Cerne Abbas Giant

[mushroom25]

vandalism? or fair comment?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-40187946

[youngmafbog]

It's a prank if no damage but the National Trust seem to think there has been so it is vandalism and anyone found to be involved should be prosecuted to the full extent the law allows.

[fbg40]

Maybe it is a prank, but in my humble opinion a pretty pathetic one. Have the perpetrators nothing better to do ?? The mind boggles.
FBG40

[ludwig]

It's probably just a reference to the fact she'll be standing as the member for Maidenhead.

[Baldric]

Vandalism, but would expect nothing less from anyone stupid enough to (possibly) vote Labour.

[ludwig]

The letters are painted hardboard, so not vandalism. It's all good fun. Let's not begrudge the Corbyn fans a few laughs at this stage. After Thursday they'l be sad and bitter for a minimum 5 years.

[hereIam]

Personally Baldric, I think YOU are the stupid one (and rude) !!

[Baldric]

You seem to have mistaken me for someone who actually gives a ****

[hereIam]

Oo arrogant as well.

[hereIam]

But then you always were.

[gness]

HereIam.....latest thinking is it's a group of Conservatives showing who is standing up for Britain.... Baldric's simply missed that..... :-)

[Peter Pedant]

pranko
some civil servants have no sense of humour
just pick up the painted hardboards

monuments such as this need tending - you need to weed the white bits sort of so saying is being a bit precious

Does anyone remember the rag stunt of the teddy bear head being cut into a chalk hill outside Salisbury in 1968
just before the Idmiston turning
University college of north wales - rag stunt
people had a sense of humour then

The educated young men explained that it was necessary to get a chalk hill and choose one where the grass overlay only extended a few centimetres. High powered geological biological stuff !

[Baldric]

Ludwig, From the Link

The conservation charity was made aware of the incident on Monday morning and sent rangers out to remove the letters and assess the damage.
National Trust countryside manager Rob Rhodes said: "It is a time-consuming waste of our resources as a charity to repair the damage and clean up after such incidents when the money we are given could be spent instead on other conservation projects.
"As a Scheduled Ancient Monument, the giant has the highest archaeological protection and any damage from pegging down boards would be an offence

[Peter Pedant]

erm Theresa may stand as the member for Cerne Abbas ?

(Ok I know it isnt a constituency)

and......
if the evil malefactors and vandals are caught - I hope the punishment is not too .... stiff

[we havent had that one yet have we]

Po faced baldric is right to point out that there are rigid rules to govern his sort of adolescent behaviour....

[Baldric]

Damage to a Scheduled Ancient Monument is taken very seriously.

[Peter Pedant]

blimey knab alert
I better keep my head down

(the knibs are of course those awful vandals)

[mikey4444]

There is no evidence as far as I can see, that anyone has owned up to doing this, let alone Labour supporters.

But here has been a growing wariness about Mrs May, on AB, amongst its Tory supporters...perhaps its disgruntled Tory-but-not-May supporters ?

As long as no actual physical damage has been done, then perhaps we shouldn't get over-excited.

[Old_Geezer]

Vandalism, but since it is simply boards, pretty much a non-issue.

Compare that with the graffiti that seems tolerated these days, presumably because looking like a run down area is what some folk feel comfortable with.

[Baldric]

Read the link OG, they were attached not just placed there

[jno]

the NT seems to be overreacting. I can't see any evidence of vandalism. Just pick up the letters, take them away, and auction them off for Tory party funds.

[Deskdiary]

I'm a Tory voter, and I rather like May.....and yet when I opened the link and saw what had been done, I thought it was bloody hilarious.