Fiddling With Castles On The Green

Hey Silverhorner's ! Welcome  to the mountain...where we don't have a castle....and if the authorities in London England get their way, neither will farmer Robert Fidler. It seems Mr Fidler was...um...fiddling around with the English building permit laws and built himself an illegal castle. I thought everyone in England lived in castles, so this comes as a bit of a surprise to me.

Apparently you can build a castle if you have a building permit and if you don't build it on a green belt! Mr. Fidler built his Tudor style castle with the works, turrets, ramparts and even cannons, but he did it secretly by hiding the construction behind bales of hay.....and apparently nobody noticed until his cows ate the hay someone noticed that there was a castle standing where once there was only hay.

A big royal no-no to Fidler who has been found guilty of breaking local planning regulations and he is in the tower (or is it moat?)  It seems that he was trying to get around the rules by building and hiding the castle for 4 years after which if nobody complained, he would have been king of the castle. He almost made it, the castle took two years to build and he managed to live in it for about 4 more, but unfortunately, the Judge saw things differently and decided that rule didn't apply if deceptive actions were used, and I suppose hiding a castle behind hay bales was considered deception at it's best.

So Mr. Fidler is now appealing the order to dismantle his castle, but it doesn't look good, after all, it's England, they take castles quite seriously over there, and they don't take kindly to Fidlers fiddling with secret castles on the green!

What do you think, should Mr Fidler have to dismantle his castle? Or should he man the ramparts, load the cannon and take a stand for rogue castle builders everywhere?

Reminds me of an outhouse we built without a building permit here on the mountain a few years back, we hid it behind rolls of toilet paper....it didn't stay hidden too long...but no matter, by the time the authorities showed up it was full.....