6000 Trees Chopped Due to Dogging
As many as 6,000 trees have been axed in a forest near a British town to prevent couples from having sex there, a media report said.
The trees were hacked at the 12-hectare site on the outskirts of Darwen, Lancashire, after a “health and safety survey”, Daily Express reported Tuesday.
Officials say the forest that runs for kilometres along the busy A666 was cleared as some of the trees, planted after the Second World War, were in danger of falling.
Police and councillors have, however, confirmed another reason was to discourage strangers from the known “dogging” area.
Dogging is a term for people having sex with strangers in public places, or watching others have sex, often in woods or country lay-bys.
The felling of 6,000 trees to try to stop couples having sex there has prompted an angry backlash.
“It’s awful that a public green space, an asset to the local community, has been destroyed mindlessly. If the law was enforced properly then there would be no need to chop down these trees,” Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, was quoted as saying.
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The thing with dogging is it has become very popular with the sexually liberated in the UK and as such lopping down 6000 trees won’t really put an end to it as the nature of dogging is its done from a car and thus all they will do is more somewhere else. Which means it’s not solving the problem merely moving it on until the next town also starts cutting down trees.
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