A WOMAN couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw a stranger break into her garden to steal water from her hose – during the heatwave and hosepipe ban.
The Buckinghamshire woman has now taken to social media to warn others to keep their gates “fully locked” and eyes peeled for other brazen thieves.
The woman shared the incriminating photo of the man to a community group on Facebook
In a post on the Stokenchurch Community Group Facebook page, she urged others to be careful after she spotted a man filling up his watering containers in her back yard.
The Buckinghamshire woman shared what appeared to be a CCTV image, showing a man standing in her back garden with four containers at his feet.
The end of her hosepipe can be seen in one of the large containers as it is presumably filled up with water.
The man, dressed in a white t-shirt, dark pants and boots, was looking down at a phone as he waited for the cheeky theft to be complete.
In a warning to other locals, the woman wrote: “Some cheeky b**** came into my garden today and filled up his watering containers, caught on camera, make sure your gates are fully locked.
“Won’t be doing it again as tap will now be turned off.”
She continued to say she was “sick” of having to “nail everything down or lock everything up like fort knox”.
It was not known whether the woman had reported the man to police.
The theft comes as parts of the UK have introduced hosepipe bans, which affects millions of Brits.
These came with the heatwave, and its high temperatures, which brought the driest July since 1935 for much of the UK.
However, the weather started to change yesterday, with the Met Office issuing yellow weather warnings for thunderstorms across the country.
Today, millions were warned to start packing and be ready to go as torrential downpours and flash floods put lives at risk.
