Vandals - what a bunch of *****

[Andy 308GTB]

red_slr said:

hab1966 said:

Just giving page

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/market-dee...

Wonderful, I will chip in. Looks like they will have enough to make it bigger and better.

It's over £21,000 already!
Hopefully that level of support will restore some faith in them.

[miniman]

Model enthusiasts of many kinds can be the subject of anything ranging from light joshing to full on ridicule but this is just hearbreakingly disgusting. Perhaps we’ve created a generation for whom “entertainment” is instant gratification via a screen of some sort. The people who did this are a disgrace, as are their parents. Donation made.

[mike9009]

There is a simple punishment for this.

Get them to spend their own 1000's of hours reconstructing it all. Get some of the local 'Age Concern' to come and compliment it, then smash it up again in their faces. Then get them to make it again.

[227bhp]

I wonder if Pete Waterman knows about this, maybe some could tweet him or whatever, he would likely make a donation.

[Roofless Toothless]

JPJPJP said:

I'd like to hear, in the not too distant future, that the four youths have all developed cancer.

That would cheer me up.

I have been diagnosed with cancer. What do you suggest I have done in the past to deserve it?

[dundarach]

We've not created anything new.

Society has been in decline for quite some time.

Respect and responsibility are simply none existent in the whole.

I think we've got some hard choices:

1. Re-invest in the social fabric (community centres, sure start etc.) and wallpaper over the problems

2. Massively increase prison population and time and forget about them

3. Invest in education

4. Invest in the police

5. Invest in the fabric of society

All of the above require more money, therefore more taxes, therefore people will not vote for them.

We're all to blame.

It'll get considerably worse!

And on that cheery note...

[Barga]

GroundEffect said:

So we should kill them?!

Hell, if the death penalty doesn't stop people murdering, why would it stop this?

It would definitely stop them doing it again!

[funkyrobot]

snuffy said:

A few years ago I answered my front door to find a father with two small exceptionally sheepish children who proceeded to hand back my Lotus's dust caps and apologise for stealing them. It turned out they had taken them off a number of cars and he was marching them round to several people's houses. "right, come on you two, we have not finished yet" he said to them as they left. They looked frightened to death. Good. If more parents were like him the world would be better.

I wish the father of this lad we saw at the seaside a month ago was like that.

We bought my daughter a fishing net on a long wooden pole thing. We had a go on a funfair ride and the operator took my daughter's net and put it in the paybox while we were on the ride.

As the ride finished and we were walking around to the paybox, we saw a young lad step into it, take the fishing net and walk off.

I caught up with him and asked him what he was doing taking something that didn't belong to him. Both him and his dad just looked at me with a gawp on their faces.

I took the net off the lad and they didn't say anything. No apology, no telling off from the dad. They just stood there.

That lad will be stealing bits off cars, if he isn't doing so already.

[227bhp]

Roofless Toothless said:

JPJPJP said:

I'd like to hear, in the not too distant future, that the four youths have all developed cancer.

That would cheer me up.

I have been diagnosed with cancer. What do you suggest I have done in the past to deserve it?

Did you smash somebody's train set up?

[Pit Pony]

Tom Logan said:

What purpose would be served by a cosy little chat with vermin like this?

They would just laugh in your face.

Maybe. I reckon my wife would have them begging for mercy, just by talking to them.
Previous job? Behaviour Mentor in an inner city primary school.

[21TonyK]

funkyrobot said:

snuffy said:

A few years ago I answered my front door to find a father with two small exceptionally sheepish children who proceeded to hand back my Lotus's dust caps and apologise for stealing them. It turned out they had taken them off a number of cars and he was marching them round to several people's houses. "right, come on you two, we have not finished yet" he said to them as they left. They looked frightened to death. Good. If more parents were like him the world would be better.

I wish the father of this lad we saw at the seaside a month ago was like that.

We bought my daughter a fishing net on a long wooden pole thing. We had a go on a funfair ride and the operator took my daughter's net and put it in the paybox while we were on the ride.

As the ride finished and we were walking around to the paybox, we saw a young lad step into it, take the fishing net and walk off.

I caught up with him and asked him what he was doing taking something that didn't belong to him. Both him and his dad just looked at me with a gawp on their faces.

I took the net off the lad and they didn't say anything. No apology, no telling off from the dad. They just stood there.

That lad will be stealing bits off cars, if he isn't doing so already.

When I was about 6-7 years old (1976-7) I took a pack of batteries from a display in a shop while my Mum was busy doing something else. Some time later on our shopping trip she found them in my pocket.

She marched me back to the shop, demanded the manager and made me and back the batteries and apologise to him and everyone else.

First and last time I ever even considered taking anything that did not belong to me be it something material or less tangible such as credit for research, development or work.

RIP Mum

/old school values (maybe thats what they need)

[L555BAT]

Very sad, a lifetime's work destroyed. Money won't replace many of these exhibits.

[W124Bob]

This cuts to the core of my tolerence, as someone with a big collection (70+ locos alone)of mostly now out of production British and US "OO&HO" . Mentally alone I really would loose heart, would I start again ? Not sure about the crowd funding, the exhibtion organisers will have insurance and exhibitors will fill out approximate values for everything. I know thats not going to help mentally those who've lost many years worth of work. It's also worth mentioning those traders who have also lost out, perhaps they'll get some of the fund money.

[anonymous-user]

Totally unacceptable behaviour, they should be named and shamed at the very least or put in the stocks so rotten fruit can be thrown at them.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 19th May 22:45

[poo at Paul's]

dundarach said:

We've not created anything new.

Society has been in decline for quite some time.

Respect and responsibility are simply none existent in the whole.

I think we've got some hard choices:

1. Re-invest in the social fabric (community centres, sure start etc.) and wallpaper over the problems

2. Massively increase prison population and time and forget about them

3. Invest in education

4. Invest in the police

5. Invest in the fabric of society

All of the above require more money, therefore more taxes, therefore people will not vote for them.

We're all to blame.

It'll get considerably worse!

And on that cheery note...

Option 2 seems favourite. Dump HS fking 2 waste of time and use the money to build some big fk off prisons, hire st loads of prison service staff, and lock a few more fkers up.

[Hoofy]

untakenname said:

The damages should be deducted from the perpetrators parents child benefits till the full cost is repaid.

Last time I suggested that the parents should be made to answer to a scrote's behaviour, I was told that they can't because it's impossible to keep them under control as they have adhdhaaskljasd1223!

[anonymous-user]

Pesty said:

La Liga said:

It's a terrible thing to do, no doubt about that.

In terms of punishment, prohibiting such behavior, recidivism, rehabilitation etc, there's quite a lot of evidence within criminology as to what works and what doesn't. The default 'go-to when angry' 'solutions' (as per many in the thread) don't tend to be the ones supported by the evidence.

Yet we’ve tried the softly softly approach, constant reforms. Oh no the last reforms didn’t work let’s reform more, send them in safaris etc etc. But we’ve never tried going the other way.

These kids will be riding stolen scooters and burying hammers in people helmets in a few years, running somebody over in a speeding car.
Funny that in my stty council estate all the assholes at school who did st like this varied on being stheads despite being let off over and over.

We've never done the 'soft stuff' properly. We send more people to prison for longer than ever before.

[Finlandia]

La Liga said:

e've never done the 'soft stuff' properly. We send more people to prison for longer than ever before.

Sweden has, it doesn't work.

[peterperkins]

La Liga said:

e've never done the 'soft stuff' properly. We send more people to prison for longer than ever before.

Good....

[BeastieBoy73]

Had a similar thing happen near where I live but with real vintage trains recently.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nottinghampost....

I’ve enjoyed going round this place for years and given the size of the restoration of some of the trains and rolling stock, some of the old boys and girls working on them, for free, are not likely to see them completed.

Even less likely now.

Weapons grade scum