[Stoat]

Elm Parish Council chairman Coun John Brand said they would not remove the tributes unless the local community complained.

Translation: "If I stick my neck out and remove all of this, the "family" and friends of this thug will firebomb my house and murder my family"

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This "display" reminds me of the funerals and gravesite tributes given to Mexican and South/Central American drug cartel kingpins and crime syndicate bosses as well as Eastern European organized crime funerals, where everyone is terrified of them and so nobody publicly objects to these elaborate glorifications of their crimes.

One naturally wonders if this thug's "family" and friends would be so terriblty cocky if Great Britain allowed the "common" people to effectively defend themselves from criminal thugs to the same degree as American citizens are able.  It's not so easy to terrorize an entire community when the community can shoot you in the head.

[Stoat]

“Thought you might be interested” Ping.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Could somebody maybe add a dummy of the fellow hanging himself? That might lend a perspective.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Oh, and I took these silly “tributes” at first to be intended as ironic — looks like the items thus iconified got their symbolic revenge upon him, it seems to me. If it’s really “you go, guy” then yeah, it should be cleaned up like so much litter. Maybe the flowers can be “repurposed” in the process.

[Last Dakotan]

Little gas ... little matches - problem solved.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Somebody on the inside didn’t like him too much.

Maybe somebody should add some rope to the graveside display.

[FreedomPoster]

A pint of petrol spread about that display appropriately, and a match, would seem to solve the problem and send the right message.

[Stoat]

UPDATE

The fake ATM "tribute" has been vandalized and it seems that what few friends and family this loser had in life who can type at all have converged on the Comments area of The Sun and are defending him. Fortunately there are many more who are pushing back against them and standing up for decent, law-abdiding people, so that's a good sign.

Before any FReepers spend a lot of time composing a thoughtful comment for The Sun's site, please be advised that the comment I submitted there yesterday has been taken down by The Sun's tireless censors.  My comment used no foul language or rudeness whatsoever, in fact it was very much like the final two paragraphs below the asterisk line of post #1 in this Free Republic thread.

I believe that my unforgivable sin, in the eyes of The Sun's censors, was to simply ask the question of whether empowering the decent, law-abiding people of Great Britain to be able to defend themselves in a similar manner as we can here in the USA might have made a difference in this matter.  That was apparently a completely forbidden area for me to venture into and it was taken down.  We can't be corrupting the minds of commoners with ideas of proper self-defense now, can we?  We must always trust The State to do all of that for us.

Be thankful for Free Republic, where polite people still have an opportunity to openly discuss what's on their minds.  Many online "news" sites which claim to welcome public comments are not nearly so free as it is here.

 

Destroyed ... ATM tribute