Also in the News - Part 2

[Foxdiamond]

1 minute ago, Dunge said:

Could be that they’re mad and doing it for illogical reasons. Could be they’re trying to impress someone.

Or it could be that they’re just callous and doing it for the sport of upsetting people. It’s not like you need to search social media for long to find people like that.

 

1 minute ago, Dunge said:

Could be that they’re mad and doing it for illogical reasons. Could be they’re trying to impress someone.

Or it could be that they’re just callous and doing it for the sport of upsetting people. It’s not like you need to search social media for long to find people like that.

Yes, another rather depressing feature of some in our midst 

[urban.spaceman]

1 hour ago, Foxdiamond said:

Why would someone think this is good for a laugh 

 

1 hour ago, Dunge said:

Could be that they’re mad and doing it for illogical reasons. Could be they’re trying to impress someone.

Or it could be that they’re just callous and doing it for the sport of upsetting people. It’s not like you need to search social media for long to find people like that.

 

[Tuna]

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Edited 28 September 2023 by Tuna

[urban.spaceman]

7 minutes ago, Tuna said:

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Is this the title of Ed Sheeran’s new album?

[FoxesDeb]

24 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Is this the title of Ed Sheeran’s new album?

It's certainly @Tunas favourite post these days, I see it everywhere 

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

This is sad. Quite a remarkable commitment to vandalism from somebody....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66947040

 

Why, just... why? 

[Bellend Sebastian]

30 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Why, just... why? 

It's international level c**tery isn't it?

 

You know the cops have gone into the local secondary school and said, please tell us anonymously who's a big enough c*** to have done this and been given a list where one name comes up again and again.

 

To destroy something so irreplaceable, so iconic..the only thing I can think of that's similar is when the Taliban blew up those massive ancient statues. This lad is going to be about as popular

[Guest worth_the_wait]

5 hours ago, ClaphamFox said:

This is sad. Quite a remarkable commitment to vandalism from somebody....

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66947040

What's so sad, is that you can't actually repair the damage.   Nature takes 100's of years to create something beautiful, and some knob destroys it for no (good) reason.

 

Artificial structures can often be repaired - even terrible fires like at Windsor Castle or Notre-Dame.   But you can't put back this magnificent tree.

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

How big a tree can you transplant from one place to another? Come on boffins, get working on it. There's bound to be one going spare on some country estate somewhere

[BKLFox]

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after one of the most photographed trees in the country was cut down.

The 16-year-old boy is being held in police custody and is said to be assisting officers with their enquiries.

Superintendent Kevin Waring, of Northumbria Police, said: "This is a world-renowned landmark and the events of today have caused significant shock, sadness and anger throughout the local community and beyond.

 

He'll get a talking to & let go no charge no doubt.

[foxile5]

Ugh.

[goose2010]

More to it than this. Absolutely no chance a 16 year has cut that down. It's a perfect cut, if they have they should go into professionally! 

[Zear0]

Probably went with his dad

[Daggers]

It’s all kicking off in Stoke

 

 

[Grebfromgrebland]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

It’s all kicking off in Stoke

 

 

Sounds like he needs a case worker not prison.

[Bellend Sebastian]

7 hours ago, Daggers said:

It’s all kicking off in Stoke

 

 

"there are concerns with mental illness"

 

Understatement of the year contender, there. Obviously something needs to be done with him but I wouldn't be wildly optimistic that prison is going to get him sorted

[Wortho]

What a horrible and tragic death of a 15 year old. The poor girl was going to school fgs. What a sick world we live in, when young men seem to think it’s normal behaviour to carry zombie knives.

 

London is now stab city, and it’s all on Khan’s watch. He should resign.

[leicsmac]

16 minutes ago, Wortho said:

What a horrible and tragic death of a 15 year old. The poor girl was going to school fgs. What a sick world we live in, when young men seem to think it’s normal behaviour to carry zombie knives.

 

London is now stab city, and it’s all on Khan’s watch. He should resign.

No sicker that what has preceded it. People just like to romanticise the past.

[Foxdiamond]

16 minutes ago, Wortho said:

What a horrible and tragic death of a 15 year old. The poor girl was going to school fgs. What a sick world we live in, when young men seem to think it’s normal behaviour to carry zombie knives.

 

London is now stab city, and it’s all on Khan’s watch. He should resign.

See what the YMCA has to say about government cuts to youth services

[Wortho]

5 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

See what the YMCA has to say about government cuts to youth services

So that makes a you carry a zombie knife? Strange reply.

[leicsmac]

On the topic of the fallen tree, I'm reminded of the last part of the Lord of the Rings - the "Scouring of the Shire" - where agents of Saruman cut down trees and spoil the land in the Shire, not for any real gain in the long run, but purely out of spite.

 

This sounds very much like that - just spite.

[Foxdiamond]

10 minutes ago, Wortho said:

So that makes a you carry a zombie knife? Strange reply.

You do see everything in isolation. How many times have famous boxers for example said their local club turned them away from crime. The cuts have meant fewer youth workers and social services to divert young people from gangs etc

[Lionator]

5 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

You do see everything in isolation. How many times have famous boxers for example said their local club turned them away from crime. The cuts have meant fewer youth workers and social services to divert young people from gangs etc

Can absolutely guarantee that cuts to social care, education and all sorts of other things make conditions like this possible. Not to remove the responsibility from the individual of course. It’s not rocket science that between 1997-2010 when public services were well funded that crime went down and since austerity began, crime rose again. 

[Wortho]

I’m not sure youth clubs are the answer. I think there has been 16 teenage murders in London this year. Also thousands of other stabbings. 
Perhaps if you are caught with a knife you should get a minimum 5 years. The courts find a reason not to send them to prison.

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, Wortho said:

I’m not sure youth clubs are the answer. I think there has been 16 teenage murders in London this year. Also thousands of other stabbings. 
Perhaps if you are caught with a knife you should get a minimum 5 years. The courts find a reason not to send them to prison.

The past rather clearly shows harsh punishments by themselves do not deter crime.

 

There needs to be better support structures to address the root causes, unless one wants to write off large swathes of the population as inherently criminal and lock them all up.