UK Nanny State threatens to jail a woman who uprooted a dead flower

A mother-of-two was threatened with arrest for theft and criminal damage after weeding out a dead flower from a council-owned border.

Angie Summers, 43, was on her lunch break in a public square when she uprooted the withered canna lily.

She said the 18in high flower was dead and removed it because it was spoiling the look of the display.

But a passer-by reported her actions to the town council and Mrs Summers was stunned when a police officer later called at her home.

He threatened to 'put her in the cells' and warned that she could be prosecuted for theft and criminal damage - offences carrying a possible six-month prison term.

Wiltshire police eventually dropped the case and have since admitted that she acted with 'good intentions'.

But Mrs Summer, who has ten-year-old twin daughters Leah and Lacey, blasted police for wasting time and public money.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216017/Police-threaten-mother-cells--pulling-dead-plant-flowerbed.html

Statist insanity continues...
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UK Nanny State threatens to jail a woman who uprooted a dead flower

UK Nanny State threatens to jail a woman who uprooted a dead flower

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