The very best legal problems from the wonderful world of Reddit

God bless you KK. This was much needs.

Brilliant.

Who gives the advice on this stuff too? I can just see a few people with 2.2’s who graduated 10 years ago “err,,, actually,,,, I think you’ll find that according to the…”

As a former Senior Reddit Moderator who held her venerated position until the ‘Great Purge’ of 2015, you can find more at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice

There was another excellent one where a 16 year old found a rucksack with £3000 in notes and mysterious looking pills in a park in West London. He wondered if he could keep the money, and whether Argos would accept crisp £50 notes when he purchased a X-Box. (It’s since been deleted).

Another memorable post involved a 13 year old boy downloading images of child porn onto his home computer. Computer was seized by the police, his father blamed and subsequently imprisoned. 5 years later, the boy suddenly feels guilty and wants to know how to prove his father’s innocence. (Also deleted)

I also like this one:

https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/4arh5r/my_new_stepmother_might_have_burned_my_dads_house/

Ah, those halcyon days of youth! Where one could climb the hierarchy of internet forums without worrying about internships!

I was wondering if somebody could help me with a serious legal problem.

My neighbour has a dog which would always stray into my garden and do its business on my lawn. Very annoying. My first step was to make sure the fence was secure. I found a hole in it near some bushes far down at the bottom of my garden so I filled that in. It seemed to work for a while but after about a month, I saw the dog in my garden again, just pooing in the same place as it always has. I spend a lot of money on my lawn (fertilisers, weed killers etc.) so I was quite frustrated.

I found the hole and it looked like it had been made by a person. There was no way a dog had done it (the hole was a dog sized gap which looked like it had been cut with a saw). I don’t get on with my neighbour at all, he’s very intimidating and in the past has threatened me (I’m 43/m, he’s about 70ish). Instead of mending the hole, I decided to set a trap. I dug a little hole in the ground and put a wire trap in it which would snare the dog’s foot when it walked in.

I then went on holiday to Spain but didn’t tell anyone about the trap. I felt quite bad about it when I was there so was in quite a rush to get back from the airport. I went down to the bottom of my garden and looked in the bushes. I was quite shocked to see that I hadn’t trapped the dog, but my neighbour instead. Looking at the state of him I think he’d been lying there for quite a while. He doesn’t have any family and as far as I can tell, nobody’s been around to see him in the time since I got back from holiday (a week). What should I do? Tell the police? I’ve got rid of the trap and cleaned up at the bottom of my garden. It’s a pretty unlikely story so do you think anyone will find me out?