There's low, and then there's the people who did this...

[sandyRoe]

http://www.google.com...N0830601318066631553A

If the vandals are caught what would be a fitting punishment?

[marval]

If I got my hand on them, they would have nothing left to vandal with.

[anneasquith]

prison................

[missnemesis]

I'd send the feckers to Afghanistan.

[RATTER15]

A suspended sentence,

Suspend them by the testicles for a week!!!

[B00]

Lol, bit excessive all that isn't it? ^

Yes, its horrible what they did, but it's not like they murdered anyone here, let's get some perspective please!

Fitting punishment? Make them pay and then help re-assemble the monument.

[ummmm]

Agree with BOO...

[tiggerblue10]

I have to agree with B00 too.

[China Doll]

I also agree with Boobies, just because something isn't emotive doesn't mean that the punishment has to outweigh the crime.

[sandyRoe]

I think it does matter. Their wanton destruction has added insult to injury.

[B00]

What would you have done to them then Sandy? Is it on par with murdering someone? We give them a life sentence?

[missnemesis]

>>> Does it actually matter WHAT the object is? <<<

Yes it does trim. In this instance it very much does.

[sandyRoe]

Boo, I'd maybe take them to see amputees trying to remake their lives at a place like Headley Court. They could come to see that memorials aren't just about middle aged men wearing poppies and marching on Remembrance Day

[B00]

And who's to say the amputees want to see them? They aren't a freak show, there to be trotted out for folk to gawk at.

[anneasquith]

large garden ornament has been vandalized ( it has great sentimental value ) a war memorial has been vandalized. is there a difference. yes !

[nannybooby]

we have a little charmer in our village who pees on the war memorial , the parsh council spoke to her yes her and she just laughed. What can you do the police dont want to know.

[ladybirder]

Take a picture of her performing and send it to the local paper.

[daffy654]

That link doesn't work for me, it just leads to a page that says Google News at the top with a box to sign into my Google account. Does anyone have another link to this story please?

[B00]

Yes agree Anne, but my point is- the punishment's wanted to be metered out by you and several others seem overly harsh. If you send folk to Afghanistan for something like this, what on earth would you do for murder?

[ChuckFickens]

strange, the link works for me and I'm not signed into my google account on this computer...

anyhow...

http://www.independen...memorial-2367578.html