Vandals break onto Bomber Command memorial site leaving trail of damage

[ricardian]

The team behind the International Bomber Command Centre project on Canwick Hill in Lincoln were met with devastating scenes after vandals broke onto the site.

Newspaper report (http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2017/03/vandals-break-onto-bomber-command-memorial-site-leaving-trail-damage/)

[Rosevidney1]

I'd like to think that the louts who did this will be caught and punished but unfortunately they will undoubtedly be leniently treated and given some piffling amount of 'community service' instead. Their lawyers will claim they came from deprived homes or were upset at something. Grrrr.

[NutLoose]

They should be flown to Germany to understand the important work that Bomber Command did....... And then dropped.

[Chugalug2]

Reading the linked report it would appear that the motivation was primarily robbery. Whether the associated vandalism was a targeted attack or merely the corollary of robbery, rather as burglars not only deprive you of your valuables but turn your home over into the bargain, we'll no doubt learn in good time.

Bomber Command memorials are particularly prone to being targeted for despoiling, witness the one in London as well as Harris's statue. I'd be surprised if there were not some added protection in place at Lincoln for the upcoming open weekend, but even if so it was clearly insufficient. A lesson to be learned?

[NutLoose]

Bomber Command memorial damaged by trespassers - BBC News (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-36170562)

[mopardave]

I was paying my respects at the CWGC graveyard at Harrogate last week.....struck up a conversation with the gardeners...who were clearly happy in their work and showed great pride and respect to all the boys buried there......they'd recently collared two of Harrogate's finest titting about. They challenged them and pointed out the ages on the headstones.......similar to their own ages. They were shocked and then asked if they were casualties from GW1 or GW2! Gawd 'elp us! :{


They are to be pitied (as they're obviously retarded)....after they've been birched!
MD

[Fonsini]

They caught 2 scumbags spray painting a wall here in my otherwise peaceful Phoenix suburb last year, first offenders - and they received 2 years in jail, and jail in Phoenix is a tent in the desert - literally.

Strangely we haven't had a single incident since.

As for vandalising a war memorial in the US - there's a fair chance you would end up with extra holes in you and I have never personally heard of such an occurrence.

As a young lad I played Last Post and Reveille on Remembrance Sunday at a local war memorial in Cheshire for many years - if nothing else it imbued me with an immense sense of respect for the services.

[Heathrow Harry]

Kids with nothing better to do and no imagination to do something useful - same sort that go around shooting swans with air rifles

I guess the rise of the couch potato and games playing fraternity keeps a lot of the streets these days tho'.....

[Evanelpus]

They caught 2 scumbags spray painting a wall here in my otherwise peaceful Phoenix suburb last year, first offenders - and they received 2 years in jail, and jail in Phoenix is a tent in the desert - literally.


Now you are talking.

Sadly, as someone has already eluded to, the PC brigade in the UK will probably slap their wrists and send them for a two week vacation in the Maldives.

[VX275]

I've always preferred St Kilda as a location for a scroates holiday camp, and Rockall for repeat offenders.

[JW411]

Steady on; what have you got against Rockall?

[SPIT]

If they get them??? coundnt thwy send them to Gruniard Island ( but give them a tent).

[NutLoose]

Not half as bad these days, you need to dig on the place to get a decent dose, perhaps one could plough it before they arrive.

[ricardian]

Some good news (http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/open-day-will-go-ahead-at-bomber-command-centre-after-community-rallied-round-following-burglary/story-30209265-detail/story.html)