"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-03-27 20:11:57 +0000, "Christina Websell"
said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2010-03-27 17:29:06 +0000, "Christina Websell"
said:


"Stu Suds" wrote in message
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Bigal;881413 Wrote:
... or walk on to some common land and collect sheep manure

Bigal

Is that allowed?

Yes, of course it is. Who will stop you? The sheep manure police??
g
If there were any sheep manure police my grandfather would have been in
prison.
Tina

But he lived in more sensible times. I am telling you the sober truth
when I say that a Devon woman got into some kind of trouble for allowing
her dog to take home a stick it had picked up in some privately owned
woodland. Honestly.

This is stupid.
However if you go out into the countryside to pick up sheep muck or a
cow
pat to make liquid manure it's unlikely you''ll get arrested. -
Unless.. there are manure police watching for this very thing, if so you
are
in real trouble.

What the above example is saying - and I agree it's stupid - is that you
can take nothing from private land without the owner's permission. How
does the would-be dung gatherer know the land owner doesn't want to keep
that dung for his own composting/fertilising use?
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They don't, but unless the farmer is able to count every little sheep pellet
or cow pat passed by a flock of 200 sheep/60 cows or so on a daily basis,
and notice there's a few missing, they'll never know, will they? ;-)
Tina