to think that some of the people on the news are abit "sad"

[2shoes]

some woman was just interviewed about the weston supermare pier fire. she said she was "heart broken"
ffs ok so maybe it is sad to see a lovely building in flames but heartbroken
she was in tears as well.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

yy, I saw that earlier.

Blonde lady?

I did snigger.

[2shoes]

so glad it wasn't just me,

[RusselBrussel]

Yes, have just seen that too! She had real tears too!!

I can sort of see it from the point of view that she said there was 'nothing here now', it must be awful to see the mealticket for your town destroyed. Especially with recession looming.

But to actually cry is a bit 'sad', I am with you on that one!

[AnotherFineMess]

Oh, meanies!

Maybe she has had some very special times there, like being proposed to, taking her PFB for their first seaside outing...

Maybe her grandparents had met there and she wouldn't exist if it wasn't for that pier...

Maybe she had something very valuable hidden under a pierplank...

Maybe she worked there and has now lost her job...

[PeaMcLean]

I'm sort of with AFM, and to be fair, there's not a lot in Weston.

I could see the smoke from Cardiff this morning.

[Rachmumoftwo]

You meanies- it is very sad! An iconic building has burned down, one that is special to many people, from WSM and further afield. Not to mention the detrimental effect it will have on trade in the town where the pier was the main attraction.

[2shoes]

of course if she had said "oh my dh proposed there" or some heartwarming tale, i would get it, but she didn't just how sad she was type thing.

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

But she was blardy crying, soppy woman.

I am a meanie.

[solidgoldbrass]

Well, the news crew probably went looking for a hysterical buckethead: they are not hard to find. (They could have come here and dug around in the In the News thread to find a whole pool of people with nothing better to do than fill their knickers over stuff that's nothing to do with them.)

[MaryAnnSingleton]

actually I can empathise with heartbroken pier lady - I cried when Concorde flew over my house for the last time

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

I will make an exception for Concorde. Stood on the road at Portishead, shivering, as she went over.

[PeaMcLean]

Cried at an aeroplane???? And you think crying at a pier is weird?

[BoysAreLikeDogs]

[cadelaide]

AnotherFineMess "Maybe she had something very valuable hidden under a pierplank..."

ROFL

This pier fire thingy is not terribly far away from me. I thought I WAS ALONE IN FINDING THE (sorry caps) responses a bit.....well....OTT. Should have known I'd find a more earthy approach on MN.

[cadelaide]

Nobody died, after all. In local chat forums I've been reading words like "horrific" and "devastated".

[Anglepoise]

I was genuinely sad when a tree in my parents' garden blew down. I was not alone!

On the plus side, it made a nice big space for a marquee for our wedding

People get attached to daft stuff.

[cadelaide]

Now a tree I can understand

[LittleBella]

People are upset that a place where they have happy memories and is part of their mental furniter, has gone up in flames.

I still feel sad every time I go past the building that used to be Jones and Higgins in Peckham Rye. It's a part of my past that isn't there anymore. It's where a roll of linoleum fell on me and I got an ice lolly as a reward. I felt sad when the Italian restaurant in New Cross closed down, when the Synagogue turned into a Kingdom Hall and when the cinemas in Lewisham shut. It signified that the world had moved on and shunted my memories into the past. It is sad when that happens.

So yes, on the whole I think you are being a bit harsh.

[Chocolateteapot]

I have memories of Weston. When I was 5 I lost my parents on the beach and ended up the lost children's place on the seafront where Dad found me.

Then a few years ago in a post natal moment I persuaded DH it would be a good idea to move there, only to find that someone had been murdered in the park next door. Then last summer we narrowly missed being in a bank in the town centre when it was held up by armed gunmen.

Weston has 11% of the Uk's rehab places along with a rubbish council who have failed miserably to get the Tropicana redeveloped in goodness knows how many years, so I can see why someone might cry.

Actually it is sad as I think it has been gradually improving over the last few years and the loss of the pier will be a big blow to the town.

[booge]

Weston is rubbish, the pier was an overgrown amusement arcade, good riddance, perhaps they can use the insurance money to rebuild something better.

[MaryAnnSingleton]

I was really upset when my dead silver birch tree had to be cut down...I still have a piece of it in my shed

[southeastastra]

i keep thinking, insurance job.

[2shoes]

oh come on, the lady never said anything about it holding treasured memories, if she had I could have understood,
tree's are different as theya re living things.