Cop takes flowers off distraught girls

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A POLICE officer upset two schoolgirls by confiscating roadside daffodils they had just picked for their gran on Mother’s Day.

David Taylor, 31, was on his way to visit his mum when his daughters asked if they could pick flowers for her.

But Rosemary, 10, and Emily, five, were devastated when the officer arrived and ordered them to hand over the 27 stems.

David filmed his confrontation with the female officer as his girls sat in the car and in the clip, the dad-of-two is heard saying: “We were picking flowers for Mother’s Day, not bothering anybody. It’s public land but this police officer decided to take them off my children.”

When the officer claims David has “committed a criminal offence”, he replies: “Have I really? Picking flowers off public land? They’re not endangered, they’re not rare. You’re disgusting, taking flowers off children while they’re picking them. Haven’t you got anything better to do?”

David stopped so his girls could pick the daffodils from a verge near Berryhill Park in Mansfield, Notts, on Sunday. now plus FREE p&p

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The carpenter, of Nottingham, said the girls wanted to give the flowers to their gran and take some back to their mum.

David added: “I respect the police and the law but I feel like it could have been dealt a bit better with common sense. It ruined Mother’s Day for the girls.”

It is against the law to pick flowers growing in council parks or on council-maintained verges.

A Notts Police spokesman said: “The officer provided the family with some advice about picking flowers, and the matter was not taken any further.

“A bunch of 27 flowers was taken to a nearby care home.”