Went fishing yesterday to my club based locally in sleepy Bedfordshire only to find that it had been a victim to vandalism!

Four seats of remembrance had been pushed into the first lake! These seats are not cheap possibly in the eight hundred pound mark. The golf tea had been thrown in and the small pleasure boats been chucked in and let loose.

We do on occasion see evidence of bread/spinners and the wiggly things and we have had to encounter poaching with nets from certain new elements of the community that don’t speak English.

But plain bloody vandalism is just inexplicable. When I was a lad (here we go (fellow forumites mutter)) it used to be apples particularly at this time of the year. Well the owner, committee and me included wouldn’t mind so much if that is the only loss.

Just more work and less fishing.

Just signs of the times I suppose!

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Thats really **** loopy.........worst of it is , should the police actually catch the perpetrators they probably wouldn't even be charged, let alone actually punished.

Little shits.

Sorry to hear about the damage, and hope it's all been cleared up now - as for scrumping, some of us still do!

sad relly sad hope things get sorted out and these people / animals are caught red handed , but as said above ,they would likely get away with it ive seen it happen.....

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Blooming disgraceful. The sad thing is though re. your point about apples, I took my two wee girls for chestnuts to a place I used to go as a kid. Got them back to the car and went to get a couple of chestnut leaves for a nature board and a local pulled up to ask me what I was doing, on telling him it was none of his business he decided to exchange pleasantries with me and it stopped just short of blows. I can see the guys point re. what he took to be a stranger in his neighbourhood looking at trees when he had several pallets of walling materials stacked outside his property but then again can I signs o' the times right enough.

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I think the disrespect for the seats of rememberance is particularly angering. Very sad situation. I suppose some sad little sh1thead can stand back, look at the mess, and say, hey that's who I am. Sad little b*******.

But would it have been too much to simply tell the local that you were looking for some chestnut leaves for your daughters nature board rather than 'mind your own business' which at the very least is unfriendly and agressive?

seems fair....

Originally Posted by Black-Don
Blooming disgraceful. The sad thing is though re. your point about apples, I took my two wee girls for chestnuts to a place I used to go as a kid. Got them back to the car and went to get a couple of chestnut leaves for a nature board and a local pulled up to ask me what I was doing, on telling him it was none of his business he decided to exchange pleasantries with me and it stopped just short of blows. I can see the guys point re. what he took to be a stranger in his neighbourhood looking at trees when he had several pallets of walling materials stacked outside his property but then again can I signs o' the times right enough.

But would it have been too much to simply tell the local that you were looking for some chestnut leaves for your daughters nature board rather than 'mind your own business' which at the very least is unfriendly and agressive?

BrownieBasher~ I take it you've never been to Glasgow we loose more guys there each weekend then we do in Afganistan

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Nope, because what I was doing in a public place WAS none of his business and he was in the wrong asking me in the first place. I never took offence or acted aggressively just gave the guy the answer he deserved. The fact that he then decided to get aggressive about it was due to the fact that I wasn't giving him the answer he wanted and therefore not complying with what he wanted me to do.

But it is a sign of the times as thirty years ago it would never have happened. The guy would have seen me, nodded good day and that would have been that because he would have been likely to get a bust nose for sticking it in where it was not wanted.

Where's my Flak Jacket.

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