File this under "Well, duh..." if you like, but, boy, there are some fucktards out there.
This homemade sign appeared recently on the Lea Navigation towpath – by the bridge between the Princess of Wales pub and the footpath onto South Millfields – and reading it turned my stomach. Who, in the name of fun, would pelt to death a nest of just-hatched chicks and its mother? A few telltale stones were found next to their broken bodies.
Sickened as I was, I was also cheered - that somebody cared enough to put up the sign in the first place. Without it, the birds' murder would have passed me by. Without the intervention of a concerned Claptonista, I doubt our local paper, the 'Hackney Gazette' - ensconced in its offices in not-very-local Ilford - would have spotted it either. For what it's worth, you can read its report here.
But that notice is a testament to Clapton, a reminder that, for all the scumbags in the area, there's an active right-minded majority.
It might just be worth troubling to 'Gazette' with a letter, to remind the police that the thug/s who did this need to be caught.
UPDATE: there's a more detailed news report by Hackney Citizen here.
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