In the early hours of this morning Vandals smashed nearly every bus shelter between Padiham and Burnley. It’s going to cost thousands to repair.

Someone must know those who were involved. Do the right thing and turn them in!

Peasants.

Some residents and business owners on the main will probably have CCTV of the culprits walking along.

A shambles that they will now not be available nor fit for purpose for those thst need them to get about their daily lives.

Some A¿5€holes about ...

Spotted this earlier, there was at least 5 from padiham to town

****** me right off

On a “smaller scale” but equally as mindless and moronic, the shelter at Brierfield Train Station was smashed last week

We all know though nothing will be done about it, slap on the wrist nappy rash as a baby made him angry through life etc etc and us poor sods who work or use public transport will pay for it.

Hopefully the culprits were caught on dashcam or CCTV. The shelters were all new and were to be fitted with digital displays for arrivals. Some senseless Stupid buggers about.

Wonder if they got the bus between each stop?

There is a few Bus Shelters smashed on Accrington Road, Done last night!.

Hard to work out what a scrote gets out of doing something like this

Make the punishment fit the crime, send them to Ewood.

Chop their hands off, little scrotes.

It’s just sickening when things like this happen

There is no credible deterrent for the mindless morons. The namby pamby liberalists who shout 'foul' at anything approaching a proper punishment have allowed some of society to run around doing what they like. Padiham has some real scrotes wreaking havoc around parts of the town.

If they are kids, it will be a slap on the wrist, if caught. There is a reluctance to criminalise them. A visit from the police and told not to do it again. Pitiful really, because they only end up doing far worse crimes while believing they can get away with anything.

Maybe they should have their faces put on large billboards around town so people can see what they look like. But being stupid they would probably like that.

JohnMac wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:04 pm

There is no credible deterrent for the mindless morons. The namby pamby liberalists who shout 'foul' at anything approaching a proper punishment have allowed some of society to run around doing what they like. Padiham has some real scrotes wreaking havoc around parts of the town.

It was like that way back in the 70s

I wonder what sentence they’ll get !

beddie wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:31 pm

I wonder what sentence they’ll get !

Made to Travel on the Bus for a Full week....that should be sufficient.

tim_noone wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:45 pm

Made to Travel on the Bus for a Full week....that should be sufficient.

Tied to the back of the bus with 1m of slack and told to keep up for a week would be more preferable.

I drove in to town and noticed everyone smashed from Gannow top but even as far as the prestige building.
Burnley makes great efforts to improve the town and its reputation and then this happens! No one however appeared to be cleaning up and repairing. Seemed to be a deliberate campaign of destruction.

JohnMac wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:04 pm

There is no credible deterrent for the mindless morons. The namby pamby liberalists who shout 'foul' at anything approaching a proper punishment have allowed some of society to run around doing what they like. Padiham has some real scrotes wreaking havoc around parts of the town.

When was the last time “namby pamby liberalists” were in power?

Bring back hanging. Some of these **** bags deserve the final solution. Seriously I hope they catch them jail them and make them pay.

claret2018 wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:57 pm

When was the last time “namby pamby liberalists” were in power?

Its the judiciary and sometimes the CPS which are too soft on crime as well as successive governments.

beddie wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:31 pm

I wonder what sentence they’ll get !

They'll probably get a free Day Pass for Alton Towers.

Billy Balfour wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:15 pm

They'll probably get a free Day Pass for Alton Towers.

That would be a start

No ******* about, a 5 year stretch for each of the scrotes.

I'd bring back the stocks

Makes me think it is someone with a beef against the bus company, given the wide range of the damage maybe a car was used.

Terrier wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 5:06 pm

Makes me think it is someone with a beef against the bus company, given the wide range of the damage maybe a car was used.

More likely a hammer the disgusting mindless morons

Sounds like potential Prime Minister material to me.

Not sure what the value of damage is but if the damage is less than 5k then the culprits can only get a maximum 3 months custody. admit it at the first opportunity and get 33 percent credit. thats down to 2 months, then you serve half of that so you have 1 month to serve. you will be out in 14-21 days on Tag. Maybe less. If exceeded 5k then its a max of 4 years. Very unusual do get that long as that is right at the top end of the guidelines.

Given the spread of the damage, best part of 4 miles, unlikely to be kids/teenagers.
Disgruntled passenger or former employee perhaps?

JohnMac wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:04 pm

There is no credible deterrent for the mindless morons. The namby pamby liberalists who shout 'foul' at anything approaching a proper punishment have allowed some of society to run around doing what they like. Padiham has some real scrotes wreaking havoc around parts of the town.

Yeah, it’s not like vandals have been around since, I dunno, the 5th century or something.

JohnMac wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:04 pm

There is no credible deterrent for the mindless morons. The namby pamby liberalists who shout 'foul' at anything approaching a proper punishment have allowed some of society to run around doing what they like. Padiham has some real scrotes wreaking havoc around parts of the town.

Tremendous stuff. No condemnation of those who did it, just rage at some imagined enemy.

Glass everywhere. I've often wondered when this happens why they don't replace it with that really tough
Perspex-type plastic stuff.
Unless there's some technical reason they can't.
Would seem the common sense thing to do.

ElectroClaret wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:51 pm

Glass everywhere. I've often wondered when this happens why they don't replace it with that really tough
Perspex-type plastic stuff.
Unless there's some technical reason they can't.
Would seem the common sense thing to do.

It is safety glass which is designed to break into very small pieces. Perspex scratches, and I would guess is much harder to clean spray paint off for example.

They need to replace it with the stuff the windows of the police observation box at Ewood was made out of. Some guy with a slab of Darwen End corrugated iron roof was having a right go at smashing that with no success

Rileybobs wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:56 pm

It is safety glass which is designed to break into very small pieces. Perspex scratches, and I would guess is much harder to clean spray paint off for example.

Yes and dicks think burning holes in it or scratching with a key is also funny

Billy Balfour wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 3:15 pm

They'll probably get a free Day Pass for Alton Towers.

Even better if they were forced to ride the attractions without the safety bar on.

gawthorpe_view wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:12 pm

Given the spread of the damage, best part of 4 miles, unlikely to be kids/teenagers.
Disgruntled passenger or former employee perhaps?

Poirot......I'm going for the employee who hasnt been paid for building them may be.

The Roman Empire partly collapsed because of the 'Love and Peace,Man' of Christianity and the first vandals of that who succeeded.

Whether the conversion of The Roman Empire was a military subversion strategy of an enemy...

... These things have been going on for years same thing same story same place same?

One on Manchester Road has been damaged too.

Never understood vandalism.

I kinda get graffiti, tagging, gangs and so on, even understanding that grey area before it’s street art - there’s a discussion there at least. Even littering I get, to some extent - some people are lazy or just don’t care about the society they live in… vandalism is just moronic though. It actually takes effort. Weird

TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 6:47 pm

Tremendous stuff. No condemnation of those who did it, just rage at some imagined enemy.

What a surprise.

JohnMac wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 2:04 pm

There is no credible deterrent for the mindless morons. The namby pamby liberalists who shout 'foul' at anything approaching a proper punishment have allowed some of society to run around doing what they like. Padiham has some real scrotes wreaking havoc around parts of the town.

Most towns do if not all padiham is no different but you notice it more because you probably live there or visit there often, I agree regarding the punishments, people who vandalise & wreck things should be forced to put it right, the liberals have a lot to answer for with being too soft regarding punishments, I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again the taxpayers & members of the general public need input on deciding punishments, small scale offences could be decided by a small committee elected representing any said town, for major offences eg murder you ask the nation.

I’ve heard X Factor is finishing Jakub. Now is the time to pitch your idea to the bosses at ITV.
Could be huge.

Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 09, 2021 8:18 pm

I’ve heard X Factor is finishing Jakub. Now is the time to pitch your idea to the bosses at ITV.
Could be huge.

It’s nothing like that, you are trying to ridicule & dramatise a suggestion, good evening.

What better way to ask the nation than on prime time tv.
How else would you do it? Like an election, those cost a lot of money.
Just think how much we can charge for a text vote.
Vote A for ten years.
Vote B for twenty years.
Vote C for The Running Man punishment.