Thursday, 26 May 2011

If A Tree Burns In Porters Avenue And There's No One Around To See It...

...then maybe Stanley Blake has found a cunning way to get round his ASBO:
Stanley Blake, 42, torched the trees growing by the side of Broad Street, Dagenham, on at least three occasions this year.

The blaze damaged a telegraph pole causing a number of homes to temporarily lose their phone line, according to residents living in the area.

Blake, of Porters Avenue, Dagenham, has been handed an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (Asbo) by the council and police barring him from entering Broad Street and nearby Armstead Walk until April 2013.
It's most odd, because his address is given as Porters Avenue, which as you can see from Googlemaps isn't exactly a treeless wasteland:




And even more to the point, at the top of that road, you may just be able to see a park. It's got....guess what?

Yup, trees. Hundreds of them.

So, it's a bit of a mystery why he'd need to go out of his way - all the way to Broad St - to indulge his apparent arboreal arson complex...
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8 comments:

  1. Gnostic26 May 2011 at 10:49

    Shame there aren't any trees in Downing Street.

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  2. Woman on a Raft26 May 2011 at 10:56

    Why isn't this being charged as arson with reckless endangerment of life? There are houses nearby and they could have caught fire.

    I fail to see why anyone should feel safer merely because an arsonist has been given permission to set fire to something elsewhere, just so long as it isn't what he torched before.

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  3. Captain Haddock26 May 2011 at 10:58

    Perhaps they were special trees ...

    Y'know .. like "The Flame Trees of Thika" ?

    Or maybe he was re-enacting a scene from the Bible & thought he was Abraham ?

    Who, as we all know .. ended up getting his bush burned .. ;)

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  4. Ross26 May 2011 at 11:14

    It looks like a case of not shitting in your own nest.

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  5. Flaming hell26 May 2011 at 16:36

    Perhaps a squirrel shat on him from said trees, and his desire for revenge knows no bounds.

    Burn, bushy, burn!

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  6. Captain Haddock26 May 2011 at 19:48

    "Perhaps a squirrel shat on him from said trees, and his desire for revenge knows no bounds" ...

    What's got a Hazelnut in every bite ?


    Squirrel shit ..

    Maybe old Stan the Man has a nut allergy .. they're all the rage y'know .. allergies & intolerancies ..

    Funny how none of 'em are allergic to, or intolerant of compensayshun, though .. eh ?

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  7. Mjolinir26 May 2011 at 21:22

    Considering the reaction of some Councils to falling conkers/leaves &c, I'm surprised the Elfin-safe-Tea squad hasn't burnt down the rest of the trees - "To ensure he doesn't do it again"

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  8. JuliaM27 May 2011 at 06:47

    "Why isn't this being charged as arson with reckless endangerment of life?"

    I'm guessing laziness...

    "Considering the reaction of some Councils to falling conkers/leaves &c, I'm surprised the Elfin-safe-Tea squad hasn't burnt down the rest of the trees - "To ensure he doesn't do it again""

    Heh!

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