Battleangel

Don’t try to climb any trees in Tony Blair’s Britain would be my advise. As an avid gardener myself, I wouldn’t stand for vandalizing living matter, but on the other hand this seems a bit excessive.

But the afternoon adventure turned into a frightening ordeal for Sam Cannon, Amy Higgins and Katy Smith after they climbed into the 20ft tree – then found themselves hauled into a police station and locked in cells for up to two hours.

Their shoes were removed and mugshots, DNA samples and mouth swabs were taken.

Apparently the area where these kids live had been marked as “anti-social” (one notch below terrorism and every bit as false) which sort of makes it open season on tree-dwelling kids.