KesMAIL

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The new mayor of Keswick has had enough. Witness the front page of September’s KesMAIL, Keswick’s local council newsletter:

The success of the scheme to help visiting motorists avoid parking fines by making parking discs more readily available took a setback last week as vandals wrecked the prototype perspex holder located adjacent to the Museum and Park entrance.

Said Mayor Roger Purkiss, “I can only assume this was done by people (young people?) who seem not to understand the value of other people’s property. It would be crass of me to suggest that justice would be served by my breaking a window at the home of the culprit so I’ll not go that route. Unfortunately this is symptomatic of our times and the sooner adults revert to the maxim that children should be seen and not heard the better.

“Only a couple of weeks ago young people were seen to be damaging the bowling green and when approached were heard to say, ‘You can’t touch me—I’ll tell them you touched my willy’. This prevailing attitude is not welcome anywhere, but especially in Keswick where we expect more of our young people. Inevitably it is the minority which spoils it for the majority, but there you have it.”

Comments

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I find it rather touching that in Keswick they're still using the word "willy". Can't they just placate the youngsters with Kendal's Mint Cake?

Oh god. There I go again.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

I still have yet to have Kendal's Mint Cake. I continue to be gutted about this fact.

[randy-gibbons.livejournal.com]

For the same effect, suck on a polo, then eat a sugar lump.

[nja.livejournal.com]

People in Keswick expect more than just touching a young person's willy?