Should they appease the vandals?

[R1Geezer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/ 7338151.stm

[RevFunk]

No

[R1Geezer]

I'm with you Rev. Under "Geezer" law the little barstewards would have their kin hands chopped off.

[daffy654]

Why don't they just make the signs so that they can't be defaced? I don't know how they would do it but there must be a way.

[spaced]

on this occassion R1 I have to agree. Do see why such an old name should be changed just because some chav wants to waste 2 mins of his life spray painting a sign.

Make the sign higher

[Gromit]

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.c... eepicon=true

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/beautifulnorfolk/ 263720007/

[smudge]

Absolutely not!

Why should the village have its name changed, just to suit the 'odd' one or two vandals?

Why not install a hidden CCTV camera? That way, if the little gits aren't wearing a hoodie & are caught, hit them where it hurts most with a hefty fine & make them clean it up!

Oh, & a good boot up the jacksy!

[Quinlad]

Yeah, why don't the locals just install a CCTV camera? Or put it out of reach?

Or alternatively just lighten up a bit?

As for appeasement, the name isn't being changed to suit the vandals. It's being changed because the other residents are kicking up a fuss. If you change the name, you've got exactly the reaction that the vandals were hoping for. It's the classic playground mentality.

[smudge]

I would have agreed to placing the sign higher too, but thought that they may still find a way of climbing up & defacing it!

As I say, I think CCTV is the best way forward.....

[R1Geezer]

Apparently there is a village in Austria called F*ck but they don't have the same problem, they just keep getting the signs arf inched!

[sp1814]

Presumably by British louts.

I don't know what all the fuss is about. Sure - there are some people who will think it amusing to to deface a street sign, but that's all it is...a street sign. No-one would actually think, "Blimey, fancy naming a village that".

There's a street in Manchester famous for gay bars. It's called 'Canal Street'. It is regularly defaced to become 'anal Street'.

I think the locals should accept that there are some 'comedians' who aren't as funny as they think they are.

[Mully79]

I remember a scene in one of the Naked Gun movies, where some kids tried to grafitti a wall or a car or something and it was rigged to spraypaint them back.

Maybe that's the answer!

[lankeela]

Well they could always send the culprits to Scunthorpe.

[smudge]

http://forums.contractoruk.com/general/4517-fu nny-street-names.html

[vehelpfulguy]

They should change the name of their village to Luck, that will stop them.