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By: - 24th May 2012 at 15:55 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yet again
:mad:
Can't we just bring back hanging!
Always thought (in my liberal view) that lamp posts are under used in this country!
MS
By: - 24th May 2012 at 16:02 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Disgusting...surely the scrap yards that take these are equally to blame; they must know what they are being given.:mad:
By: - 24th May 2012 at 16:06 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yes, plenty of scrap yards do not care where things have come from. They are more to blame than the thieves.
By: - 24th May 2012 at 16:07 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Of course, there is the chance that it wasn’t taken for scrap...
...I doubt any scrapyard would have given three quid for it (especially knowing its likely source)! :(
By: - 24th May 2012 at 16:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
It's the scrap yards that are the problem. The places are predominantly owned and run by unscrupulous underworld criminal scumbag types who are more than happy to pay money to other scumbags for anything, whether it be a memorial plaque or a church roof. The Police raided one in South London the other day and found a 1 ton bronze dragon and a load of memorial plaques.
By: - 24th May 2012 at 16:56 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Words no longer fail me since this kind of thing is now a daily event.
Quite so. :mad:
Moggy
By: - 24th May 2012 at 16:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I cannot think why else it would be taken...
I thought maybe there was the possibility that somebody who had an ‘interest’ took it. :o
I take your point about the ‘modus operandi’ of the scrap thieves though.....it is a sad world we live in!
By: - 24th May 2012 at 17:17 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I went for a job at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Maidenhead.
They give you a small tour of their museum which explains how they create and maintain the graves including the large memorial with the sword.
The sword is now made of plastic as the bronze ones were often stolen for scrap and cost a fortune to replace.
By: - 24th May 2012 at 18:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
What Scum Bags !
By: - 24th May 2012 at 18:05 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
If somebody 'with an interest' took it, then in my book they are lower-lives than any opportunist metal thief.
I agree entirely. It is not something that I have any evidence of and, I hasten to add, it is absolutely not something that I would condone in any way but I think there is the possibility that certain artefacts taken from memorials are not actually taken for their scrap value (although I concede that that is what happens in the vast majority of such cases).
By: - 24th May 2012 at 18:43 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Sadly all too common now..just happened to the church in our village,but I`m sure as with previous local thieves and drugpushers..they will be found out,taken away and given a good beating.................allegedly.This ,so I`m told,works.
By: - 24th May 2012 at 18:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
We have reached a place where the value of the sacrifices made is only (symbolicaly) worthy of a plastic toy-box sword.
We could try one of these...
...I’d like to see the b******s try and carry that off! :diablo:
(I hope everybody recognises this.....and, yes, it really is that big!)
By: - 24th May 2012 at 19:19 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
By: - 24th May 2012 at 19:21 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The [scrap metal dealers] who are prepared to accept lead and not ask any questions are as guilty as those who steal it.’
quite right too......................
By: - 24th May 2012 at 19:30 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
The thief and dealer should be sentenced to a months mine clearance duties in Afghanistan, get them to walk in front of patrols for that period.... That will educate them.
By: - 24th May 2012 at 19:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Terrible. There are modern resins that are really good that if bronze dust is used in the 'gel coat' look the bees.....at least these scum bags would not profit. The other thing would be a tracker device
By: - 24th May 2012 at 20:15 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There is some of this ‘plastic’ brass in a park near me.....it is so good there are signs on it saying it is fake! :rolleyes:
By: Anonymous (not verified) - 24th May 2012 at 15:50
Perhaps to time has come to replace all such memorials with look-alike Bronze resin since connecting these memorials to the National Grid is not an option:
http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Memorial-Battle-Britain-pilot-shot-Westerham/story-16173400-detail/story.html
Words no longer fail me since this kind of thing is now a daily event.