Comments on: Vandals attack Gnome Rock

By: rosie

rosie — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:52:39 +0000

A.J. My thoughts entirely!

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:17:49 +0000

That will merely act as a stimulus for further perpetration of such offences.
It would be wise to devote time and effort towards ensuring that the odds of such offences recurring are minimized, thereby ensuring that an already adverse situation is not exacerbated.

Has anyone considered employing correctional (not punitive or retributive) measures for the perpetrators ? I know that they are not inherently ignorant and do not have native criminal propensities, but they are still, to a degree, are morally reprehensible.

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By: A.J.

A.J. — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:16:48 +0000

Or, you could avoid replacing them,and leave the ‘rock’ as nature intended. Problem solved!

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By: becks

becks — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:29:26 +0000

No, don`t give up, make the targets bigger and better to see.
The vandals can`t wait.

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By: kat

kat — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:59:13 +0000

These vandals will by now realise they have upset many folks .
I would ask people to go and clean the area and if anyone has any gnomes looking for a new home paint the up smart and put them back at the rock as a replacement dont let the vandals win.

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By: QueenBee

QueenBee — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:13:58 +0000

I am not sure who you think you are to tell me to get a life. I have noticed on several posts on these forums that you seem to get up a lot of people’s noses and now I can see why.

If my use of the word ‘natural’ caused you such chagrin I shall amend it to ‘some people are just ignorant’ I did not suggest that some people were born to be vandals.

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By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:35:24 +0000

I agree with your thoughtful ideas about the basis of antisocial behaviour. I don’t think people are born to be vandals.

Queen Bee is right about the grammatical error!

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By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:48:56 +0000

Oh, get a life ! Are you another one of those individuals who only examines what one has to say on a superficial level ?

What I am saying if more likely to be the truth as I am acknowledging that ignorance is probably not an innate trait, but something that evolves if an individual spends a prolonged portion of their life in an unfavourable environment- one wherein they develop a personality or world view that causes them to commit dishonourable acts.

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By: QueenBee

QueenBee — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:11:17 +0000

What a load of tosh you write – half of which is impossible to understand. Did you mean to write that it was NOT morally reprehensible? Where in my post did I mention pig-headed anything?

I stand by my comment that some people are ignorant even some educated ones!

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By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:51:04 +0000

I would be disinclined to say that some individuals are ‘naturally’ ignorant- on a superficial level, yes. It’s too simplistic so remark that some people have inherent pig-headed tendencies as the individuals making those remarks know little of the events that have moulded that person into who they are today. Though I am not denying what these people have done is not morally reprehensible, whether they were predetermined by nature to be vandals is at its best questionable.

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By: QueenBee

QueenBee — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:42:29 +0000

Why do you use two different email addresses to post remarks?

Are you trying to be two different people?

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By: QueenBee

QueenBee — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:40:43 +0000

To be honest I didn’t even know this place existed until it was recently highlighted in the Guernsey Press after the police had removed the gnomes. Perhaps if the police had left well alone and the Press had not given it so much publicity the gnomes would be intact.

Vandals have no respect for feelings or property and I imagine they thought it was quite amusing to smash up the gnomes. Some people are just naturally ignorant.

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By: Dot Comma

Dot Comma — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:50:29 +0000

Ed,
Why would juvenile youths (sic) wish to divert inebriated adults?
Were they on traffic patrol?

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By: becks

becks — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:04:19 +0000

Well, what does anyone expect?

Some people set up targets and then publicise the location so that everyone knows where they can have some brick throwing practice.

I know, let`s set it all up again but this time put a barbed wire fence, a concrete 8ft high wall and an exclusion zone of 100 meters around the area patrolled by the Police`s Armoured car (Their chance to justify buying it).

That should do it and the poor little gnomes can sleep safely in their crevasses at night.

Perhaps we could even open it up as a charity event and charge 50p a go. We could give the money to the Gnomeless.

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By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:02:08 +0000

Eh ?

I bet your thinking ‘now you know how I feel when I read your posts’.

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