Thread by @RaveofRavendale

Wake up this morning to find a man in my garden, cutting one of our trees down without consent, and then letting the heavy branches fall down and wreck our fence and property

On hold with @gmpolice for nearly an *hour* but they finally tell us they aren’t going to help

Amazing

The guy has come and knocked on our door the day before asking for consent to do it, and I’d say well, come to me with a plan first

So he just took it upon himself to let himself onto our property and do it while we slept

And the police will do *nothing about it*

Not only that, but the tree is a protected tree (oak) so he’s not even allowed to have cut it down in the first place

And I’m just powerless. There’s nothing I can do about it, and Manchester Police won’t do anything. Now there’s just a tree cut down in my garden

Talked to a bunch of lawyers this morning, and they basically all said the same thing: There's nothing you can do.

Apparently I can send a letter to the guy saying "don't do it again" and that's about it.

?????

What the fuck even is this shitty country

One of the lawyers literally laughed at me, and was like "what would you even want from this? You want to claim the tree has value? It will grow back"

So just to make you all aware, it's perfectly fine for you all to go into other people's gardens and just fuck them up

I’m honestly just so done with humanity at this point, I don’t know why I bother being a reasonable person in life, when it’s clearly so much easier to just do awful shit with no consequences