They'll nick anything

**SueEllen** · 3 March 2021, 16:19

The paving slabs don't look in good condition.

They must have been stolen to order to fit an existing garden/drive.

**ladymuck** · 3 March 2021, 16:23

I know Storrington. Most of it is rough as old nails.

It does look like a nick to order of 'aged' slabs.

**northernladuk** · 3 March 2021, 16:56

We get a lot of this over neck of the woods but not to that scale. Isn't unheard of for someone to put a post on the local community facebook site that 4 or 5 slabs have been removed from their path. Same general consensus is they are taken to fit a job, probably to replace a load that got stolen

**Whorty** · 3 March 2021, 17:19

In my old childhood neck of the woods manhole covers are frequently nicked and the metal sold as scrap. Always makes an interesting drive when going back to see my Mom and suddenly there's a gaping hole in the road!!

**d000hg** · 4 March 2021, 10:21

I meant to post this, glad someone else remembered

I planted a small row of laurels on my boundary last spring, against a quiet country road. Maybe 6 2' plants which cost me about £3 each. The next morning, some bugger had pulled them all up.

**SueEllen** · 4 March 2021, 10:37

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

I meant to post this, glad someone else remembered

I planted a small row of laurels on my boundary last spring, against a quiet country road. Maybe 6 2' plants which cost me about £3 each. The next morning, some bugger had pulled them all up.

That's a lot of effort for £3 per plant.

**d000hg** · 4 March 2021, 17:04

Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

That's a lot of effort for £3 per plant.

That's what I thought. I was amazed anyone even noticed they were there.

**Whorty** · 4 March 2021, 17:30

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

That's what I thought. I was amazed anyone even noticed they were there.

They're doing quite well now, look lovely along my fence line

**OwlHoot** · 4 March 2021, 22:09

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

I meant to post this, glad someone else remembered

I planted a small row of laurels on my boundary last spring, against a quiet country road. Maybe 6 2' plants which cost me about £3 each. The next morning, some bugger had pulled them all up.

Just pulled them up, or actually half-inched them?

If they were just pulled up then maybe some rustic type objected to a plant whose leaves are toxic - Just one or two leaves contain enough cyanide to kill a horse!

Ditto privet and yew, and in fact any of this lot : Plants Toxic to Horses

It's a wonder any of the brutes manage to survive!

They'll nick anything