Why would somebody steal a gate? I'm so annoyed, I've just spent 30 minutes chasing seven stubborn sheep out of my garden. For some reason someone has seen fit to steal the rather nice iron gate that separates my garden from the paddock.
You can see the gate in the photograph (taken a couple of years ago - the grass isn't green any more!) It didn't take long for the sheep to find the gap but fortunately I noticed them before they had time to do too much damage. Honestly, why steal a gate? What's up with that? People never fail to surprise me.
Post Script: this morning - it was dark last night so I wasn't able to have a good look around, but this morning I found my gate, halfway down the hill. It's a big heavy gate so maybe it was too heavy to carry far? Or maybe the sheep did it? (!!) Whatever, my gate is back and this time I'm wiring it into place!
There are a lot of scroats around.... One time in my hospital in Sheffield I caught two men stealing an oxygen cylinder
ReplyDeleteGood grief, that's terrible. What the hell for!
DeleteIt's iron... they sell the metal for scrap...
ReplyDeleteBastards!
It worries me more that there are ratbags who knew you had such a gate! I don't like it that they are sneaking around up to no good.
Make sure you lock your doors eh?
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Janet, I found my gate this morning halfway down the hill. The culprits may not have been human, they may have been a team of four-legged woolly bandits working together to gain access to my garden. Whatever. My pretty iron gate is back!
DeleteThe scrap theft is so enormous here scrap yard regulation includes photo ID records of the people selling the scrap to the yard. Sorry state of affairs.
ReplyDeleteHee hee. I'd blame the sheep. We have bad humans around here that steal copper and bronze out of burial plots. There are people around here that also steal flowers off of graves. One lady was found with a whole row of hanging baskets that she'd taken from the graveyard.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a mystery you may never solve. lol
ReplyDeleteAt least you got it back.
Do you have rain there yet? It is getting close here!
I recently tried to buy an old rusty antique gate. The one I really wanted (simple and old) was about €600... I eventually bought a new one for €60. There's good money in old gates, and unfortunately there's always someone who's after good easy money!
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