Ewe are joking! Police give paint to residents plagued by stray sheep on housing estate!

Ewe are joking! Police give paint to residents plagued by stray sheep on housing estate!

The particular woolly trespassers are creating misery by eating blooms and leaving their droppings all over the gardens and street.

It’s a ram raid: Police have given residents paint to daub on wandering sheep (file pic)

Residents suffering from straying sheep into their gardens are already given pots of paint to name them.

The unwanted flock are leaving droppings throughout gardens and streets after breaking totally free of nearby fields.

They also leave a trail of destruction while they chomp on flowers and leaves throughout the £300, 000 homes about the Weavers Dene estate inside Helmshore, Lancashire.

The problem can be so bad that police have issued people with pots of paint in order to mark the offenders… if they can catch them.

Myra Molineux said: “We cannot put any plants out the front. They eat everything as well as leave general mess throughout the footpaths and pavement.

“It have been affecting everyone. It was funny and a bit of a novelty at first, but it’s happening frequently.

“It’s not nice for kids going to school. ”.

What Ewe looking at? Sheep have invaded the Weavers Dene estate in Helmshore (file pic)

Susan’s man Steve Molineux added: “I saw them at 3am down the middle of the road, it was like a few or six lads going home after having a Friday night out.

“It’s a delicate situation as it’s cloudy whose sheep they are. ”

Rosemary Johns, 38, said: “They come down the middle of the night and every day there are sheep droppings within the pavement.

“It was funny at first, but when you’re wheeling a pram through it all it’s not a laugh.

“We would just similar to whoever owns the sheep to hold them on their area. ”

Lancashire Police has offered residents with paint and instructed these to paint sheep so that you can identify them and their own owner.