Post by Dave on Dec 18, 2009 20:12:54 GMT
WHO WILL BE OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONE
Yes fellow members when I do the best poster of the week award next week(Christmas day) the winner will be our Christmas number one.
I believe I'm right in say that last year capitalgull( Andy) was our very first Christmas number on winner, so will it be you this year? now is the time to make that post you have always wanted too, the one that your fellow members will just want to vote for, so start writing it and get it up on the forum.
What can I say about this weeks winner you do not already know? well he does not like spiders
Yes it seems you have been voting for my posts this week, so thanks for your votes as its about time I won it again ;D
One of the posts I made this week
On my last post I used the word FEAR, as it is the fear being put into people that can cause far more problems then there are and fear can also be a very dangerous thing and harm people who are completely innocent.
On the J.Vine show last week a woman gave an interview that was so moving and full of pain and deep hurt, it had Yorkie eating truck drivers pulling into lay-bys to have a cry, the pain in her voice would have made even the hardest man cry and the story left me feeling very sad and fearful myself for the sort of society we are becoming.
This lady and her 63 year old disabled husband moved into a new home in June of this year, they received countless knocks on their front door from two girls aged 10 and 11 years old asking to walk their dog.
They at first refused but in the end gave in and let them walk the dog, very soon after this the two girls made allegations that the man had indecently touched them during the summer. But after police investigated the claims, they were quickly dismissed.
However, malicious rumours were spread around the estate where they lived and the man and his wife suffered vandalism, abuse and threats in the street from hate mobs.
Neighbourhood police officers even took the step of delivering leaflets to residents insisting the allegations were ‘false and without any foundation whatsoever’. In October, after a holiday to escape the turmoil, the man demanded his accusers be prosecuted and then set about the fight to clear his name. He said: “I won’t give in. It’ll probably kill me, but I won’t run away with my tail between my legs.”
The man and his wife moved to another new house to escape the terrible abuse they were suffering, but the hate campaign continued and last week a brick smashed through the couple’s conservatory at their new home.
Just days later then man was rushed to hospital as he suffered a massive heart attack and died and his wife firmly believes it was all the stress her husband was under that caused his heart attack.
This story shows just how such a thing could happen to anyone of us, all it takes is just the suggestion that you may be a pedo, or someone making false claims against you and your whole life could be ruined when you were not guilty of doing anything wrong. You can be sure if this man had not have died and applied for an ISA he would not have got one as he had been investigated over a sexual matter concerning children.
A few years ago a man who feared such a thing could happen to him, cost a young child their life, I know after you read what happened you may say you would not have stopped for a second to even give it a thought, but then its easy to say what you would do if its not you there on the spot and having to make a decision.
The man was driving home in the early hours of the morning when he came across a young child walking in the pyjamas, his first thought was to stop the car and go over too the child. Let’s say the child could not tell the man where she lived and as he did not have a mobile phone and the police station was five miles away, he got her in his car and drove the one mile it was to his home. There he could phone the police but as he got her into the car someone saw him and took his car number and just as he got home and indoors the police broke his front door down.
He got very scared and who could blame him they way things are these days and he drove on by and looked for a phone box to contact the police, only someone did take the child and the child was found the next day dead.
Years ago before all this fear was spread around, a stranger would stop to help such a child and no one would even begin to think this person had bad intentions toward the child, but that is not how it is now sadly. I wanted to take some beech shots in the summer, but before I could do so I had to make sure there were no children in the direction I was pointing my camera.
I put up some photos of Shaldon on here a few months ago, one showed the football pitch at Shaldon, I waited a good five minutes for a young girl to ride her bike off the pitch so I could take the shot and I was with Carol, but you can bet there might have been someone watching us who then claimed we were trying to get a picture of the child.
As more and more stories happen like the first one as they will, many adults will grow even more fearful about their motives being taken the wrong way and there will then be many more occasions when some will choose to drive past a child out walking alone in the early hours of the morning, too fearful to stop and help.
There was another story on the J.Vine show the week before that I listened to with interest. A school wanted to put a high fence around a field that is not only a public field, but one the school use for school sports. The residents do not want the field fencing off as it is used by them.
The speaker for the council kept saying it was being done to keep the children safe, to prevent one of them from being taken. J.Vine asked the question several times “ has a child ever been taken from the field?” the answer was “NO” as you might expect, but once again it is just the fear that one could get taken that the council man kept banging on about.
Schools may well end up like prisons in the end, children locked behind electric fences, but then can anyone be sure they have not locked them in where there maybe a real danger? Locked in a place where someone has managed to hide why they are really there. I want to see children kept safe, but it has to be done in a sensible balanced way that allows children to grow up without unnecessary fears being put into them and ordinary people never being afraid to stop and help a child if there looked a need to do so.
Yes fellow members when I do the best poster of the week award next week(Christmas day) the winner will be our Christmas number one.
I believe I'm right in say that last year capitalgull( Andy) was our very first Christmas number on winner, so will it be you this year? now is the time to make that post you have always wanted too, the one that your fellow members will just want to vote for, so start writing it and get it up on the forum.
What can I say about this weeks winner you do not already know? well he does not like spiders
Yes it seems you have been voting for my posts this week, so thanks for your votes as its about time I won it again ;D
One of the posts I made this week
On my last post I used the word FEAR, as it is the fear being put into people that can cause far more problems then there are and fear can also be a very dangerous thing and harm people who are completely innocent.
On the J.Vine show last week a woman gave an interview that was so moving and full of pain and deep hurt, it had Yorkie eating truck drivers pulling into lay-bys to have a cry, the pain in her voice would have made even the hardest man cry and the story left me feeling very sad and fearful myself for the sort of society we are becoming.
This lady and her 63 year old disabled husband moved into a new home in June of this year, they received countless knocks on their front door from two girls aged 10 and 11 years old asking to walk their dog.
They at first refused but in the end gave in and let them walk the dog, very soon after this the two girls made allegations that the man had indecently touched them during the summer. But after police investigated the claims, they were quickly dismissed.
However, malicious rumours were spread around the estate where they lived and the man and his wife suffered vandalism, abuse and threats in the street from hate mobs.
Neighbourhood police officers even took the step of delivering leaflets to residents insisting the allegations were ‘false and without any foundation whatsoever’. In October, after a holiday to escape the turmoil, the man demanded his accusers be prosecuted and then set about the fight to clear his name. He said: “I won’t give in. It’ll probably kill me, but I won’t run away with my tail between my legs.”
The man and his wife moved to another new house to escape the terrible abuse they were suffering, but the hate campaign continued and last week a brick smashed through the couple’s conservatory at their new home.
Just days later then man was rushed to hospital as he suffered a massive heart attack and died and his wife firmly believes it was all the stress her husband was under that caused his heart attack.
This story shows just how such a thing could happen to anyone of us, all it takes is just the suggestion that you may be a pedo, or someone making false claims against you and your whole life could be ruined when you were not guilty of doing anything wrong. You can be sure if this man had not have died and applied for an ISA he would not have got one as he had been investigated over a sexual matter concerning children.
A few years ago a man who feared such a thing could happen to him, cost a young child their life, I know after you read what happened you may say you would not have stopped for a second to even give it a thought, but then its easy to say what you would do if its not you there on the spot and having to make a decision.
The man was driving home in the early hours of the morning when he came across a young child walking in the pyjamas, his first thought was to stop the car and go over too the child. Let’s say the child could not tell the man where she lived and as he did not have a mobile phone and the police station was five miles away, he got her in his car and drove the one mile it was to his home. There he could phone the police but as he got her into the car someone saw him and took his car number and just as he got home and indoors the police broke his front door down.
He got very scared and who could blame him they way things are these days and he drove on by and looked for a phone box to contact the police, only someone did take the child and the child was found the next day dead.
Years ago before all this fear was spread around, a stranger would stop to help such a child and no one would even begin to think this person had bad intentions toward the child, but that is not how it is now sadly. I wanted to take some beech shots in the summer, but before I could do so I had to make sure there were no children in the direction I was pointing my camera.
I put up some photos of Shaldon on here a few months ago, one showed the football pitch at Shaldon, I waited a good five minutes for a young girl to ride her bike off the pitch so I could take the shot and I was with Carol, but you can bet there might have been someone watching us who then claimed we were trying to get a picture of the child.
As more and more stories happen like the first one as they will, many adults will grow even more fearful about their motives being taken the wrong way and there will then be many more occasions when some will choose to drive past a child out walking alone in the early hours of the morning, too fearful to stop and help.
There was another story on the J.Vine show the week before that I listened to with interest. A school wanted to put a high fence around a field that is not only a public field, but one the school use for school sports. The residents do not want the field fencing off as it is used by them.
The speaker for the council kept saying it was being done to keep the children safe, to prevent one of them from being taken. J.Vine asked the question several times “ has a child ever been taken from the field?” the answer was “NO” as you might expect, but once again it is just the fear that one could get taken that the council man kept banging on about.
Schools may well end up like prisons in the end, children locked behind electric fences, but then can anyone be sure they have not locked them in where there maybe a real danger? Locked in a place where someone has managed to hide why they are really there. I want to see children kept safe, but it has to be done in a sensible balanced way that allows children to grow up without unnecessary fears being put into them and ordinary people never being afraid to stop and help a child if there looked a need to do so.