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The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
That's some metamorphosis....Today a snowman, tomorrow a cat
That's some metamorphosis....Today a snowman, tomorrow a cat
Two snowmen where removed from the golf course the next day. Perhaps I should contact the owner and push for a swift reprimand and sacking of the criminal ground staff.
Poor children, how will they cope knowing their snowy friend is no more. Perhaps I could start a donation for a bench.
Yes, let's put this all on the Dad who reviewed the CCTV to see what had upset his son so much rather than the utter moron who destroyed property that he had no right to. Jeez.
Maybe the Dad didn't fancy confronting the idiot & getting the same treatment, or maybe he didn't trust himself not to lamp the spanner & end up in bother himself. Either way, the Dad is not the one in the wrong here.
On the other side of the equation, whether or not what the binman did was right or wrong and whether or not he should lose his job, the boys dad actually went to the effort of reviewing the CCTV footage to find out what happened to the snowman, downloaded it, and emailed it to the council with a complaint. I can only assume this is a result of lockdown boredom. Could he not have just gone and had a word with the binmen outside?
The other interesting bit to me at least, is that the binman is showing more remorse by offering to rebuild the snowman than he would with a fake apology, as it will actually take a bit of effort.
Nice straw man, I didn't "put it all on the dad", I think both parties are knobs.
He already knew what upset his son, a destroyed snowman. Most parents at that stage would console the kid, build a new one, or do a host of other things, not review CCTV to see the cause.
What the binman did was wrong, but you can hardly call what the dad did right either, and as we know 2 wrongs don't make a right.
No one has won here, someone has a lost a job, and maybe the dad has a small feeling of satisfaction or victory, but his son hasn't magically become happier again or the snowman magically repaired itself. If the dad really cared about the kid, he would have done something that cheered the kid up, unless we suspect a 3 year requested his dad write to the council to get the bad man sacked, and that's why the dad did it.
Think he had form for decapitating scarecrows.Today a snowman, tomorrow a cat
If you think both parties are knobs then why not say as much in your first post; you don't blame the bin man, you blame the Dad. You actually praise the bin man for his refusal to make an apology but rebuild the snowman instead. So you did put it all on the Dad. No straw man here.
The Dad has done nothing that he is not entitled to, the bin man has. If you seriously think that reporting a public facing employee who goes round destroying stuff that is not his, regardless of what it was, is wrong then you need to give your head a shake.
Today a snowman, tomorrow a cat
I don't blame anyone in my post "whether or not what the binman did was right or wrong and whether or not he should lose his job" is not defending him, or saying he is right. I just point out the dad went over and above in being an arse, and despite claiming it's about the kid, none of his actions that are mentioned in the article relate to improving things for the kid. No blame assigned to any party - F for reading comprehension.
I don't "praise" the binman either, I just point out that offering to rebuild the snowman is more a sign of remorse than just a hollow apology. He actually offers to correct his wrong, which is more than the dad has done in this instance.
Also your claim about what each party is entitled too is not true. The article takes care not to mention or make clear exactly where the snowman was built. It could be a driveway/front garden or it could be a public pavement, it would be different if it was in someone garden or on a driveway, versus on a public path or other such public place. In fact building a snowman on a public path could be more wrong in that it's an obstruction. However we don't know which it is, so we shouldn't really form an opinion.
The article is also very careful to try and make it sound like the binman purposefully did it in front of the watching child to upset him, again that may or may not be true, we don't know.
So actually I'm upping my knob count to 6 to add the 4 journalists it took to write that bit of drivel.
I can see another knob, we’re up to 7 between us.
So no actual rebuttal just a personal insult. Nothing more to be said.
This thread was specifically about the people involved, hence why I posted my opinion of them, I didn't and won't insult other posters who disagree with me though.So you have insulted the father, the kid, the bin man, and 4 journalists, but spit the dummy when you are called the same.
Hmm.
When you hear his ’reason’ for kicking it, he said it was in his way. Not sure how he cleared his route by just removing the head and leaving the rest of the body.
I think there may be more to his previous behaviour but think that the father reporting it to the council was a bit of an over reaction.