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<blockquote data-quote="Dry Rot" data-source="post: 8213684" data-attributes="member: 4505"><p>I seem to remember mushroom picking has some special niche in our legal history, like 'hook or by crook' where Anglo Saxon peasants had the freedom to collect small quantities of minor timber. There is a family legend that a farming neighbour of the family (also farmers) caught someone collecting mushrooms, took them from them, and stamped them into the ground. His destructive actions were considered a crime by the family probably because he was destroying food that would be perished and useless in a day or so. But I am not sure of the true legal position. Trespass for the pedantic, but theft? I believe there are laws against picking fungi on a commercial scale and that is theft. Can't think why really as the 'mushrooms' are only the fruiting bodies of a fungus that is mostly below ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dry Rot, post: 8213684, member: 4505"] I seem to remember mushroom picking has some special niche in our legal history, like 'hook or by crook' where Anglo Saxon peasants had the freedom to collect small quantities of minor timber. There is a family legend that a farming neighbour of the family (also farmers) caught someone collecting mushrooms, took them from them, and stamped them into the ground. His destructive actions were considered a crime by the family probably because he was destroying food that would be perished and useless in a day or so. But I am not sure of the true legal position. Trespass for the pedantic, but theft? I believe there are laws against picking fungi on a commercial scale and that is theft. Can't think why really as the 'mushrooms' are only the fruiting bodies of a fungus that is mostly below ground. [/QUOTE]
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