Disastrous family seasonal attractions and the never to be forgotten Lapland New Forest Theme Park

[Badgers]

Following this thread which is locked in the old 2008 Christmas Forum

Two brothers have been found guilty of misleading thousands of customers at a Lapland-themed park.

Victor Mears, 67, and Henry Mears, 60, operated Lapland New Forest at Matchams Park on the Hampshire-Dorset border in 2008 before it closed.

A jury at Bristol Crown Court found both men guilty on five counts of misleading advertising.

BBC Linky



Much as everyone felt for the people who purchased tickets many of us laughed and laughed. However I am even more pleased at this news for the Mears Brothers.

 

[killer b]

No shit.

 

[kittyP]

I both felt and laughed heartily at the whole debacle

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I both felt and laughed heartily at the whole debacle

Same here - I am glad they have been found guilty and feel awful for the poor people who paid to go there but the pics were most amusing!

 

[Dillinger4]

A winter wonderland.

 

[machine cat]

That story made my Christmas

 

[Badgers]

I have just asked to join the facebook group

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Thos pic makes me laugh the most in its patheticness

 

[pogofish]

Following this thread which is locked in the old 2008 Christmas Forum

However this thread was active only yesterday:

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/272182-Christmas-theme-park-scam.



And the Mears lot deserve all they get!

 

[Badgers]

However this thread was active only yesterday:

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/272182-Christmas-theme-park-scam.



And the Mears lot deserve all they get!

Whoops...

The omission of the words 'Lapland New Forest' foxed me.

Pleased to have given you more opportunity though pogofish

 

[Dillinger4]

I think I would genuinely enjoy that place.

 

[pogofish]

Pleased to have given you more opportunity though pogofish

I'd rather you didn't.

 

[Badgers]

I'd rather you didn't.

I thought you had found your purpose?

 

[machine cat]

Thos pic makes me laugh the most in its patheticness

The stories about fathers having fights with elves and kids catching santa having a sly fag were great

 

[kained&able]

I was trying to find this place the other day but couldn't remember its name!

Now if only i could remember why.

dave

 

[Dillinger4]

The stories about fathers having fights with elves and kids catching santa having a sly fag were great

Init.

Its what Christmas is all about.

I think all children should be taken somewhere like at Christmas as a lesson in reality.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

The stories about fathers having fights with elves and kids catching santa having a sly fag were great

It is just so fantastically amusing in its horridness!

 

[Voley]

The real gem of that BBC page is at the bottom:

Henry Mears added: "Whatever you do, you will find the public complain about something."

 

[Dillinger4]

The real gem of that BBC page is at the bottom:

The icing on the cake.

 

[rover07]

Its no worse than most Santas grottos and Christmas markets tbh.

There was one on the end of Brighton pier a few years ago, a small plastic ice rink and the saddest looking reindeer in a pen.

 

[Voley]

I think I might have paid £25 just to see how shit it was.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

and the elves were smoking

Fucking class!

 

[spacemonkey]

Weird, I was thinking about this earlier.

Words can't describe my joy at this story. I just wish I'd been there to witness it myself.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Just on't radio, disabled folk were stuck in mud in wheel chairs, Elves just stood around smoking, cunts.

 

[Stanley Edwards]

...I just wish I'd been there to witness it myself.

I seriously hope they try it again

I still can't stop laughing at the "the elves were like smoking" remark in the BBC news video. Fucking brilliant. I want to go this year.

 

[Badgers]

Keep laughing at my desk.
Had to explain I was laughing about something from Christmas 2008.

 

[kittyP]

There was a "Christmas market" in my home town this year (ugh) and all they had were normal shitty burger stalls and the 'win a toy' things from fun fairs but in wooden huts with a red trim

It was soooo depressing but funny at the same time.

 

[IMR]

Lapland New Forest captured the true essence of England. Make you . . . proud <sniff>

 

[nicksonic]

'new forest villains'... TO ARMS!!!

 

[miniGMgoit]

Victor Mears admitted to the court he took a "bit of a gamble" in setting up Lapland New Forest without investing any money