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Originally posted by Pete Ashby
This rates along with the local council somewhere in this poor miss directed land of ours that has employed people in cherry pickers to remove Conkers from the tress so they don't fall and hurt people or worst still kids get hold of them and play Conkers 
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I think it is more to prevent the kids climbing the trees or throwing objects into the trees to knock down the conkers.
Several children are seriously injured by falls in the conker season and there are even fatalities.
The oft mentioned Ba Ba Blacksheep 'chestnut' mentioned elsewhere is long exposed as a newspaper invention.