A woman was left shocked after watching a stranger break into her garden to steal water from her hose during the ban.
The Buckinghamshire resident has now warned others to keep their garden gates locked and their eyes open for brazen thieves after she watched the ordeal unfold during the recent heatwave.
Posting in the community Facebook group for Stokenchurch, a village in South West Buckinghamshire close to High Wycombe, she described seeing the bold man filling up several water containers from her hosepipe.
