i dont like negative ninnies and i wouldnt normally be bummer posting but the council might just pay the fine, with our money.  we got fined 30,000 for trimming the overgrown over hanging branches off some spooky halloween trees that belong to us and which were stopping us getting commercial vehicles up and down a country lane thats part of a property we use for busy-ness. the twatty neighbour was an ex councillor and a notorious pedo who spends 6 months a year on his boat sailing around thailand and the other 6 months complaining, grassing and spying on us - he created the problem. apparently some old timey king had been up the lane (which we fully own but the neighbour has access to use to get to hid house on the lane) one day, doing king shit and hed seen the spooky halloween trees and commented on liking them (they have scary tree faces) so the council had a preservation order on them, we discovered. but we need to get trucks up and down the lane safely and so in the end i got sick of it all and took a cherry picker, a chainsaw and some guys and just did it. trimmed them. the pedo and his sons were running around us filming until i lost my rag and they ran away but in the end it cost 30gs in fines. well worth it, but you know, apparently employing a lot of local people isnt whats important here its having very, very long dangly tree branches that imperil the safety of drivers, that is what the council is there to support. dangly branches.
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