Olivia Harrison Wins Razor Fencing Duel
Saturday 11th February 2012
Olivia Harrison
Despite objections from neighbors around George Harrison’s 38 acre Oxfordshire estate, widow Olivia Harrison plans to replace a razor-wire fence. Permission was granted by South Oxfordshire District Council to replace the eight foot high fence to maintain security.
The fence had been installed in 1999 after a 33 year old schizophrenic man broke into the home and stabbed George seven times. Olivia hit the attacker in the head with a fire poker and table lamp. George died of cancer just two years later. Olivia Harrison put in an application to the town asking to replace the 10 year old rotting fence. The town was worried the fence was un-neighborly and detrimental to the town’s character. Letters to the town authorities said the fence made it look like the perimeter to a German prisoner of war camp. Neighbors also argued that the fence is “unnecessary and inappropriate”.
One neighbor, actor Rodney Bewes, told the press that the fence injured his cat named Maurice. (Hmm maybe it was a cat burglar on the prowl). The 70 year old actor, who starred in the sixties comedy “The Likely Lads”, says the fence is responsible for almost killing his cat and cost him thousands at the vet. Bewes told the BBC, “Is the razor wire necessary? Our cat has been caught three times, once severing an artery, and we know of three other cats which have been injured.” He argues the fence is ineffective for human intruders since they could easily more the razor wire from the wooden fence and enter under the razor wire. He says his biggest sadness is coming home and seeing razor wire and all it stands for in the world. His wife added, “Lots of people have nice houses around here and none of us wants to be burgled, but we don’t all go and put razor wire up. I think it’s wrong, it looks like a war zone.”
Despite losing the fencing duel, civic leaders hope to get Mrs. Harrison to scale down the fence. (I think they mean make it smaller, and they aren’t suggesting she scale down the side of a razor fence.)
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Perhaps the neighbors would feel a bit differently if they had been through what Olivia Harrison has perhaps a bit more charitable
and kind.