On 2009-12-07 12:58:31 +0000, "Bob Hobden" said:

Went down the allotment site yesterday for a few veg for dinner and was
confronted by the site of all the sheds on the site being broken into,
doors or what's left of them flapping in the breeze. To get to the
sheds they had smashed rabbit fences and gates. Luckily with no shed we
only had big footprints in the soft earth were I had already dug as
they walked across our plot.
Luckily I spotted a cache of stuff hidden by the gates and took it home
after advising the Police.
Spent the rest of the day dealing with the Police, a SOCO, putting
notices on all sheds for the Police, and advising as many plotholders
as I could by phone or personally. Still today I've had to go down to
the site again.
Yet the Council can't give me contact details of all the plotholders
because of Data Protection!!!

Oh Bob, how really awful. This isn't the first time either, IIRC. I'm
so sorry to read of this. It's totally beyond me to understand what
brings people to the point of doing this sort of thing but all I can
say is they must live very miserable lives. One can't imagine them
getting very far in life, either. I should tell the Council jobsworth
that you expect them to contact all the allotment holders and that if
they don't, they put the Council at risk of legal action for not taking
steps to protect their tenants' interests.
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Sacha
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