Natural minefield?

[paigetheoracle]

Terrified that people will break in? Fed up with neighbourhood kids climbing into your garden? Surrounded by wasteland?

- then you need natures minefield!

 

Collect the seeds or fruit of spiky, thorny or barbed plants and bury them in the surrounding area. If you can't get in to do, toss them into the said area and hope nature will take its course.

 

Where I live is an old social club that has recently been boarded up and left to decay but local kids frequent the area and recently broke in. The police said that they feared next time it happened the kids would torch the place. Luckily winter is setting in, so the weather may keep them out till the Spring. I can't watch it forever, anymore than any of my neighbours, so natural defences in the form of plant barbed wire were called for and I hope they work and come up in time (Blackberry brambles, wild rose hips, Hawthorn fruits, etc).

 

Legally nobody can really say anything as it's natures work, whereas we get questions of the kids lawful rights otherwise - this way what comebacks can there be as there's no guarrantee any of this will work anyway (but it might!).

 

Has anybody else thought of equally devious methods of protecting their property, that is politically correct or heard of others coming up with equally ingenious ways of dealing with problems, not necessarily in this area?:)

[Turtle]

Good thinkin' Lincoln! I have plenty of politically incorrect methods.:hihi: ;) Protected or not, if any kids get hurt there the owner may be sued for having what they call an "attractive nuisance". Protect yourself with at the least some "No Trespassing" signs. Fencing is another option to include with the signs if you can afford it.:)