
they then tried to justify it by blaming Robert for his own personal
preference for a particular type of garden. I would not trust these
neighbours to either stay on their own side of the fence or not to cause
more damage.