What happens if you are sitting at lunch and notice a dead canna lily languishing in a garden? Chances are good that you’d be threatened with prosecution. What happens if you are an accused al-Qaeda sleeper agent? Chances are you’d be set free.
From the Telegraph U.K.
Mother-of-two threatened with prosecution for picking dead flower
A mother-of-two, Angie Summers, was threatened with prosecution for theft and criminal damage after pulling up a dead flower from a council border in Devizes, Wiltshire.
Mrs Summers, 43, was on her lunchbreak in a public square when she uprooted the withered canna lily.
She said the 18-inch-high flower was dead and removed it because it was spoiling the look of the display.
However, 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. Continue Reading →

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