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Giving the green finger: Gardener who carved bush into rude gesture ordered to remove it
Daily Mail [UK] ^
| 7/20/12
| Rick Dewsbury
Posted on 07/21/2012 9:59:16 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
A gardener who carved a giant bush into a hand displaying a rude gesture has been ordered to remove it after being accused of committing a public order offence.
Richard Jackson has displayed the offending topiary, which shows the middle-finger sign, in his garden for the last eight years.
The 53-year-old has now been told by the council to alter it after a neighbour complained, but he has refused to comply.
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TOPICS: Gardening; Local News
KEYWORDS: napl
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To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:01:03 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.)
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
He should tell them to "Talk to the bush!"
...OK, maybe not.
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:01:37 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
How is this offensive it’s a four fingered hand?
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:06:09 PM PDT
by
svcw
(If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
To: svcw
Cartoon characters have feelings too.
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:07:03 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:07:58 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:08:26 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Actually I dislike those squiggly ones more than the hand.
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:12:22 PM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Slings and Arrows
We demand.... a scrubberry!
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:14:02 PM PDT
by
Dosa26
(JURY NULLIFICATION! IT'S THE LAW)
To: Slings and Arrows
What are things coming to when a man can’t trim his bush any way he wants?
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:17:53 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Slings and Arrows
in all mother loving seriosnous an aqaintance reqeuested corpse removal
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:20:58 PM PDT
by
Dosa26
(JURY NULLIFICATION! IT'S THE LAW)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:25:29 PM PDT
by
Vide
To: Slings and Arrows
After 8 years, they tell him to remove it due to “a neighbor’s” complaint?
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:25:57 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
To: Dosa26
Do they have a First Amendment now in UK?
To: RichInOC
>>What are things coming to when a man can’t trim his bush any way he wants?<<
We don’t know if it is his bush. His wife might own it, making it HER bush he trimmed...
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:30:57 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(obozo could bring back literal slavery with chains and still he will get 85+% of the black vote)
To: Slings and Arrows
hahaha...that’s just funny!
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:33:10 PM PDT
by
citizen
(It's no longer Obamacare. It's Robertscare now. He wanted it, he bought it, he owns it.nn)
To: Slings and Arrows
What is our US Supreme Court for? Take it all the way up there, sir, let Supreme Justice John Roberts decide.
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:36:41 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong!)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:36:45 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(History says our end is near.)
To: Revolting cat!
He’s in Britain. Which might not stop John Roberts.
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posted on
07/21/2012 10:44:11 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: hedgetrimmer
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