Blackpool - I probably wouldn't recommend it
Discussion
Busterbulldog said:
My wife and I went up there about 6 years ago to celebrate our wedding anniversary , there were a lot of kids wearing hoodies that would constantly ride around you on push bikes in large gangs.
We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
I'm sorry to quote a post from 2 years earlier but I can't get over the fact you went to Blackpool for a wedding anniversary??We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
Jamescrs said:
Busterbulldog said:
My wife and I went up there about 6 years ago to celebrate our wedding anniversary , there were a lot of kids wearing hoodies that would constantly ride around you on push bikes in large gangs.
We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
I'm sorry to quote a post from 2 years earlier but I can't get over the fact you went to Blackpool for a wedding anniversary??We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
Taita said:
Krupp88 said:
Blackpool, home of the 'GR8' Hotel.
Maybe they couldn't use the word 'Great' as it would have been against advertising standards.
I had the t-shirt ripped from my back by a baying hen party group there and thankfully it is the only place I had witnessed a person gaffer taped naked to a wheelchair as his mates forcibly poured drinks down a funnel into his mouth.
Sounds pretty mega tbh!Maybe they couldn't use the word 'Great' as it would have been against advertising standards.
I had the t-shirt ripped from my back by a baying hen party group there and thankfully it is the only place I had witnessed a person gaffer taped naked to a wheelchair as his mates forcibly poured drinks down a funnel into his mouth.
...........
As long as I had somewhere quiet to sleep once I got too drunk!
Jamescrs said:
Busterbulldog said:
My wife and I went up there about 6 years ago to celebrate our wedding anniversary , there were a lot of kids wearing hoodies that would constantly ride around you on push bikes in large gangs.
We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
I'm sorry to quote a post from 2 years earlier but I can't get over the fact you went to Blackpool for a wedding anniversary??We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
Jamescrs said:
Busterbulldog said:
My wife and I went up there about 6 years ago to celebrate our wedding anniversary , there were a lot of kids wearing hoodies that would constantly ride around you on push bikes in large gangs.
We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
I'm sorry to quote a post from 2 years earlier but I can't get over the fact you went to Blackpool for a wedding anniversary??We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
Slop said:
Jamescrs said:
Busterbulldog said:
My wife and I went up there about 6 years ago to celebrate our wedding anniversary , there were a lot of kids wearing hoodies that would constantly ride around you on push bikes in large gangs.
We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
I'm sorry to quote a post from 2 years earlier but I can't get over the fact you went to Blackpool for a wedding anniversary??We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
The thing about Blackpool is it's a brash Northern resort, where you can wear Kiss me quick hats and have your palm read by Gypsy Rosalee, who has faded pictures outside of when she read the palms of 19 year old Cliff Richard, Len Fairclough, Mike and Bernie Winters, Simon Dee etc.
Genteel it ain't.
You know what you are getting when you go there.
I used to go as a kid in the 1950's, it was usually heaving, you could hardly see the sand on the beach because of the deckchairs , then cheap foreign holidays to Majorca for £40 took over.....
It's not too bad along the front, they have spent millions, but go around the back streets away from the beach and it's a different story, run down properties which have seen better days.
Genteel it ain't.
You know what you are getting when you go there.
I used to go as a kid in the 1950's, it was usually heaving, you could hardly see the sand on the beach because of the deckchairs , then cheap foreign holidays to Majorca for £40 took over.....
It's not too bad along the front, they have spent millions, but go around the back streets away from the beach and it's a different story, run down properties which have seen better days.
ACCYSTAN said:
Tram work set to start soon with the demolition of Wilkos to bring the tram upto Blackpool North train station.
Ah yes, that much delayed c*ck up by the council that has resulted in an already massively expensive tramway extension being delayed by years for what is little more than a few hundred metres of track.
Wacky Racer said:
You know what you are getting when you go there.
Here's the thing, I thought I knew. I didn't. It was far, far worse. And that was after I'd done Google streetview on our hotel parking and went directly to Halfords to buy a disclok for my steering wheel and a car cover to avoid unwanted attention. Busterbulldog said:
My wife and I went up there about 6 years ago to celebrate our wedding anniversary , there were a lot of kids wearing hoodies that would constantly ride around you on push bikes in large gangs.
We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
That's a shame, but why take all your money out with you?We went for our anniversary meal came out of the restaurant and within 20 seconds one of these scrotes rode by snatched her handbag and rode off at pace.
They had her spending money bank cards etc.
There was cctv everywhere that caught the incident. Police weren't interested even after viewing the footage. Land lady said it happened all the time.
We came home following morning wife cried all evening as so upset.
We will never return to the place.
Robertj21a said:
Ah yes, that much delayed c*ck up by the council that has resulted in an already massively expensive tramway extension being delayed by years for what is little more than a few hundred metres of track.
The amount of money the council have received in government grants, the town should look like a palace.ACCYSTAN said:
Tram work set to start soon with the demolition of Wilkos to bring the tram upto Blackpool North train station.
People arriving at Blackpool north are just going to throw their luggage in the back of a Taxi and go direct to hotel.
That small section of track is a complete waste of time.
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