General Discussion
Vandals are protected
This has been taken from another forum.
Woodman, spare that tree!
The mad axeman of Dawlish will no doubt swing into action before the summer is out. Why? Because the mature trees on the Lawn are not protecting their young. For a start, they have the wrong sort of leaves which obscure the view of the supposedly all-seeing CCTV cameras. Triple-bypass Ted, aka Cllr Hockin, raised the matter with Kev, the in-house copper, at the July meeting of the town council.
Why, asked Ted, had not Kev jumped on his bike and nicked the person who snapped off one the new sapplings on the Lawm? Well said Kev, "the cameras didn't detect the crime because the mature trees with their big leaves are in the way. (They certainly didn't prevent it.)
Clearly, the big trees will have to go or the cameras will have to be ripped out and positioned in a more observing place if law and order is to be maintained and the council save its face. (More great expense.) After all, something has to be done to justify £80,000+ spent on cameras, even if they cannot protect a few spplings costing ten quid each.
Listen carefully and you can hear the chain saw being sharpened. You might even hear Ted saying how disappointed he is with the cameras. Could this be the first sign of a crack in the council's united front on the camera project? Let's hope so.
George Washington
Confirmation that Ted Hockin is alive and well.
Today in the Herald Express, Ted express's his dismay, that the CCTV in Dawlish is not doing what it is supposed to do. Someone snapped off a sappling on the Lawn and no camera spotted it.
Yet Jon Perry aka the Police Inspector of the Teignbridge police force and the town clerk, both claim they are the best thing since sliced bread.
In the dark days of the war, we were fed carrots to help us see in the dark, perhaps somebody ought to feed the cameras carrots to help them see more clearly after dark.
