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Vandals deface dome on Darwen Tower (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Vandals deface dome on Darwen Tower
12:00pm Friday 30th March 2012 in Darwen
By Dan Clough, Reporter
Darwen Town Council mayor Coun Paul Browne
THE dome on Darwen Tower has been vandalised just months after it was put in place.
The tower’s dome blew off during high winds in November 2010.
Apprentice engineers at Darwen metal fabricators WEC designed, produced and replaced the dome free of charge.
But now, the dome has been vandalised, with names and obscenities scratched into the paintwork and marker pen used to write on the windows.
Even a plaque commemorating the donation of the new dome had been written on by the vandals.
A spokesman for WEC said officials will be looking at the damage today to see what can be done.
Darwen Town Council mayor Coun Paul Browne was furious.
He said: “The people who have done this are real scum. It is a disgrace.
“Whoever’s done that wants hauling in front of a magistrate.
“To think young apprentices made this, and it has been defaced by what appears to be young people of this town.
“It is unbelieveable. It is disgusting. I don’t understand what people get out of doing this.”
Kris Mercer, training instructor at the WEC Welding & Engineering Training Academy said: “We are very disappointed that after all the efforts made by young local apprentices in restoring Darwen Tower, people could show so little respect to the local area by vandalizing the new dome.
"It doesn’t really come as a surprise as there was already a lot of graffiti at the top of the tower.
“But it is a shame that it has come to this only two months after it was reopened to the public”
Town councillor Stephen Potter, who is in charge of the newly formed Friends of Darwen Tower group, said: “It is just totally mindless. It is such a shame.
"When you think about all the work and effort that has gone into this and a few mindless morons have wrecked it.”
Couns Browne and Potter have both appealed for anyone with information to report the vandals to the police.
The 900kg traffic grey dome was replaced by a helicopter on Friday, January 13 in a painstaking operation.
It was built by the apprentices at the WEC company as part of their training.
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Comments (42)
12:12pm Fri 30 Mar 12
sean_brfc says...
12:13pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger says...
A day without Call of Duty should have the kids going cold turkey.
Alternatively, a remote gate at the entrance to the tower to be unlocked at daybreak and locked at sunset.
Any scrotes locked in after the sunset will need medical treatment for exposure by the morning.
Just a couple of radical ideas.
12:16pm Fri 30 Mar 12
gutterpress says...
12:20pm Fri 30 Mar 12
happycyclist says...
Things won't change until we vote for a government with the balls to back a zero-tolerance approach to antisocial behaviour with real punishments. It's time for the politically-correct, hand-wringing liberal apologists for miscreants to step aside. Their tags and names shouldn't be that difficult to trace.
12:26pm Fri 30 Mar 12
darwenTower says...
Either they will grow up decent and live to regret it, or they will live their days out as scum.
Either way, the rest of us can't let it get us down or it gives point to what they do. Tidy up after them and be glad we aren't all pointless wastes of space.
12:27pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Darren1951 says...
12:36pm Fri 30 Mar 12
happycyclist says...
12:36pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Parly says...
I’m sure £20 will be enough incentive for some scummy kid to grass up their lifelong mates.
12:44pm Fri 30 Mar 12
notchuffed says...
12:53pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Angusam says...
They will get caught and when they do they justice will be served . Time to face the music as you will be caught.
It should be noted that whoever did this represents a small minority, it was the youth of this town who worked hard to put this in place and I am sure they are equally as eager to find the people responsible.
1:15pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Elsie C says...
They should be shot at birth!
1:28pm Fri 30 Mar 12
MHUK says...
1:30pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger says...
1:41pm Fri 30 Mar 12
notchuffed says...
1:43pm Fri 30 Mar 12
notchuffed says...
It would be quite a Phallic Symbol - there again quite appropriate
1:51pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Dave_P says...
But seriously, there are reasons these people do this sort of thing and I would suggest addressing the cause, like unemployment and poverty for a start.
1:59pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger says...
As previous posts suggest, this has been going on for thousands of years.
It is called lack of respect, showing off and peer pressure.
Simple as !
When we got caught "tagging" desks at school, the punishment was 3 fold.
1. The Pump
2. Letter to parents
3. Spend lunchtimes cleaning desks.
Letter to parents always held most fear for me !
2:30pm Fri 30 Mar 12
A Darener says...
2:30pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Jerzei Balowski says...
Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
2:52pm Fri 30 Mar 12
martinstuartastley says...
3:03pm Fri 30 Mar 12
guinless says...
3:37pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Malthus says...
3:37pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger says...
3:49pm Fri 30 Mar 12
notchuffed says...
Just to help you out remember two comes after one followed by four and then 5.
Also to see if you can get anywhere near to passing, B comes after A followed by C then by D. Good luck, you'll need it
3:51pm Fri 30 Mar 12
notchuffed says...
4:07pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Sad Darwener says...
days.The parents have no respect either!
4:57pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger says...
LREASONS.
That guy gets away with it every time !
7:08pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Jerzei Balowski says...
Sad fact is that man has been on this planet for 200,000 years, and for the first 199,950 of them Darwin's laws of natural selection applied, as they do to any other animal. It's only in the last 50 years that the liberal apologists have got to work, reversing natural selection and giving us a moronic feral underclass, along with the crime-wave they bring. Pity no politicians have the balls to redress the balance.
8:26pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Sister Wendy says...
10:03pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Darrens Delivery Service says...
And I am covinced that 3 does follow 2. Took some finding though. l.o.l.
Let hope that they are caught.
8:59am Sat 31 Mar 12
rovertony says...
And when you say anything to them they run off and tell mummy and daddy who then come round and abuse you as well.
Scum society breeding worse scum.......and I thought this only happened in Burnley!!!!
11:21am Sat 31 Mar 12
CapitaBackHander says...
12:58pm Sat 31 Mar 12
steve18gls says...
1:28pm Sat 31 Mar 12
towerguy says...
1:54pm Sat 31 Mar 12
California Blue says...
11:53am Sun 1 Apr 12
happycyclist says...
1:52pm Sun 1 Apr 12
California Blue says...
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stu12 says...
3:46pm Mon 2 Apr 12
sng165 says...
12:31pm Tue 3 Apr 12
towerguy says...
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Your ferret stinks says...
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