to take without owner's permissiveness?

[UmaGourd]

Which is technically theivery.

But it's only blackberries, in the cinemah car park.
Will I be told off?

No. Yum!

EAT THEM :)

I believe the technical term is scrumpying Just make sure you wash them.

then there will be no evidence of wrongdoingness :)

Try not to get juice on your fingers.

You wouldn't want to be caught red-handed.

Veh good, ZarcharyQ.

Is that you, wunk? Are you undercover?

Yabu.

They are brambles.

Where are blackberries ready to eat, and where do people use words like permissiveness and thievery.

1. When they're deep purple/black. Try one

2. MN

I know what a ripe blackberry looks like, but around here they are nowhere near ripe yet.

I've seen eaten quite a few this week.

It's surely to early for brambles isn't it?
I fill up a large tupperware dish when they come out while I'm walking the dog and make a crumble, but it's not till about September up here.
They're wild, anyone can pick them.

Aslong as you dont damage anyones land im pretty sure its legal.

I picked 1.5kg in half an hour last year up a small country lane. I dint like them raw, but in crumbles etc they are yum!!

Just pick higher than dog piss height :)

Blackberries are plentiful here on the edge of London.

Picking blackberries from wild bushes may not be illegal and it's certainly not theivery under the Theft Act 1968 - "A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land, or who picks flowers, fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land, does not (although not in possession of the land) steal what he picks, unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose."

There are some places (protected natural SSI's etc.) where it's banned by specific local laws, but I think there's a general presumptive right to it being legal to forage for wild plants.

I made crumble today, not eaten any yet though.

How high up are the blackberries? This is always an issue for me and I won't pick them below waist height personally

Section 4 of the Theft act.....

A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land, or who picks flowers, fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land, does not (although not in possession of the land) steal what he picks, unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose.

So....pick it for your own use, so long as it isn't cultivated fruit.

When blackberries are ready to be picked depends on the variety. Sometimes I am able to pick them (big, juicy) at the beginning of August and others are not ready (smaller, usually woodland type) until the Autumn.

I wouldn't eat blackberries from a cinema car park, they've probably got man-wee on them. (or worse)