A woman came home from a shopping trip to find her entire patio had been dug up. Laurie Penny had only been out for a few hours, but when she got home her patio was missing and her furniture had been left in a neat stack.
Laurie noticed that scaffolding had been set up to get onto her patio, and guessed the work had been done professionally rather than being the hand of slab thieves. "Thieves don’t generally tidy up afterwards. Or stack the furniture so neatly," she said.
Laurie tweeted her local council in Islington, reports MyLondon: "This is awkward, but yesterday, I had a patio that I quite liked. This morning I popped out to the shops for a couple of hours, and now it’s…well, um, it’s gone. I know you’re busy, but could you tell me who took my patio, and perhaps also why?"
