Careful What You Pick in the Countryside

Rag_793

I pinky promise this is not an April Fools…..

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/picking-blackberries-300-fine-warning-34506302?fbclid=IwdGRleAT76FJwZG9mAWZkaWQWUNOtsdWgD-6ggRM-ggVrll496Pgx1mV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR60GpbJ6p9linfqV5FHMJMG-lT6ABWfCou4SNz6cJmMZV3UyO150t2T3hgQsw_aem_sec4CokyDbTBfzalT7uCWQ

I honestly had to do a double take when I actually saw this 🤦‍♂️ the uk has gone bananas. How are they going to police this I wonder, are they going to stake out every single bramble in the British Isles alongside every single thing that you can wild forage for food…….. I just have no other words 🫪

Rachel_Scope

I see people picking them all the time near me. I'd never think to report them 😂

ChrisR777

I wonder if I should have reported the couple gathering conkers the other night? 🤣

Rag_793

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1146723#Comment_1146723

well you could end up with twelve years hard labour for that 😂😂😂😂

Rag_793

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1146720#Comment_1146720

🤣🤣 it is absolute madness…. Heaven help anyone pick any sloe berries or damsons and make alcohol, they would bring back the death penalty

Rag_793

spot on, what happens if you have brambles in your own garden, would that be considered a grow like cannabis 🤨

kreacher

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1146728#Comment_1146728

flogging offence

66Mustang

It was only since having a dog that I'm now conscious not to pick any berries below about waist height 🤢

Rachel_Scope

That is something I never thought of before @66Mustang. I really hope that people think about that when picking!