My dear friends, Alex and Sheila, are a very popular couple in the village of Ottershaw, they have a lovely bungalow with an immaculate garden overlooking the local park.
One day my wife, Ann and I popped in for a cup of tea, and Sheila talked about a problem with the lawn.
She told us how Alex had sorted it out.
A large tree in the park was casting shade over part of their garden; this was causing some of the lawn to be less than perfect.
Alex, she said, decided he would prune some of the offending branches to give the lawn time to recover.
Laughing, she said “You know what he is like, he even cut the branches into small logs and put them around the tree”.
Alex then added, “When I cut the branches off, the security light on the scout hut behind the tree now shone straight into our bedroom”.
“So I removed one of the lamps from the light”.
A week later, my wife Ann, again, called round for a cup of tea and an excited Sheila showed her a letter they had received from the Ottershaw Parks Committee Chairman.
The letter read as follows;
‘Last week our park was the scene of some depraved activity, a security light was removed so that members of some cult could carry out their evil rituals, a tree was vandalized and parts of the tree were formed in some sort of altar..
Fortunately, there was a camera as part of the security light and I enclose a photo of the person removing the light.
Although the photo is blurred someone may be able to recognize the man involved.
This follows the accident last week; When Mr. Thomas, the volunteer park warden, broke a leg after falling from the roof of the toilet block.
There had been some activity in the car park, including drunken behavior and some thing called dogging—apparently this does not involve animals.
Mr Thomas had taken a position on the roof of the toilet block, to better see and to photograph the activity of the group of people in some parked cars.
Mr. Thomas, a heavily built man, lost his balance and fell onto the roof of one of these cars.
He broke his hip and was unable to get down from the roof of the car.
The car was so damaged, that the doors could not be opened, this also caused the car alarm to sound and all the airbags inside to activate.
The fire brigade and ambulance were called and rescued Mr Thomas and the four-trapped occupants of the car.
They and Mr. Thomas were taken to St Peter’s hospital, all suffering from severe shock
Alex and Sheila soon realized the letter was a spoof that some rotter had sent them.
Madeinchertsey 