Maybe we should try this out at Dudhope?
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THE THURSDAY ANGRYEDITORIAL:
It has been strongly rumoured that Finlathen skatepark is now to ringed-in by a totally unnecessary metre-an-a-half high fence, which is mainly designed toprop up the public image of a local politician-wanna-be. A jerk who, incidentally,was actually kicked out of all the politicalgroups in the area for being a first-class bell-end.
This fence is SUPPOSEDLY meant to stop children from randomly rolling around all over the shop,and thusly into the road 20 metres away… (as if)… and getting hurt by speeding drivers who don’t see them in time.
… this fence will of course not do anything to ‘increase safety’ but will in fact make it both:
A. Harder to SEE kids approaching the road because of the wall of steel it presents at an angle (look at any playpark fence from an angle and you’ll see how difficult it is to see through it.)
and
B. FAR more difficult for the smaller kids who visit the place to escape from thevarious “thugs” from various nearby schemes who come and cause hassle / beat-up little kids.
Question: If the only gate out of the skateparkis blocked by violent chav-idiots,where do the little kids go?
Answer: To hospital.
The place was designed to be OPEN and freely accessable… not caged-in like an animal pen.
A big [very sarcastic] ‘thank you’toa certain MrPetrie for putting his own warped political schemings before the genuine safety of the local community.
If you are a local skater / biker, please feel free to call up the’The Hub’ – library/ community centreon Pitkerro Road, Telephone438646and ASK FOR A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ‘Community Safety Panel’ for Linlathen,tell’em what you think.
Heck… maybe you think this is a good thing.
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