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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.
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"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.
Comments(42)
louderfasterlonger
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12:13pm Fri 30 Mar 12
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.
gutterpress
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12:16pm Fri 30 Mar 12
happycyclist
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12:20pm Fri 30 Mar 12
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.
darwenTower
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12:26pm Fri 30 Mar 12
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.
Darren1951
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12:27pm Fri 30 Mar 12
happycyclist
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12:36pm Fri 30 Mar 12
darwenTower wrote:Brilliant comment. A ray of hope that has cheered me up. Thanks.
We live among scum. It's a sad fact of life.
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.
Parly
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12:36pm Fri 30 Mar 12
I’m sure £20 will be enough incentive for some scummy kid to grass up their lifelong mates.
notchuffed
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12:44pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger wrote:The Alex and Shanna are quite distinct but for the other character you mention I thought best to clear up your puzzlement on the other. To me this must be the famous 'Kilroy wuz here'. This Kilroy gets everywhere, seen many times in WW1 and 2 also in such diverse places from the Great Pyramid, Tibet and the Great Wall of China. I even saw written on my missus's backside once, of course she's now my ex.
Publish details and we'll quiz our kids..... removal of their x-box till they tell us who ALEX and SHANNON are and also what looks like FITZROY. 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.
Angusam
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12:53pm Fri 30 Mar 12
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.
Elsie C
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1:15pm Fri 30 Mar 12
They should be shot at birth!
MHUK
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1:28pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger
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1:30pm Fri 30 Mar 12
notchuffed wrote:I do believe you're right.... we've outed Banksie, now time to out this old Kilroy guy... he's been at it far too long.
louderfasterlonger wrote:The Alex and Shanna are quite distinct but for the other character you mention I thought best to clear up your puzzlement on the other. To me this must be the famous 'Kilroy wuz here'. This Kilroy gets everywhere, seen many times in WW1 and 2 also in such diverse places from the Great Pyramid, Tibet and the Great Wall of China. I even saw written on my missus's backside once, of course she's now my ex.
Publish details and we'll quiz our kids..... removal of their x-box till they tell us who ALEX and SHANNON are and also what looks like FITZROY. 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.
notchuffed
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1:41pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger wrote:LOL. D you think it could be the Duke of Edinburgh? He's been around a long time and from some of his humorous comments it could be him ironically popping them up when least expected?
notchuffed wrote:I do believe you're right.... we've outed Banksie, now time to out this old Kilroy guy... he's been at it far too long.louderfasterlonger wrote: Publish details and we'll quiz our kids..... removal of their x-box till they tell us who ALEX and SHANNON are and also what looks like FITZROY. 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.The Alex and Shanna are quite distinct but for the other character you mention I thought best to clear up your puzzlement on the other. To me this must be the famous 'Kilroy wuz here'. This Kilroy gets everywhere, seen many times in WW1 and 2 also in such diverse places from the Great Pyramid, Tibet and the Great Wall of China. I even saw written on my missus's backside once, of course she's now my ex.
notchuffed
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1:43pm Fri 30 Mar 12
MHUK wrote:Are you thinking of putting it on top of one of those big onion things dotted around Blackburn?
Move the tower to Blackburn,a much nicer place.
It would be quite a Phallic Symbol - there again quite appropriate
Dave_P
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1:51pm Fri 30 Mar 12
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.
louderfasterlonger
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1:59pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Dave_P wrote:Are you seriously considering that unemployment and poverty is the cause....
why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all?
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.
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 !
A Darener
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2:30pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Jerzei Balowski
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2:30pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Dave_P wrote:Yet another apologist who thinks that people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions.
why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all? 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.
Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
martinstuartastley
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2:52pm Fri 30 Mar 12
guinless
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3:03pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Jerzei Balowski wrote:well that should be about 3/4 of darwen then good idea
Dave_P wrote:Yet another apologist who thinks that people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions.
why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all? 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.
Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
Malthus
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3:37pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Jerzei Balowski wrote:Excellent post.
Dave_P wrote:Yet another apologist who thinks that people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions.
why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all? 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.
Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
louderfasterlonger
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3:37pm Fri 30 Mar 12
A Darener wrote:Ahhh but.... Arthur Conan Doyle got away with it because he blamed it on the fairies at the bottom of his garden !
I stand to be corrected but I think Sir Arthur Conan Doyle scratched his name into his desk at Stonyhurst Collage. He went on to great things. Not that I am condoning the vandalism.
notchuffed
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3:49pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Jerzei Balowski wrote:So going off your comment you are aged about 12 and yet to have your test with all your equipment still intact for the next 4 years but counting.
Dave_P wrote: why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all? 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.Yet another apologist who thinks that people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions. Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
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
notchuffed
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3:51pm Fri 30 Mar 12
louderfasterlonger wrote:Which fairies were they? Those two on Coronation Street or the ones on Emmerdale?
A Darener wrote: I stand to be corrected but I think Sir Arthur Conan Doyle scratched his name into his desk at Stonyhurst Collage. He went on to great things. Not that I am condoning the vandalism.Ahhh but.... Arthur Conan Doyle got away with it because he blamed it on the fairies at the bottom of his garden !
Sad Darwener
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4:07pm Fri 30 Mar 12
days.The parents have no respect either!
louderfasterlonger
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4:57pm Fri 30 Mar 12
LREASONS.
That guy gets away with it every time !
Jerzei Balowski
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7:08pm Fri 30 Mar 12
notchuffed wrote:Well I hope you never end up on one of the planes I write Flight Control software for every day, cos if I am as stupid as you make out then your chances of getting to the other end wouldn't look too clever, would they ?
Jerzei Balowski wrote:So going off your comment you are aged about 12 and yet to have your test with all your equipment still intact for the next 4 years but counting. 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 itDave_P wrote: why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all? 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.Yet another apologist who thinks that people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions. Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
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.
Sister Wendy
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8:26pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Darrens Delivery Service
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10:03pm Fri 30 Mar 12
Sister Wendy wrote:Just do some reserch online.
I always thought that 3 followed 2, not 4!!!!
And I am covinced that 3 does follow 2. Took some finding though. l.o.l.
Let hope that they are caught.
rovertony
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8:59am Sat 31 Mar 12
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!!!!
CapitaBackHander
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11:21am Sat 31 Mar 12
steve18gls
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12:58pm Sat 31 Mar 12
gutterpress wrote:Totally agree !!
Blame it on crap education, no parental or school discipline, slap-on-the-wrist punishment, all the fault of successive governments over the last 40 years.
towerguy
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1:28pm Sat 31 Mar 12
California Blue
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1:54pm Sat 31 Mar 12
Jerzei Balowski wrote:Kind of like this but I'd take it further, everybody sterilised at birth and you have to apply for the reversal kinda like a driving test CBR check. If all your personal and social responsibilities are in order you get the reversal. So if your unemployed with a criminal record and sit on your doorstep drinking Stella during the day when it's sunny your lazy arse genes will eventual die out.
Dave_P wrote:Yet another apologist who thinks that people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions.
why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all? 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.
Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
happycyclist
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11:53am Sun 1 Apr 12
California Blue wrote:Gets my vote. Allowing scrotes to breed challenges the intelligence of the human race.
Jerzei Balowski wrote:Kind of like this but I'd take it further, everybody sterilised at birth and you have to apply for the reversal kinda like a driving test CBR check. If all your personal and social responsibilities are in order you get the reversal. So if your unemployed with a criminal record and sit on your doorstep drinking Stella during the day when it's sunny your lazy arse genes will eventual die out.
Dave_P wrote:Yet another apologist who thinks that people shouldn't be held responsible for their own actions.
why don't we stand them all up against a wall and shoot them all? 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.
Give people IQ tests at age 16, then sterilise them if they are too stupid to breed.
California Blue
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1:52pm Sun 1 Apr 12
stu12
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12:46pm Mon 2 Apr 12
MHUK wrote:nicer ha id rather it go to burnley
Move the tower to Blackburn,a much nicer place.
sng165
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3:46pm Mon 2 Apr 12
towerguy
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12:31pm Tue 3 Apr 12
Your ferret stinks
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1:10pm Tue 3 Apr 12
Twinsmumbeccy
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11:44am Wed 4 Apr 12
sean_brfc says...
12:12pm Fri 30 Mar 12