Moron trashes Portsmouth library, gets caught out by Facebook boasts

[editor]

The library was closed for five months as a result of this fucking twat's antics:

A TEENAGER faces jail after admitting on Facebook to flooding Portsmouth’s central library and causing £150,000 of damage.

The 16-year-old – who cannot be named for legal reasons – fought back tears as he confessed to committing the crime at the library in Guildhall Square.

Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court heard how he filled the plugholes in the third-floor men’s toilets with toilet roll and switched on the taps – causing water to pour through the library from 7.28pm on August 18 until the next day.

After initially denying the charge, the teenager changed his plea when he was confronted with the transcript of a Facebook conversation in which he told a friend he was the one responsible for the flood.

Asked on the social networking site if he had caused the damage, the teenager said: ‘Kind of, yeah.

‘I’ve kept it to myself, a few mates know.'...

The library was shut for five months while repairs were carried out, including recarpeting the building, replacing computer equipment and fixing electrics.

Some irreplaceable books were also destroyed when water cascaded through the building

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/lo...il_after_he_admits_flooding_library_1_2616198

 

[StoneRoad]

that little 5h1t should have to re-pay every penny that the council had to fork out to repair the damage his mindless actions caused, and some more on top to compensate for the lost books......that money could have been spent on better things.....

 

[OneStrike]

Punish him appropriately, it sounds like a stupid mid-teen idiotic prank, I doubt he will ever be able to cover the costs but a shit load of community work makes sense to me.

 

[Sgt Howie]

Was he a Lib Dem?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Was he a Lib Dem?

 

[Fedayn]

Punish him appropriately, it sounds like a stupid mid-teen idiotic prank, I doubt he will ever be able to cover the costs but a shit load of community work makes sense to me.

This

 

[StoneRoad]

actually, perhaps spending the next few years shelving returned books........(assuming the pratt could do that right!)....might do some thing (as long as he wears a tabard explaining why....)

although that might count as "humiliation" - and also assumes the library staff would contemplate letting him in the building!

 

[gunneradt]

bit like they should make all the spotty urchins who smash up buildings on demonstrations clear the mess up next morning

 

[FridgeMagnet]

bit like they should make all the spotty urchins who smash up buildings on demonstrations clear the mess up next morning

 

[FiFi]

As well as replacing the books an repairing all the damage to the fixtures and fittings, the city also lost access to an arts space/theatre workshop for the duration.
It's not as though we're inundated with cultural opportunities in the city to start with!
A local magazine for young people also lost their (free) home, and haven't yet restarted production.

I think a shed load of community service would be a good thing for the muppet. He might even start to think about his actions, and how they affect others!

 

[editor]

Tar and feather him! And debag/teabag him!

 

[gunneradt]

or attend rehabilitation with all the other losers

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I can't post the same slow hand clap gif twice, that would be against internet law.

 

[Fedayn]

or attend rehabilitation with all the other losers

One day you'll be funny.....

 

[gunneradt]

One day you'll be funny.....

but it's so true

I reckon they should round up the spotty urchins who smash up buildings and equip them with sponges and cleaning agents whilst wearing stripy clothes of course the next morning - and film it so everyone can laugh at them. I suspect they'd feel very big then.

 

[Fedayn]

but it's so true

I reckon they should round up the spotty urchins who smash up buildings and equip them with sponges and cleaning agents whilst wearing stripy clothes of course the next morning - and film it so everyone can laugh at them. I suspect they'd feel very big then.

Or really humiliate them and force them to wear Arsenal tops.

 

[gunneradt]

Or really humiliate them and force them to wear Arsenal tops.

nah just douse them in biactol frequently

 

[Fedayn]

nah just douse them in biactol frequently

Just like the Arsenal first team, those teenage zits are a problem.

 

[shagnasty]

They would be covered by insurance but would that include acts of vandalism

 

[gunneradt]

They would be covered by insurance but would that include acts of vandalism

still I think we're all agreed that mindless violence by spotty little herberts should be appropriately punished.

 

[twentythreedom]

bring back national service

 

[weepiper]

not enough bobbies on the beat, it would never have happened in the fifties, what this country needs is more fatal beatings.

 

[twentythreedom]

and the birch!

 

[SpineyNorman]

I read this thread title as "Moon trashes Portsmouth library" and was expecting to read that his Lib Dem cultism had finally sent him completely woof bark donkey and he'd gone to town smashing up the evil state run library.

 

[nino_savatte]

I thought it might have been a typical Torygraph commenter: they're always banging on about how public libraries "smell" and how ordinary people should have their own personal libraries in their mansions.

 

[Bil]

They would be covered by insurance but would that include acts of vandalism

Unlikely. The Council would have had to decide whether to keep the library open at all, and if so, to fund the repair and refurbishment out of reserves, which means that taxpayers money would be unavailable for other contingencies. There was a thread recently about Councils' self-insurance and reserves.

Anyway, isn't that a thief's argument - no harm done because insurance will cover it?

 

[audiotech]

He should be made to picket all libraries under threat of closure with a large heavy sign.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Amateur. Back in my day....

We had a kid get in a bulldozer and ram it through the school.

 

[StoneRoad]

some years ago, when I lived in another (urban) area, one of our neighbourhood's disaffected minority tried to burn down various public buildings. (junior and high school, doctors', library even the swimming pool! - eventually the situation was resoloved, by a fatal RTA and fire)

 

[stuff_it]

that little 5h1t should have to re-pay every penny that the council had to fork out to repair the damage his mindless actions caused, and some more on top to compensate for the lost books......that money could have been spent on better things.....

His vandalism could have been spent on better vandalisms too.....McD's anyone?