Author Topic: Looters (Read 3790 times)

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #15 on:** January 24, 2007, 06:08:43 pm »

Can anyone tell me how to edit posts when you make mistakes like that?

Thanks.

smurfboy · « **Reply #16 on:** January 24, 2007, 07:19:43 pm »

You have to have reached a certain number of posts before you get an edit button.

smurfboy · « **Reply #17 on:** January 24, 2007, 07:20:16 pm »

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I haven't heard about this - what happened?
Seriously? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6293307.stm[/QUOTE]

Of course seriously - why on earth would I ask otherwise?

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #18 on:** January 24, 2007, 10:08:48 pm »

Quote from: smurfboy

You have to have reached a certain number of posts before you get an edit button.

Thankyou Smurfboy.

goldencup · « **Reply #19 on:** January 24, 2007, 10:19:52 pm »

Velvet my 400/4 was cherry red too.

I haven't seen one for a very long time now.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #20 on:** January 25, 2007, 08:23:59 am »

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Of course seriously - why on earth would I ask otherwise?

I thought maybe you were being sarcastic; it was the headline on all the TV and radio news for 3 days so I was surprised you never heard about it.

kevvosa · « **Reply #21 on:** January 26, 2007, 08:29:22 am »

Smurfs don't have TV's

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #22 on:** January 26, 2007, 09:19:56 am »

I see

Apparently now the shipping company is going to pay for the whole clean up operation (including all the mess the looters made)

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #23 on:** January 26, 2007, 12:49:13 pm »

OK is that really good of the shipping company to pick up the tab or only what they should do under the circumstances?

I'm not sure they should be held responsible for the mess the looters made, but then if the accident hadn't happened there wouldn't have been anything for them to make a mess with, and of course if the shipping company doesn't pay then it will be left to the tax payers of the community which would be completely wrong.

So I say Yay shipping company, and I hope their bill includes extra money for all those hard working people I saw on the news cleaning up those poor birds. What a task that looked. How dedicated they must be.

Cherry_Ripe · « **Reply #24 on:** January 26, 2007, 01:21:30 pm »

Indeed, I wondered if the gesture from the shipping company is any indication of blame as to how the ship came to be on the rocks in the first place.

If the Police had cordoned the area off sooner the looting and the impact of the looting could have been minimised, but if the Police footed some of the bill it would have effectively been up to the taxpayers to pay as well.

It's still easy to find debris from the ship which deposited its load of shredded plastic when it crashed into the cliffs and that was years ago. Shipwrecks are not easy things to clean up.

Velvet Darkness · « **Reply #25 on:** January 26, 2007, 02:06:52 pm »

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Indeed, I wondered if the gesture from the shipping company is any indication of blame as to how the ship came to be on the rocks in the first place.

I wondered that myself. Has anyone actually said why it happened?

I hope they do a proper job, and spend the necessary amount of time on it. A lot of the time they cut corners on these clear ups and although obviously the area never actually gets back to the way it was before, if enough attention to detail is paid right from the start then the final impact can be kept to a minimum.

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Author Topic: Looters (Read 3790 times)