Still trying to figure that Plonker…Something about achievements…,weary garden tender…no clue yet…I see when you go to google translate there is no English to American translations…but them I saw this link…ok it’s long but very factual, well factual as far as the British way of thinking is…Life is a learning curve…
Same here. I’ve seen electric fences, in one case just a couple of cms above the earth for one conductor and the second about 10 cms above the first to keep cats out (bastards) and others about waist height but even barbed wire would be VERY problematic in a domestic setting.
Yes, I remember the latter when ah wer a lad, on the wall surrounding the local cricket pitch, for example. Both illegal now, I should imagine, unless accompanied with illuminated warning signs, safety barriers and first-aid boxes fitted to the wall!
When we first moved into our house, it wasn’t long before we had some ‘visitors’ climbing over our garage to get in. They ran away to a neighbouring property when the police came.
I wasn’t entirely happy with that, of course, so added some barbed wire (didn’t have any new-fangled razor wire) in appropriate places.
I didn’t leave it long, though… not when it became apparent that criminals have more rights than home owners. So I reluctantly disposed of it.
Fortunately, we haven’t had any more such trouble since - touch wood.
Not since I bought my double-barrelled shotgun anyway.
(Only joking!)
I remember my Dad did that years ago when we lived in an old house. He cemented broken glass on the outside toilet roof (Dunny to you :-p), because there were reports of a few break-ins. Low and behold, a few weeks later, blood was found up there.