christchurch british police sent a helicopter armed officers and dog handlers to a latenight report of a man brandishing a weapon to find a gardener using a rake wayne dodd had been helping friend stephen hogan with some landscaping when they noticed the helicopter circling stephen said all of a sudden there was a lot of commotion my wife alison looked outside and saw about five police cars armed officers and dogs they came to the door saying someone had a weapon plumber stephen 55 said the officers asked to check the back garden as their eyes in the sky had confirmed activity there he said they came in and found wayne with the rake hed been helping flatten some ground we werent making much noise police in christchurch dorset confirmed they were answering a 999 call from a nearby nursing home reporting a man holding what seemed to be a weapon officers had been sent to the bungalow just before midnight after the chopper team confirmed someone was in the garden wayne 43 said i was rolling an old part of the garden and saw the helicopter by the time the police came i was raking over the ground and then they just left stephen added its reassuring they checked it out but in the end they did all that just to see what was going on in our garden daily mirror