Tis a Tuesday (post Bank Holiday) morning and time, methinks, to award another of my prestigious and internationally famous "Prats of The Week" Awards.This week it goes to Norwich City Council, for their fuddy duddy attitude to a memorial created by Kevin Edwards in Earlham Cemetery for his brother Darren.
The memorial consists of a bench on a bed of pebbles. Initially there were concerns that the bench did not comply with council guidelines wrt memorials. However, the issue that is sticking in the craw of the council is the use of pebbles as bedding.
The council worries that the pebbles may be picked up by vandals and thrown, hence they want the pebbles removed.
However, the pebbles have been there for a couple of months and no one has picked them up for throwing.
Seemingly the regulatory services team from the council are working with Mr Edwards to resolve the issue wrt the loose pebbles.
Isn't this a bit fuddy duddy?
The dead will not notice if a few pebbles are thrown.
Wouldn't this council, and indeed other councils, be better spending their time checking for loose paving slabs etc in city centres, which are the missile of choice of yobs?
I live in Brighton and wonder what Norwich City Council would say about the humongous number of pebbles on our beach!
Norwich City Council, well meaning, but well deserving Prats of The Week.
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Rather than removing pebbles so that vandals cannot throw them, why not remove the vandals so that the pebbles won't be thrown?
ReplyDeleteAnother case of the majority suffering for the behaviour of the few.
"I live in Brighton and wonder what Norwich City Council would say about the humongous number of pebbles on our beach!"
ReplyDeleteNo doubt the beaches would be closed as an obvious threat to health and safety. In addition to the pebbles, there's the sea to contend with. Too frightening for words!
This is the same council who have left the War Memorial opposite their bunker (Oh sorry City Hall) in a state of disgraceful dis-repair for years, while they claim that there isn't any money to pay for the refurbishment that was started, but not finished. And yet they managed to find around £1M to waste on a bid for "Unitary Status"
ReplyDeleteNanny must appoint an EU approved pebble safety inspector. Only pebbles approved by the EU and nanny may be placed anywhere on council land with a permit(fee payable to nanny) required before such pebbles are supplied.
ReplyDeleteHi vis vest pebble monitors must be in place 24 hours a day and warning signs in 85 langauges posted around the pebbles.
"Tonk. said...
ReplyDeleteRather than removing pebbles so that vandals cannot throw them, why not remove the vandals so that the pebbles won't be thrown?"
We could always corral the vandals and throw pebbles at them. Public stoning of feral yobs....now that's an appealing thought.
phopoTonk. said...
ReplyDelete"Rather than removing pebbles so that vandals cannot throw them, why not remove the vandals so that the pebbles won't be thrown?
Another case of the majority suffering for the behaviour of the few."
I couldn't agree with you more, Tonk, but there is a fat chance of it happening, because that approach is the common sense approach, and it is my experience that those in local government do not possess any common sense! Another problem is that today's police are "too busy" i.e not interested in tackling real criminals, preferring to deal with petty matters and victimise law abiding citizens who have the timerity to attempt to deal with the matter themselves. (Then the police wonder why the public in general no longer have the respect for them they once had).
Black Sea said... (in response to Ken's observation that he lives in Brighton and wonders what Norwich City Council would say about the humongous number of pebbles on his beach:
"No doubt the beaches would be closed as an obvious threat to health and safety. In addition to the pebbles, there's the sea to contend with. Too frightening for words!"
and Anonymous said...
"Nanny must appoint an EU approved pebble safety inspector. Only pebbles approved by the EU and nanny may be placed anywhere on council land with a permit(fee payable to nanny) required before such pebbles are supplied.
Hi vis vest pebble monitors must be in place 24 hours a day and warning signs in 85 langauges posted around the pebbles."
For goodness sake, you two, don't make suggestions like that: some council jobsworth might read this and decide to follow your 'advice'!
microdave said...
This is the same council who have left the War Memorial opposite their bunker (Oh sorry City Hall) in a state of disgraceful dis-repair for years, while they claim that there isn't any money to pay for the refurbishment that was started, but not finished. And yet they managed to find around £1M to waste on a bid for "Unitary Status"
Typical, but what would you expect? They have to get their priorities right, and their priorities are not those of their plebs, er, sorry, council tax payers.
Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells said...
"Tonk. said...
Rather than removing pebbles so that vandals cannot throw them, why not remove the vandals so that the pebbles won't be thrown?"
'We could always corral the vandals and throw pebbles at them. Public stoning of feral yobs....now that's an appealing thought.'
It is rather!