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To find floral tributes being left for Harry Vincent offensive

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frankchickens · 10/04/2018 10:47

This is an attempt to intimidate the innocent family. Flowers should be removed - isn’t it littering?

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miffytherabbit1974 · 11/04/2018 19:48

I totally agree, @Slievenamon.

NameChangeAgainAndAgain · 11/04/2018 19:52

Miffy - thank you for that post.

I am quite saddened by so much of this thread Sad

snowagain · 11/04/2018 19:54

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snowagain · 11/04/2018 19:57

Anyone who is 'saddened' and devastated by this thread - you must need a blessed life if a thread on a message forum is making you cry. Boo hoo! Get a grip FFS - you sound ridiculous

NameChangeAgainAndAgain · 11/04/2018 19:59

Snow - police have trouble from some travellers. I'm sure they do. They also have a lot of trouble from some white British people and some black British people and some Polish people, and plenty of others. It feels unfair (racist) when you tarnish a whole commuity based on the acts of just some of them.

Lweji · 11/04/2018 20:00

Lewji I think you are the exception, rather than the norm.

I don't, which keeps my faith in humanity.

snowagain · 11/04/2018 20:00

@Dontdrinkdontsmoke

If they want to pay tribute to him, why don’t they put the flowers outside the robber’s caravan instead?

Ignorant, scummy cunts.

Because these scumbags want to intimidate and scare and bully the community. It's what many of them do.

Good for the people in the neighbourhood for removing their shit.

CupofFrothyCoffee · 11/04/2018 20:00

miffytherabbit1974

So because you and your mum have never had any bad dealings with them, that makes all of us who have wrong?

CupofFrothyCoffee · 11/04/2018 20:06

miffytherabbit1974

The police are standing guarding bunches of flowers because they're scared of upsetting the travelling community and because of what they may do... not because they're good decent people. Can you really not see that?

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CDAlady · 11/04/2018 20:09

I have read this whole thread. Nobody, not one person has said they feel sympathy for the man who died and that is exactly as it should be.

Some people have pointed out that rejoicing in a violent death is indecent and uncivilised. This is nothing to do with being ‘PC’ it is simply the way people should behave in 21st century Britain. Many people on here are behaving as if we are in 19th century Naples.

The man who killed the intruder had every right to do so. Nobody would argue with that. Nobody in this thread has argued with that. But killing a man is s serious thing. Even soldiers in wars understand that and they suffer mentally for it. Ask any soldier this. They don’t rejoice at killing.

I am seriously concerned for our society. It has changed. The British used to be rational and decent and trusted our police. What kind of people screech in happiness at a violent death and call the police ‘scum’ ?

bellabasset · 11/04/2018 20:13

The tributes are offensive and intimidating taking into account the unemployed dead man's criminal record of targeting the elderly.

That was the question OP posed, and in my view they should be removed.

Windbeneathmybingowings · 11/04/2018 20:14

I’d be tempted to put up my own tribute. Complete with picture of a person in a black and white stripy top, bag marked swag and a black mask tied across the face. Let’s celebrate all the man was, after all. A theiving rat.

If the family can behave inappropriately, I’d behave even more inappropriately. When will they get the message, no one wants to remember their theiving son except them, so do it alone and in private so that the victims of the rat can get on with their lives.

NameChangeAgainAndAgain · 11/04/2018 20:15

CDAlady - I agree with everything you've just said. Thank you for saying it better than I'm able.

snowagain · 11/04/2018 20:15

Exactly! Some people seem to be forgetting the trouble and misery this man and his scummy family have caused for many years.

snowagain · 11/04/2018 20:17

@CDALady

I think some people would rather the old man had NOT killed the scumbag criminal, and had been killed himself, by the way they are defending this piece of scum criminal.

Mydoghatesthebath · 11/04/2018 20:18

Well I won’t be weeping or apologising over not weeping over this scum bags death.

Nothing to do with his ethnicity as I really couldn’t care. My only experience of so called travellers was a huge amount of rubbish left in our village as they left and the very young girls at the local shop being petrified and abused by middle aged men.

If others have had positive experiences that’s good to hear. You can only post your experiences.

Criminals are not defined by race ethnicity or color but sometimes hide behind this to escape justice. Like the bankers hiding behind their wealthy lawyers and the Rotherham paedophiles hiding behind the Muslim religion and making themselves untouchable.

This is clearly a criminal family who spread fear and despair so to my mind scum of the earth. Hopefully the children can be rescued but unfortunately a life of crime probably is mapped out for them.

I am shocked at some comments mainly Eledon but I see she can’t justify her disgraceful comments so has gone.,

MrsTylerJoseph · 11/04/2018 20:18

Apparantly the police are now threatening to arrest anyone who rips the flowers down. Can promise you if they were on my fence I’d remove them!

snowagain · 11/04/2018 20:18

@windbeneath

I’d be tempted to put up my own tribute. Complete with picture of a person in a black and white stripy top, bag marked swag and a black mask tied across the face. Let’s celebrate all the man was, after all. A thieving rat.

If the family can behave inappropriately, I’d behave even more inappropriately. When will they get the message, no one wants to remember their theiving son except them, so do it alone and in private so that the victims of the rat can get on with their lives.

BRILLIANT! Grin

CupofFrothyCoffee · 11/04/2018 20:19

What kind of people screech in happiness at a violent death and call the police ‘scum’ ?

One person called the police scum - just one. And no-one is 'screeching in happiness', it's just that most people on this thread don't care a hoot about the violent, horrible thug of an intruder, why would we?

snowagain · 11/04/2018 20:21

Why are the police defending this criminal filth now?

I would set fire to the fucking LOT if I was there.

No way that scum bag CRIMINAL deserves any 'floral tribute...'

Arresting someone for pulling flowers down?

What a fucking joke.

Go arrest some REAL criminals. Like the scummy family and community of that scumbag criminal who the old man killed.

snowagain · 11/04/2018 20:21

And

snowagain · 11/04/2018 20:21

GOODBYE!

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