According to reader Ben, this damage was done to one of the recently restored shelters here on the East Cliff yesterday afternoon. The vandals were apparently four nippers, aged around nine or ten, who were, er, getting satisfaction out of heaving stones at the shelter.
The rozzers were called and some names have been taken, let's hope they don't have any sympathy for the little devils. (That's enough Rolling Stones tracks - Ed.)
I had been meaning praise the restoration of these Victorian edifices (14 in all along our lovely front), which the Ramsgate Society supervised having won a £500K grant from the Townscape Heritage Initiative. My picture below shows their previous, parlous state, back in ye olden days (2007), after they'd spent a number of years being neglected by that other gang of mindless vandals, Thanet Council.
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19 comments:
hope they get it repaired and the parents are made to cough up for it
Sadly I knew it was only a matter of time before some mindless idiots would do this.
Make the parents pay for the damage, I agree.
Unless there is a return to proper policing - which is unlikely - this is to be expected.
Of course, what we're all dying to know is what the 0%, aquifer, pollution, gun ranges angle is!
Are you sure it was caused by stones and not being used for rifle practice?
Are you sure the damage was not caused by fracking or am I being green
It was probably the noise from low flying aircraft!
Hehe!
8.43
Ass about face but good effort.
Kids picking up ammo and using catapults to propel it to damage roofs. That was the police explanation for bullets hitting roofs beyond the said gun range.
And no this is not a made up story.
By the time certain range users had moved on to the land of song they musta traded in the catapults for Uzis then Kent Police ? Luckily recently someone in authority asked Kent Chief constable for an explanation
Well evenin all I'll be off then says Kent Chief constable
Luckily he has until January to sort out the shelter vandalism in olde Ramsgate towne.
Are you sure they weren't reshooting a Hazel O'Connor vid :
l love the sound of breaking glass
Especially when I'm lonely
l need the noises of destruction
When there's nothing new
Oh, nothing new, sound of breaking glass
I love the sound of breaking glass
Deep into the night
l love the sound of its condition Flyin' all around
I knew there'd be a gun ranges explanation! Thanks Rick (10:43am)!
And I think you may have confused Hazel O'Connor with Nick Lowe there, 10:52am!
Breaking Glass, the song, was by Mr Nick Lowe. Breaking Glass, the movie, starred Ms Hazel O'Connor. Sheesh...
May I add Walking On Broken Glass by Annie Lennox to this particular playlist?
When I was a young man I worked with older people who had been birched they said you never go back for a second time bring it back now that would solve the vandalism problem providing of course we can catch them humiliation is a great deterrent,
Stargazer.
A good kicking is a great deterrent too!
Why not just hang them and be done with it?
Or make them drink water from the aquifer, but, hang on a moment, the aquifer man is in Hanoi this week celebrating the passing of the butcher Giap. Seems the late general is a bit of a hero in the Green world.
And what about this one by David Bowie :
Baby I've been breaking glass in your room again Listen
Don't look At the carpet I drew something awful on it See
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