Offa's Dyke is fucked off

[teqniq]

Oh dear.

Allowed to bulldoze Offa's Dyke... because he claimed didn't know it was there!

A traveller who destroyed part of one of Britain's most important ancient monuments has escaped being prosecuted - because he claimed he didn't know it existed.

A 45-metre section of the world famous Offa's Dyke marking the 1,200-year-old boundary between England and Wales was flattened by the traveller known as "Danny".

But he won't prosecuted - because police couldn't prove he knew what Offa's Dyke was.

The earthwork on the Welsh border is a World Heritage site listed alongside the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal.

But police admitted today that they had "insufficient evidence" to prove it was deliberately damaged by the traveller landowner who had lived in the area all his life....

there seems to be a bit of an 'other' theme to this piece, what with the use of the 'traveller' epithet, opinions?

 

[ddraig]

Didn't that happen a while back?

 

[ddraig]

Yeah
Think the other story was worse iirc

 

[Greebo]

<snip>there seems to be a bit of an 'other' theme to this piece, what with the use of the 'traveller' epithet, opinions?

"Pig ignorant greedhead" might be more appropriate, although probably more open to legal action.

 

[teqniq]

Yeah
Think the other story was worse iirc

linky?

 

[ddraig]

Jim Saunders of the Offa’s Dyke Association said: ‘We had a report that quite a well-preserved part of the dyke had been damaged by the new landowner.

'There has been some suggestion that the new landowners are travellers, but we’ve been unable to contact them.’

One witness said: ‘I don’t think the men who cleared the hedge and weeds realised the significance of what they were doing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-50-yards-8th-century-monument-bulldozer.html

 

[ddraig]

Not that one but still

Anyway he was a bloody idiot wrecking it

 

[fishfinger]

Yeah
Think the other story was worse iirc

It's the same story after the 9 month inquiry.

 

[Ponyutd]

How is he a traveller if he has lived there all his life?

 

[ddraig]

oh come on

 

[Mr Moose]

I thought ignorance was no defence in law.

Surely hard to buy without some restrictive covenants or something?

 

[ddraig]

weird init, 'private land' on a world heritage site able to be bought and sold

 

[el-ahrairah]

Surely hard to buy without some restrictive covenants or something?

sadly not. anyone who has a passing interest in ancient monuments knows that landowners can basically get away with anything.

 

[Manter]

I thought ignorance was no defence in law.

Surely hard to buy without some restrictive covenants or something?

this^^

 

[Ponyutd]

oh come on

What I meant to say was where did they get the word traveller from? The point already being made by the o.p.

 

[Pickman's model]

What I meant to say was where did they get the word traveller from? The point already being made by the o.p.

for all you know he's been on the road to mandalay

 

[Ponyutd]

Or Bombay to Santa Fe.

 

[Pickman's model]

Or Bombay to Santa Fe.

quite

 

[DotCommunist]

What I meant to say was where did they get the word traveller from? The point already being made by the o.p.

could be accent? its a fairly distinctive one ennit

 

[ddraig]

What I meant to say was where did they get the word traveller from? The point already being made by the o.p.

Yes fair enoufh. but what you said reminds of the "how can they be a traveller if not travelling/now live in a house" line that people who dislike travellers say.
Not that you do