..to think that the London Marathon water theives should be named and shamed?

[Jaimx86]

I'm horrified at the news of looters (small group) stealing from the London Marathon water station at Deptford! Some adults are using their child's pram to carry all of the bottles they're taking.
What will people do next year if this goes unpunished? Steal the runners' phones and trainers as they go past?!
The London Marathon Event Manager has said it will be investigated.

On the basis I you click the metro link there is another story on there about "the worst person on the planet" which is a boy who was holding up his hand to high five people, then pulling away when the runners went to do it, I can't help suspecting they might have a tendency to over egg their stories...

Most of the papers now have a piece on it on their websites.

Okay. So the people of Deptford and those in the other boroughs on the 26 mile route of the London Marathon, should be discouraged from taking the left over water and instead decide to leave the thousands (millions?) of litres, except for a small bottle or two, but only if they were really thirsty. Because it's a bit grabby. And entitled.

The organisers shouldn't turn a blind eye. Instead they could either pour it down the drain and send the bottles to recycling, or collect all of it, store it somewhere and ship it to Darfur or some other drought-ridden part of the world. Because that would be really cost effective and eco-friendly, on top of them buying all that water in the first place and storing it somewhere and then transporting it along the route because they didn't want their runners dying of dehydration and a story coming out that charity fun runners died because they were too tight to provide water.

As stories, they would all be runners. But the so-called looters in Deptford would always win by a clear personal best.

Most of the papers now have a piece on it on their websites.

And?

I was responding to witchend. It ism't just in the Metro.

Tbh it upsets me less than the utter shitstorm of litter left behind after these kinds of events. Not to mention the gobbing that goes on

Tbh it upsets me less than the utter shitstorm of litter left behind after these kinds of events. Not to mention the gobbing that goes on

trufflesnout I don't know where you live. I live in the end borough of the route. It is all cleaned up by more or less 2pm.

Marathon runners do gob, and worse. It is 26 miles. I'll allow them that for one day.

It makes no difference if the race was nearly over or not. If they were taking water that they weren't supposed to be taking they are thieves.

you'd see more decorum in 3rd world countries where they're actually in need of clean, safe, drinking water!

No you most definitely would not. That is an odd and patronising thing to say as anyone who's read the experiences of people surviving in desperate situation would realise. But I wouldn't blame those people either. Luckily I have not experienced that first hand.

Obviously no one in Deptford needs to steal clean drinking water to slake their thirst. But they may want to make more money by taking a valuable commodity - bottled and branded water - and selling it. They are not stealing it and not holding a gun or anyone's head for needing it. If they aren't hurting someone by doing it, I'm not going to condemn them or witter on about decorum.

If they were taking water that they weren't supposed to be taking they are thieves.

Who says they were stealing it? Where do you think it was going to go?

Was they actually nicking the water though. One guy on camera saying they are.

If you've ever been at any part of the race, when majority of the racers have passed, and the clean up is starting. You get told to help yourself. It was exactly like that at the end last year in Westminster.

Savages?
I've seen worse in Waitrose when the reduced products are put out on display.

Are they frightfully poor in Deptford ??

As someone who lives on the London Marathon route, I'm very impressed by the clean up campaign. If that happens partly because they allow people to take loads of unopened bottles of water away and do with them what they may, I don't care. If it was left by the side of the road by right-thinking citizens who couldn't bear to take things they hadn't paid for, I'd be less amused. Because I'd have to pay to get it disposed of it in my council tax.

Deptford is in the 10% most deprived areas in the country. So yea. Very poor.

I've seen worse in Waitrose when the reduced products are put out on display.

Waitrose reductions are rubbish. You haven't seen me in Sainsbury's.

I live in a non deprived area of London.
I am not alone in seeing the scrum in supermarkets. Others have previously mentioned this on threads.
There's also plenty of reduction time especially at Tesco on YouTube.

it was not dissimilar to the looting we saw in the riots.

You mean kormachameleon?

And also It's not like stealing stuff from an individual or shop. This water is presumably left over. No one wants it. We have sales of things in work. Things are priced up and then they are are reduced and at the end things are put in a box by the lift with a sign saying: 'please take'.

I thought Buxton take it to the next event? It's marathon season... A half/full marathon every weekend right now