The following is an excerpt from the comments posted on the Edinburgh Evening News website;
I've lived in Marchmont for 25 years.
I use the Meadows pretty much everyday... going to work, going out, playing football, etc. and I've never had any bother, even when i'm staggering back from that amazing kebab shop on forrest road dribbling kebab sauce down my chin and onto my trainers whilst singing Bugsy Malone tunes to myself!!
However thats not say that the meadows are safe...A point was made in a previous post that mentions how attacks in the meadows seem to go up quite substantially whenever the "funfair" (more like Scumfair) is in town. I agree with that statement 100%!!
All that the fair does is attract teenage chav scum from nearby parts who do nothing but cause trouble and along with the fact the fair itself is run by a dubious bunch too!
Notice too how there always seems to be an increase in the number of car's getting broken ito and houses getting burgled!! Coinsidence?? I think not!
Police patrols are quite regular in the meadows and i appluad thier efforts to get rid of vagrents, teenage drinkers and other menaces to socitey!
But yes, more CAN be done! Such as infrared CCTV being added to the area! Especially at the east end.
Anyway...when the fair is in town you best make sure your windows and doors are locked!!!!
The story is about an area of Edinburgh called "The Meadows", where people are concerned at the rise in crime and attacks that are occurring there. In true British fashion the funfair must be to blame. The funfair visits the area about 2 weeks in every 52, but the apparent effect of this obviously lingers and forces the local people to commit crime for the next 50 weeks until they arrive again. In the 21st century we are still reverting back to the days when if someones cow dropped dead, an old woman in the village would be burnt at the stake for being a witch.
There are occasional dissenting voices on the website, but the overall impression seems to be that the funfair, (or scumfair as they refer to it) somehow lowers the tone of the area. Well I have news for them, some parts of the city are so rough, nothing short of a serial chicken molester would lower the tone.
Before there is a storm of protest about my comments, please reread the excerpt above, I am quite sure that the newspaper in question would not have allowed these comments to stand if instead of funfair they had made reference to asians or black men, so why the hell should it be O.K. to insult people going about a legitimate business, her majesty the Queen was quite happy to allow Hyde park to host a funfair and also the Mall, the fact that such an august publication as The Edinburgh News hosts this discussion gives it added legitimacy in the eyes of the readers.
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I've lived in Marchmont for 25 years.
I use the Meadows pretty much everyday... going to work, going out, playing football, etc. and I've never had any bother, even when i'm staggering back from that amazing kebab shop on forrest road dribbling kebab sauce down my chin and onto my trainers whilst singing Bugsy Malone tunes to myself!!
However thats not say that the meadows are safe...A point was made in a previous post that mentions how attacks in the meadows seem to go up quite substantially whenever the "funfair" (more like Scumfair) is in town. I agree with that statement 100%!!
All that the fair does is attract teenage chav scum from nearby parts who do nothing but cause trouble and along with the fact the fair itself is run by a dubious bunch too!
Notice too how there always seems to be an increase in the number of car's getting broken ito and houses getting burgled!! Coinsidence?? I think not!
Police patrols are quite regular in the meadows and i appluad thier efforts to get rid of vagrents, teenage drinkers and other menaces to socitey!
But yes, more CAN be done! Such as infrared CCTV being added to the area! Especially at the east end.
Anyway...when the fair is in town you best make sure your windows and doors are locked!!!!
The story is about an area of Edinburgh called "The Meadows", where people are concerned at the rise in crime and attacks that are occurring there. In true British fashion the funfair must be to blame. The funfair visits the area about 2 weeks in every 52, but the apparent effect of this obviously lingers and forces the local people to commit crime for the next 50 weeks until they arrive again. In the 21st century we are still reverting back to the days when if someones cow dropped dead, an old woman in the village would be burnt at the stake for being a witch.
There are occasional dissenting voices on the website, but the overall impression seems to be that the funfair, (or scumfair as they refer to it) somehow lowers the tone of the area. Well I have news for them, some parts of the city are so rough, nothing short of a serial chicken molester would lower the tone.
Before there is a storm of protest about my comments, please reread the excerpt above, I am quite sure that the newspaper in question would not have allowed these comments to stand if instead of funfair they had made reference to asians or black men, so why the hell should it be O.K. to insult people going about a legitimate business, her majesty the Queen was quite happy to allow Hyde park to host a funfair and also the Mall, the fact that such an august publication as The Edinburgh News hosts this discussion gives it added legitimacy in the eyes of the readers.
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