Thread by @the_beeguy

2/6..office number - leave a message. Did.
Received call this morning from this office.
Explained situation - illegal hedge cutting, video footage and fact that roads engineer from council had taken a look and confirmed to me that it wasn’t for road safety and was illegal. His..

3/6..immediate response was to start telling me that the council have to ensure that roads are safe. Again I pointed out to him that engineer had confirmed it wasn’t a road safety issue - as he obviously wasn’t listening when I had told him this 10 seconds earlier. He then..

4/6.started to tell me about how vague the Wildlife Act is..I stopped him and told him I know but this wasn’t relevant here. His next move was to tell me it’s actually not in his jurisdiction and he’d give me the number of his colleague - the original ranger we tried to contact..

5/6.on Friday who never answers his phone. (The same guy who took 4 hours to travel from 5 minutes away earlier this summer when illegal tree felling was reported to him & told us not to bother videoing it happening.)
Told him thanks anyway & questioned his attitude to the job..

6/6.he gets paid to do.
So that’s the attitude of the official entity supposed to be protecting nature & wildlife in this country.
Underfunded - of course.
But it’s a fucking can’t do attitude of ducking & diving their responsibility that is so fucking glaringly obvious.
Sad.