Please can I have my ball back?

[Fragony]

Glad to know we are not the only country where the police is completily useless. Soft on criminals but oh so firm on dissobedience.

[Marcellus]

I seem to remember that under law the man actually does have to give the ball back if asked, but still...arrested? The man should probably just have given the ball back, with a nice big bill for the cost of repairing the greenhouse.

[Mithrandir]

or just put a knife in the ball before returnnig it, saying it was punctured by glass from the greenhouse. And then sue for the costs of repairing & ofcourse for emotional damage

[Duke of Gloucester]

The BBC suggest on a different page that you entitled to keep a ball in such circumstances until the repairs to the greenhouse are completed:

You have to go about 3/4 of the way down the page

I think the police are in a spot of bother here; compensation should pay for a new greenhouse, I predict.

[Marcellus]

The BBC suggest on a different page that you entitled to keep a ball in such circumstances until the repairs to the greenhouse are completed:

You have to go about 3/4 of the way down the page

I think the police are in a spot of bother here; compensation should pay for a new greenhouse, I predict.

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately the article doesn't make clear whether the man has charged his neighbours for the damage yet or not. The only way he could be technically breaking the law is if they paid (or if he hasn't charged them for it) and he still refused to return the ball. Even so, four officers to arrest the man for theft is over the top.

[Oaty]

The police did not know how to respond due to the fact pasing the ball is a pastime that was thought to be in nonexistance. Further investigation shows the neighbors children did not have a console. This evidence has brought about an investigation of child neglect.

[InsaneApache]

LoL