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 Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 11:15am Mon 25 Feb 08 Posted by: Scott, Airdrie on 11:23am Mon 25 Feb 08 It won't be their fault -it'll be the rest of society (and Glasgow Council) not giving the poor dears enough to do. Posted by: Pete, Glasgow on 11:52am Mon 25 Feb 08 whipping's too good for them, bring back national service, I blame the parents, cut off their knackers, etc **** shame - I'm a big fan pof public art. Did a bit of community work in the gorbals last year, redeveloping community space amongst other things. Posted by: jim, Glasgow on 11:58am Mon 25 Feb 08 Theres a perfect example of parents not doing enough,The Boy that was killed by laying in middle of road, Now what was a 15 yr old doing out at that time anyway.My heart goes out to his parents,But this is an example of what they really get up to.Parents neeed to take more to do with kids. Posted by: Meep, Shawlands on 12:27pm Mon 25 Feb 08 Why is anyone surprised about this? Any local gorbals ned will see this has something to brag about. And the fact that £1 million was spent on a piece of art in an area full of deprivation would just antagonise the long term residents. Daft. Posted by: FMJ, Glasgow on 12:28pm Mon 25 Feb 08 Send the vandals out to do charity work in a remote part of Malawi or somewhere similar - a few months with no TV, video games, mollycoddling social workers, sportswear shops or shopping malls to hang about outside should do them the world of good. Given the toughness of day-to-day life, I also doubt the locals would think much of their whining and excuses for their behaviour. Posted by: BM, Glasgow on 12:42pm Mon 25 Feb 08 Posted by: BM, Glasgow on 12:42pm Mon 25 Feb 08 Posted by: roor06, glasgow on 1:58pm Mon 25 Feb 08 Posted by: jrb, Glasgow on 2:07pm Mon 25 Feb 08 I take it the area was covered by hi-tech cctv,so it shouldn't be difficult to identify those responsible.a £100,000 Of damage done I hope this is reflected in any sentence handed out. Posted by: gordyboy, glasgow on 2:08pm Mon 25 Feb 08 you can spend as much money as you want in trying to create a lovely enviroment , these people have evolved over many years to be the anti social dregs of humanity and please keep your p'c comments to yourself or if you feel the need to spout off you go and walk through the gorbals tonight and then come back and say how lovely the young men where when they offered to carry my mobile phone and give me free plastic surgery . Posted by: Eh?, Glasgow on 2:20pm Mon 25 Feb 08 A wekness in the glass? Is this not surely a defect which the manufacturer should be made to fix. Still that's beside the point. There seems to be a mentality of destroy in these schemes. I'm sure some of them appreciate the art but the primordal urge to destory gets the better of them. What causes that? Genes, lack of things to do, upbringing, environment, lack of a positiuve outlook? I'm at a loss to give any solutions to combat pointless vandalism, however the poster above on sedning them to Malawi may have struck on something. Such a trip would broaden their minds and give them perspecytive on life and more importantly their lives. It would also remove them from their petty territorial squabbles. I bet that would give hugely significant results when they returned. Posted by: Eric Flack, Drumchapel on 3:23pm Mon 25 Feb 08 Make the parents pay. Or perhaps bring back a public exhibition by putting the kids in stocks and leaving them for 2 hours. Better still would be to ship the kids out to a hospital or school in Malawi or somewhere like that for 3 months. These people will never appreciate the better things in life. They just want to destroy. Posted by: GAW, Glasgow UK on 4:52pm Mon 25 Feb 08 A certain demographic in Glasgow exhibiting mindless behaviour and destroying things meant to brighten up their neighborhood? Never! Its all they are good for - destroying things and stabbing one another. Posted by: BhoyWunda, East Kilbride on 5:27pm Mon 25 Feb 08 Posted by: tam-m, southside on 6:52pm Mon 25 Feb 08 some wee s-h-i-t-e stole my doormat last week and today came in from work they had taken my plants from the stairhead window.ps they left the soil on the landing for me to clean up nice of them.not quite in the £100,000 of damage league but whats the point trying to make your surroundings nice for people when this crap goes on no wonder people just shut their doors at night and dont give a s-h-i-t- about anything else. Posted by: tam-m, southside on 7:12pm Mon 25 Feb 08 sorry this is off topic but-- A TEENAGER who climbed into a ladies toilet cubicle in a nightclub and sexually assaulted a woman has been jailed for 18 months. Mazhar Naseem, 18, will be supervised for two years after he is released and will be placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years. Sheriff Nigel Morrison said: "The offence to which you pled guilty is a serious sexual assault. "It was committed while you were on probation for an offence with a sexual element. "I consider I will have to impose a custodial sentence.".....18 months is this a joke he will serve 12 months and this is for sexual attack now you know why the neds dont care about destruction of property they will perhaps get a £30 fine if caught or the way the law works £30 compensation... Posted by: tam-m, southside on 7:15pm Mon 25 Feb 08 ps--The woman was left screaming and in "a very distressed state" and has been traumatised since the incident, the court was told. His sentence will be backdated to October when he was taken into custody. Posted by: I hear your pain, me,me,me on 8:23am Tue 26 Feb 08 I have said this before, if you steal money then your sentence will always be greater than if you commit an assault on somebody sexual or otherwise..It has always been this way & it is sad.. Posted by: GEORGE GEO, Glasgow on 8:50am Tue 26 Feb 08 Call the hanging figure art! It’s embarrassing - a total waste of money - and some of our pensioners are freezing in their own homes. Posted by: belcher, parkbench 36 on 12:42pm Tue 26 Feb 08 Posted by: A V Lowe, Glasgow on 3:50pm Tue 26 Feb 08 Vandals usually have a happy knack of deflating the pomposity of municipal mysogeny, a vast sum spent on the decoration whilst the cake is short on ingredients. The truly intellingent administrations (councillors and officers) realising that this is merely the devil making work for idle hands move to be pro-active and find tasks which provide a good return for the community and at the same time deliver self fulfillment to the idle hands, to take a pride in. Remember that Grafitti on the wall is a fantastic mural in someone else's eyes and the demolished brick planters are an the unco-ordinated attempt to soften brutal hard landscaping. Posted by: jonny bond, glasgow on 9:25pm Tue 26 Feb 08 I thought the vandals sacked rome not the gorballs but wasnt it the council that sacked the gorballs. They trendified it with impressive buildings and artworks and to an extent it worked in that for those few blocks the place became like a city home outside the city for the reasonably well off. Unfortunately the next scheme over that has not been redone and has nothing even closely resemling artwork to vandalise is full of losers who have never worked a day that they didnt get cash under the counter at the end. Well what are the neds supposed to do but go where the artwork is to vandalise it.
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