Cars vandalised

[EileenH]

Ha! Ha! Had all the jokes about the body shop not to mention 'getting me a better one'. (With what I eat, it would be a wate of time- only end up the same size again!) On a more serious note, I have been told who scratched my car. Going to the police is a waste of time as I've only the word of someone who's heard who it is thats doin it. This person seemingly hangs about the car park kicking his football around the cars, next thing folk are complaining their cars are scratched. The manager says his staff have been told to watch for him. Think it's time they put cameras up.

[general jack o'niell]

just get someone to hang around and give him a good slap, then it will only be his word against yours, doesn't pay for the damage, but if i knew who had scraped their car along the side of mine, as happened a few weeks ago, thats wot i'd do and i wouldn't be stopping at a slap, i've had dogs abuse in the local supermarkets from mothers and grannies when i'm trying to work on my machines and the little darlings are wanting a go!!!

i'm always very polite while i whisper in their ear and tell them i'm not employed by said supermarket and that i know exactly who they are and which sewer they were dragged up in.

[bill]

Was thinking of comming up the road for a few days in November,now I'm not so sure.All this vandalizing of motors,we do'nt have any of that here in Bonnie Corby.

With the new town centre opening in two months,the building of the new railway station,the new swimming pool/civic complex,all the new warehouses and the proposed Chinese village,Corby really is the place to be.

[ionnsaigh]

Was thinking of comming up the road for a few days in November,now I'm not so sure.All this vandalizing of motors,we do'nt have any of that here in Bonnie Corby.

With the new town centre opening in two months,the building of the new railway station,the new swimming pool/civic complex,all the new warehouses and the proposed Chinese village,Corby really is the place to be.

I can't belief you don't have cars in Corby Bill- surely no.

[hugh]

Yeah, Bill, they're doing up the Maple Leaf as well and I'm sure your car would be well looked after if it was
parked in Canada Square...one of the things I remember about Campbeltown is that everyone had a sense of
right and wrong and a reasonable sense of respect for other people's property (I lived there for 17 years and I
can't remember a single burglary or car theft, and deliberate car-scratching was regarded as totally beyond the
pale. Not a social worker in sight, either.) Is that just rose-tinted nostalgia or has vandalism become something
to be analysed, understood and sympathised with in Campbeltown as it is in Corby?

[bill]

Is that just rose-tinted nostalgia

...YES

[hugh]

Aaah, well, maybe I dreamt the whole thing after a session in the Rock...

[bill]

Only the best pubs for you Hugh,Rock and Maple Leaf

[hugh]

I like pubs with character... is the Ailsa still going these days?

[bill]

The Ailsa will always be there.

[dunoon]

maybe i did? or maybe i should have just said the grandparents should have been neutered, the town would be a much nicer place, except for the influx of the dregs from elsewhere of course, but i think i mentioned a wall at the west loch about a year ago?

There is much speculation in the papers . just now, abouth the 'one broken window theory'. You allow one broken window - more will follow. So punish the trivial crimes and the more serious ones will also be prevented. Lawlessness has to start somewhere.
With that in mind I was at the Kaiser Cheifs gig at meadowbank stadium the other night. I should have know really , wall to wall, F@ckwits. So being too old for the mosh pit we headed to the stands. Nice seat, great concert, until.........
Five guys and two girls decide they'll sit at the very top teir of the stand. They light up cigs - the steward has to climb all the way to the top to tell them that there is no smoking inside the stadium. Its a lovely night why not go down onto the pitch if they want to smoke. They put the fags out. They wait till he walks all the way down - then they light up again. The sequence is repeated 3 times - everyone else is getting pissed off with the nonsense. The Steward has enough - he gets the police. Two of Lothian and Borders finest appear - they tell the smokers to put their fags out . Just a little missunderstanding say the police. No harm done!
Result... steward now has no authority. The smokers are chanting how they are going to kill him at the end of the gig and for the remainder of the session they throw beer from the stand onto the pitch soaking everyone as it flies. At least 20 people - including a pregnant woman, and a father with his two teenage sons leave. They have had enough. The Steward looks them in the eye and streching out his arms turns them palms up. Message is clear - scum 1 the rest 0. What to do? That's were it goes wrong. What should have happened was that the smokers had broken the law and should have been arrested -send the message out. But no, the police walk away and leave the rest of us to the mob. Thanks guys - enjoy your pension when it comes!
On the pitch the police watch as neds pee in pint glasses and hurl them into the crown. You can blame parents all you like - but when those earning a hamsome wage can't even do their job of protecting society what chance have we got. The backlash has to start somewhere. Now if I had been the one wearing the stab vest..................... One broken window.

[general jack o'niell]

glad i wasn't there, i'm not as patient as you, i'd have demanded the police remove them on the spot, chuck them out, see how funny it was then

the ned mentality rules, just look at the court reports locally, the same families appearing again and again, some into their third or fourth generation, i'll give them blood crisis loans, but then you know that already from your years on the frontline of servitude to the "neddy" when you worked for the DHSS.

shoot all the scum, then ban the guns, better still, anyone caught commiting multiple cases of assault, drink driving, vandalism etc should be marched to basra, but then i expect half of them have already tried to join up, theres plenty of cannon fodder going about