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Post by linda on Jul 30, 2020 7:58:28 GMT
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Post by magggzzz on Jul 30, 2020 12:40:57 GMT
There are so many people who just don’t care. This sort of thing is heartbreaking.
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Post by vwcamperfan on Jul 30, 2020 15:30:13 GMT
Because some people just don't give a damn, have no respect, are selfish and no there are rarely consequences for their actions sadly. we used to have over 30 police at our station, now it is only open in an emergency, no permanent staff there, and despite the extortionate amount we pay to the police in our council tax, rarely see them. Worrying how things are rapidly going downhill....
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Post by linda on Jul 30, 2020 16:07:06 GMT
Hubby reckons angry, bored youths and do it just for fun, just for the sake of it.
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Post by trisha on Jul 30, 2020 17:07:57 GMT
That's unforgivable, it's such a wonderful old tree.
I recall, quite a few years ago, having my photo taken standing inside it
The problem is, there is no deterrent for the vandals. If someone is found, all they will get is a mild telling off.
Trisha
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Post by linda on Jul 30, 2020 17:49:41 GMT
That's unforgivable, it's such a wonderful old tree. I recall, quite a few years ago, having my photo taken standing inside it The problem is, there is no deterrent for the vandals. If someone is found, all they will get is a mild telling off. Trisha You stood inside it trisha, ooohhh lucky you ! |
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Post by trisha on Jul 30, 2020 17:53:41 GMT
Linda, I wasn't very old. Maybe 6 or 7'
Trisha
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Post by Bellatrix on Aug 2, 2020 19:17:52 GMT
Wow Trisha! 
Very sad to see the tree like this  |
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Post by vwcamperfan on Aug 3, 2020 7:39:26 GMT
Vandals have also set fire to a building on the Severn Valley railway this weekend, plus our local bird hides on the nature reserve have succumbed to vandalism just days after they were rebuilt from the previous spate of it. If you say anything, people stick up for the kids saying they are just bored and there's nothing for them to do!! That riles me as we grew up with very little, no computers just our bikes to play out with, yet had loads of fun and never wrecked anything.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2020 13:22:59 GMT
Any destruction of the environment is sickening to me too.
I love nature, which is the main reason we came to live in the New Forest.
Wanton vandalism is completely reprehensible. The people who do these things are really sick in their minds. They have a complete lack of respect for the environment they are in and for whatever twisted reason they use to justify their actions, there simply is no excuse.
They deserve the full force of what the law can give them, but sadly they never get caught. Or if they do, then the penalty is so ridiculous as to be a waste of time and taxpayers money.
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Post by magggzzz on Aug 18, 2020 13:47:31 GMT
I have a very strong hatred of litter. I would never just throw something on the ground and I can’t understand the mentality of people who think it’s ok. Once I saw a chocolate wrapper just chucked out of the window of a parked car so naturally I picked it up and threw it back in. It was an older man and he just glared at me and chucked it back out. I don’t get why he thought he was right.
Vandalism does seem to be a feature of modern life. Where I am they’re fitting defibrillators in every village centre. The one where we live is ok but in the next village it was destroyed as soon as it was put up.
Near where my dad lives they’ve put the defibrillators into old phone boxes and painted them yellow. I think that’s a great idea. I’ve been shown how they work and it’s very simple. There’s instructions next to them so anyone can use them. It could really save lives.
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Post by moi on Aug 18, 2020 17:01:44 GMT
There is a real Sherwood Forest ? To me it was a fairy tale like Santa's Village . OMG !!!  You learn something new every day  |
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Post by vwcamperfan on Aug 19, 2020 7:47:48 GMT
Haha Moi - there is indeed. We also have a Bethlehem here in Wales, and the famous Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantisiliogogogoch!!!!
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Post by Jazzy on Aug 19, 2020 15:07:40 GMT
Haha Moi - there is indeed. We also have a Bethlehem here in Wales, and the famous Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyndrobwllantisiliogogogoch!!!! Oh come on VW, you’re just showing off with those two names, envy Wales having Bethlehem though, but you can keep the other one, which I bet you can say easy peasy 🤣 Anyway, over here we’ve got Cold Christmas, a village in Hertfordshire 😀 Is there a place called ‘Soggy Bottom’ if so, chances are Paul Hollywood lives there? |
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Post by Bellatrix on Aug 19, 2020 16:42:43 GMT
Wish we had audio on here VW, would love to hear you say that 
and at Moi, yes a real Sherwood forest. They say that Robin hood was a fictional character but taken from events at the time a "Hud or hod" was another name for a criminal and it is thought that Robin was taken from the word robbing, so a robbing criminal, which there were many of seeking refuge in the forest as they didn't agree with what Prince John was doing regarding the land at the time. I thought Kevin Costner was a great Robin Hood, but I was a bit younger then and really wanted to be his Maid Marion
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