Saving the planet, for yourself

[classic33]

I suspect that if you added up all the bits members have admitted to purloining it might even surpass the the amount of the French couples haul .

I took/removed with the authority of the person to whom the bank belonged. No purloining involved.

 

[Drago]

I'm really keen to know what they wanted it for.

Building, patios, etc. The rate at which it is being half inches was getting excessive, vastly outstripping the rate at which nature was replacing it. The Sardinian authorities tried the softly softly approach but people took the wee wee, so they've had no choice but to crack down severely. It's been massively publicised - it was on the news here a few months ago - so they've got no excuse.

They took a chance and got caught, so I've no sympathy with them paying for the crime. If they think saving 50 quid on buying sand from a legitimate source is worth the risk of a few years in the chokey then that's their problem.

 

[swee'pea99]

Six years. Sometimes life is a beach.






IGMC

 

[Drago]

The 6 years will just drift wood by.

 

[classic33]

Building, patios, etc. The rate at which it is being half inches was getting excessive, vastly outstripping the rate at which nature was replacing it. The Sardinian authorities tried the softly softly approach but people took the wee wee, so they've had no choice but to crack down severely. It's been massively publicised - it was on the news here a few months ago - so they've got no excuse.

They took a chance and got caught, so I've no sympathy with them paying for the crime. If they think saving 50 quid on buying sand from a legitimate source is worth the risk of a few years in the chokey then that's their problem.

Why were they taking it away in bottles?

 

[Drago]

Perhaps they'd run out of mugs?

Either way, the rules against taking any is extremely well publicised, as are the harsh penalties for doing so.

 

[slowmotion]

Why were they taking it away in bottles?

It's more discreet than rocking up amongst the sunbeds on a JCB.

 

[classic33]

It's more discreet than rocking up amongst the sunbeds on a JCB.

Two grown adults filling bottles with sand wouldn't stand out?

 

[midlife]

I'm really keen to know what they wanted it for.

Flogging on ebay most likely....

 

[slowmotion]

Two grown adults filling bottles with sand wouldn't stand out?

Sunloungers tend not to be populated by Inspector Clouseau clones

 

[snorri]

I bought home a piece of lava from the volcano in Hawaii last year, a piece from when it erupted in 1973, not when it erupted last year.

I have a few trophies from Highland hill tops but never labelled them so have no idea from which hill they came.
CarlP reminds me of the piece of hot lava I picked up in Iceland, but it had cooled long before I got home.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Just out of interest,have any of you brought a palm tree back home from sunnier climes?

 

[classic33]

Just out of interest,have any of you brought a palm tree back home from sunnier climes?

Import of non native species without the proper paperwork/documentation could lead to ten twenty-five years inside.

 

[slowmotion]

Just out of interest,have any of you brought a palm tree back home from sunnier climes?

No, but we brought a durian fruit back from Thailand once. There were a lot of unhappy commuters in our Tube carriage on the way back from Heathrow to Hammersmith. (They smell "interesting".)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-does-the-durian-fruit-smell-so-terrible-149205532/

 

[Electric_Andy]

On it's own it might not be noticeable, but there has to be a deterrent. Otherwise you'd eventually get people nicking all sorts from moors and beaches and selling it, or using it for building and landscaping. 6 years in jail is too much though, I would have thought £2k fine would have sufficed.