Embarassing or what

A few days ago ourselves and our neighbours we tidying the road with a few pots of flowers/trees etc. Another neighbour came along and told us to take the huge pots from outside his garden. They were full of dead things. For two days well all worked weeding etc, and today Dave and myself went to bring them down. Out comes an irate Thai lady asking us what we thought we were doing. We explained that Mr Cez had given them to us. He has no right she says, they are not his. The moral of this story is "Never trust Chinese men bearing Gifts". The frightening thing is, this is the man we are trying to buy land from. Oh dear I wonder if he owns it.