Dumped

We've been thinking about putting a gate on the entrance to the orchard/plot/land (name to be agreed) recently but haven't got around to doing it yet. Plus gates don't appear to be cheap things to buy. Today's discovery may speed this up.

Got back home today to find somebody had left their X reg Nissan Silvia in the gateway to the 'orchard'. Not an obvious place to leave a car if it had broken down en route somewhere so we assumed that wasn't the case, and that it was most likely it'd been dumped there last night. The fact it was left unlocked reinforced this.

Thought this would mean us paying for somebody elses wreck to be disposed of. Just incase we phoned the local police to see if it was stolen etc, but they couldn't find the registration on their records. I pointed out that the tax disc was dated 2001! Much to our suprise the police told us they'd send somebody out to look at it soon, and less than 2 hours later (while we were cutting down brambles) they turned up along with a breakdown truck. After taking a note of the chassis number the wreck was dragged onto the truck and taken away! We were amazed, and relieved that it didn't cost us a penny. Maybe it'd been used in some unsolved crime and gave the police the missing lead they needed.....

Whatever the history of the Nissan, we've been impressed by the speed by which the police responded to something we thought they'd not be the slightest bit interested in.

Better get the gate sorted.