An in-law and very good friend and neighbour, an active smallholder here and generally respectable bloke, has a part-time job as a fairly senior municipal executive official in a small borough or large village on the coast.
For some weeks now he has been struggling to evict a group of travellers occupying some municipal land where they are not welcome. He toyed with the idea of flooding their field, apparently quite easy to arrange as it is very low-lying, but reluctantly dropped the idea to let the law take its interminable course.
The other day when he visited the site for some more disagreeable conversation with the squatters, the private security men hired by another council department to keep further squatters out found his wooden-handled French peasant's clasp knife, seized it and called the police! Old Bill were pretty embarrassed and didn't charge him with anything, but felt obliged to 'impound' the chiv, which he most often used to open bottles of beer.
Now he will have to get another when he next goes to France.
It's health and safety gone completely doolally! If I were he I would have it in for that security firm in a very big way.
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