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Offensive hedge gets the snip
Jordan Day
Ian Ashmeade's hedge in Haddenham before he was forced to re-shape itA keen gardener was stunned when police threatened him with a fine for a public order offence - because his garden hedge was shaped like a phallus.
Haddenham resident Ian Ashmeade first pruned a bush in his garden into a phallic shape in 2002 after noticing the plant was growing into a similar shape naturally.
For years, passers-by and locals have chuckled at the shrub in his garden, in Linden Way, but police received a call from someone who was offended by it.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary warned Mr Ashmeade to reshape the bush or face an £80 fine.
Ian Ashmeade, has since trimmed it back into the shape of a pea shooter after he was crowned ‘world pea-shooting champion’ at the annual pea shooting championships in Witcham this summer.
Police said if he had not had trimmed the bush back, he would have been fined for a public order offence.
Source:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Of ... e-snip.htm
Jordan Day
Ian Ashmeade's hedge in Haddenham before he was forced to re-shape itA keen gardener was stunned when police threatened him with a fine for a public order offence - because his garden hedge was shaped like a phallus.
Haddenham resident Ian Ashmeade first pruned a bush in his garden into a phallic shape in 2002 after noticing the plant was growing into a similar shape naturally.
For years, passers-by and locals have chuckled at the shrub in his garden, in Linden Way, but police received a call from someone who was offended by it.
Cambridgeshire Constabulary warned Mr Ashmeade to reshape the bush or face an £80 fine.
Ian Ashmeade, has since trimmed it back into the shape of a pea shooter after he was crowned ‘world pea-shooting champion’ at the annual pea shooting championships in Witcham this summer.
Police said if he had not had trimmed the bush back, he would have been fined for a public order offence.
Source:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Of ... e-snip.htm