The TaxPayers are paying for a scheme in Newcastle Upon Tyne which the Council's Environmental Services Team have organised to use a cherry picker crane to strip trees bare of conkers before children can get their hands on them.
They will collect all the conkers and hand them out to local schools for the children, so the children dont hurt themselves or damage property whilst getting the conkers.
Its PC GONE MAD I TELL YA!

What is this Country coming too..
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