They say bad luck comes in threes. Can l amend that slightly to say that three negative things have been noticed and experienced by me, which have left me feeling a little depressed in terms of the actions of my fellow humankind.
Last night, motoring back from Bristol on the A46, a speeding car overtook us and cut in. Immediately, something flew into the air. It had hit an unsuspecting Muntjac deer and lost its front number plate in the process.
It’s horrible to watch any living creature be killed in such a way. I wish him or her bad karma.
Then today, in Laura Place, another foaming episode involving the one fountain we have in this city of waters!!
The plastic bottle of dishwashing up liquid was left on the rim of the fountain’s bowl. Surely the police could extract fingerprints from that?
Oh, it’s ever so clever/funny and so original!? They obviously don’t stop to think for a minute about the damage it does to the fountain’s pump. If that needs replacing, we ratepayers foot the bill.
It’s also ammunition for those who think the Laura Place fountain should be filled with earth and geraniums to prevent this from happening again. Don’t get me going on our city’s lack of imagination in celebrating its springs, hot and cold.
Then, back in Larkhall, someone has been spreading pink paint over the name plate on a tiny lane, which reminds us that Larkhall had a spa too. This was the site – Spa Lane.
Do we blame school holidays? Are the kids so bored already? Or should we look elsewhere for our mindless vandalism?
Lack of policing would never happen in my days when the police were on every estate in the City. In my 83 years as a true Bathonian I have seen the changing Face of Bath. Certainly not for the better shame on the Councils since 1942.
I’d rather police better spent their time tackling real crime rather than chasing down the culprits of a minor and entirely temporary piece of “vandalism” (barely that at all). What was that about tax payers?
I can not understand why they don’t have a camera close to the fountain. Like you it upsets me too. Nicola @ larkhall
As a child, in the 1950s & ‘60s, attending Saturday morning cinema in the old Odeon, we were enjoined (in song) to be ‘Good citizens when we grow up and champions of the free’. Good citizens don’t behave like that and freedom is, more often than not, abused in the modern world. But I have no answer to it; I just find myself appalled that such pointless behaviour is rife.
Mindless vandalism is really depressing.