Kevin Haughton, 70, said the huge pole made it difficult to get past and ridiculed the placing as "idiocy". After complaining to BT Openreach, bosses agreed to move the pole a few weeks later, reinstalling it nearly 10ft away. The former policeman called the move a "victory for common sense".
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Mr Haughton, of Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, said: "Openreach had been laying a cable in the area.
Struggled "They arrived with a lorry full of poles and started digging. I didn't think twice and didn't take any notice.
"But, some hours later, when I drove off from my house I saw the full scale of the pole.
"They had put it at the end of a path and near the top of the steps. Anyone
