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Another weekend, another repair job.

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This bus stop has been smashed every weekend for the last month. Sooner or later it will get taken down and the people who use it (myself included) will not have a bus stop nearby due to a few mindless idiots and their behaviour.

I plan on writing to our local councillor about this!

31st Dec 2007, 13:08 | tags:anti social behaviour

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,councillor phil bateman

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beth says:

bad news

31st Dec 2007, 13:22

Steve says:

I'm no Columbo, but you think that maybe the Police would establish a pattern and wait for them to do it again?

31st Dec 2007, 13:41

James says:

Yes Steve, you'd think so...but they're obviously too busy elsewhere!

There's usually a gaggle of 20 or so teenagers outside the shop that the bus stop is next to on Friday & Saturday nights, and whilst I don't like to generalise, or tar them all with the same (negative) brush that the 'youth' of today have, I'm pretty sure it's not rampaging OAPs who are causing the damage!

31st Dec 2007, 14:04

beth says:

or maybe hide sacks of permanant glo ink ready to explode on impact in the bus shelter..

31st Dec 2007, 14:04

Laszlo Q. V. St-J. Xalieri says:

Looks like a job for Lexan®. There's nothing like a sheet of plexiglass where you weren't expecting it to make a thrown brick bounce back and clock you in the skull....

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31st Dec 2007, 20:06

ookiine says:

Those hooligans!!!!

LOL! Looks like something I might have done in my youth...

31st Dec 2007, 22:22

DocD says:

I got chucked out of school for allegedly doing this as a youth. Case of mistaken identity so got let back in with no apologies (this was a da 80's though). Bugs me as well but public property is always a target

2nd Jan 2008, 00:33

JokerXL says:

Fools.
Can't they set up a (temp) covert camera?
If they keep coming back they'll be easy meat!

20th Jan 2008, 13:35

Turk says:

Had the same situation on my side of birmingham & yes unfortunately they got cheesed off with replacing the glass and removed the shelter altogether!

21st Jan 2008, 15:40

James D Clarke says:

A rather late update - but some weeks after this our local councillor (whose name I included in my tags ;-) ) contacted me and asked if he could use my photos on his website to raise awareness of this issue.

Since then we've not had any problems, and the local police have put up their mobile CCTV camera across the road. Result!

26th Aug 2008, 12:01