Yet More Anti-Social Behavior

[Adfa]

Unbelievable
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-46127688

[Mamyalynne]

I completely take all points made, the waterfall is near to the war memorial - as were our town hall fountains.

[spathiphyllum]

TTT you really do crack me up :')

[Lie-in King]

Mindless, puerile idiocy.

[retrocop]

For 12 months,12 hours every day including weekends cleaning graffiti off war memorials and other public structures may cure these morons of misusing soap for it's original purpose.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // AH: "You have to possess the intelligence to understand respect as a concept," - indeed Andy, sadly their are morons among us who find this sort of thing amusing. //

I honestly believe it's not even as sophisticated as being rooted in a sense of humour, which again requires a modicum of intelligence.

I think these people, brain-dead as they are, register on some simple level, that their lives, and their input into society around them is meaningless and worthless, and it is a desire to make a mark, however pointless or temporary or distressing, that leads them to behaviour like this.

They can tell their friends - and themselves - "I did that …" and feel as though they have done something to identify themselves as other than the pointless waste of fresh air that they actually are.

[mushroom25]

if the perpetrators possess the level of intellect that finds this stuff amusing, willing to bet the same intellect will compel them to upload photos or footage on facebook. at which point, detecting them becomes easy.....

[spathiphyllum]

andy-hughes i think you're reading wayy too much into it with your incredible, potentially accurate imagination.

I personally think it was a bunch of school kids / very young teens with a stupid idea that didn't realise the consequences to come. I don't think there was any intent for malice against those who died, AKA, their grandparents parents.

[Arksided]

I like that idea Retrocop, a huge difference between a juvenile prank and desecrating a war memorial.

[jackthehat]

If you examine the area using Googlemaps (or similar) you will see that although the War memorial is at the front of the raised knoll of ground, the waterfall is to the side/rear of that and does not form part of the memorial itself. The suds swamped an area that is 'near' to the memorial.....it even states that in the final photograph.

There is nothing to suggest that it is an act of desecration, simply an act of stupidity from those not understanding the significance of Sunday next.

[spathiphyllum]

The waterfall had crochet poppies on it, so i think it was tide(lol) into the memorial.

[andy-hughes]

spath - // andy-hughes i think you're reading wayy too much into it with your incredible, potentially accurate imagination.

I personally think it was a bunch of school kids / very young teens with a stupid idea that didn't realise the consequences to come. I don't think there was any intent for malice against those who died, AKA, their grandparents parents. //

Stupid idea ... no concept of consequences ... that is basically what I said - except that I offered a more considered reason as to why these people behave the way that they do.

[retrocop]

The photos indicate that the knitted poppies coming down the side of the flume got a drenching of suds by the ***. :-(

[Ken4155]

It's not, though, is it? Unbelievable, i mean. Things like this are happening more and more and while they may be nothing more sinister than schoolboy pranks, they should not go unpunished.

[Arksided]

In a strange way I do hope it was just naivety by youngsters and not purposely done with disrespect.

[jackthehat]

If you approach the waterfall by travelling up the hill, it doesn't look to be anything other than water cascading down some rocks. It has no connection to the war memorial itself which is sited round the corner on top of the hill.

As the article says, it is a feature which seems to attract this sort of behaviour. It is just that this is a particularly sensitive time of year.

[emmie]

unbelievable indeed, what is wrong with these mindless morons, can't think what goes through their minds when they do something so thoughtless.