Yobs put Rishton allotment site under attack (From Blackburn Citizen)
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Yobs put Rishton allotment site under attack
7:00pm Monday 3rd September 2012 in News
By Jessica Cree, Education reporter
Michael Bibby with his burned-out shed
AN ALLOTMENT site is coming ‘under attack’ from vandals who have set fire to sheds and killed livestock.
In the latest incident one of the sheds, which was used to store fruit and vegetables, was destroyed in an arson attack, and another badly damaged by the flames.
Earlier this year, 13 ducks and a goose were killed when somebody broke into the Parker Street allotments in Rishton and shot them with an air rifle.
Michael Bibby, who lives in Cornwall Road, has tended the site for the last 13 years and said that the damage had cost him more than £6,000.
The 68-year-old retired lorry driver said: “It is getting beyond a joke. It is getting out of hand.
“I have got to rebuild the shed now, which will cost me £3,000. That is if I decide to rebuild it, because it might all be pointless.
“You never know what you are going to face when you come down here.”
Mr Bibby’s wife Brenda, 65, also goes down to the allotment two to three times a week.
She said: “We should be enjoying our retirement, but it is just hard work, it is a struggle to keep it.
“But we are going to continue with it. We have got to, otherwise the vandals have won.”
Hyndburn crew manager Steve Hartley said: “Someone had set fire to the allotment shed. It was engulfed by the fire and the flames affected the shed next to it.
“We thought there were some animals inside, but they were outside, which was good.
“The owner came down and he was upset, as you can imagine. He put a lot of pride into his allotment.
“It follows previous vandal attacks which have included geese being killed and somebody breaking into a shed and stealing some chickens.”
He said that police were investigating the incident.
Comments(11)
liddle 'un
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8:34pm Mon 3 Sep 12
useyourhead wrote:I think your missing the point.
3k for a shed, never in a million years!
Ronnietate
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9:04pm Mon 3 Sep 12
useyourhead
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9:18pm Mon 3 Sep 12
liddle 'un wrote:most of you will think that.
useyourhead wrote:I think your missing the point.
3k for a shed, never in a million years!
colin 15
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9:55pm Mon 3 Sep 12
Chris P Bacon
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10:22pm Mon 3 Sep 12
colin 15 wrote:A voice from 1933 there. Should we bring back birching and hanging as well?
Bring back conscription, get the yobs off the streets. Maybe the army can make men of them after all the do gooders have failed.
Stuart Farquar
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10:35pm Mon 3 Sep 12
John Peters
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11:25pm Mon 3 Sep 12
useyourhead wrote:You obviously haven't bought any large sheds lately. This isn't a 6x4 garden shed.. http://www.diy.com/n
3k for a shed, never in a million years!
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Michael@ClitheroeSince58
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7:26am Tue 4 Sep 12
John Peters wrote:That's not counting for the man hours to remove the old one and erect the new one. So 3k is just to buy it.
useyourhead wrote:You obviously haven't bought any large sheds lately. This isn't a 6x4 garden shed.. http://www.diy.com/n
3k for a shed, never in a million years!
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happycyclist
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9:03am Tue 4 Sep 12
Chris P Bacon wrote:Yep.
colin 15 wrote:A voice from 1933 there. Should we bring back birching and hanging as well?
Bring back conscription, get the yobs off the streets. Maybe the army can make men of them after all the do gooders have failed.
Graham Hartley
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9:27am Tue 4 Sep 12
useyourhead wrote:Which million years? I expect that during the coming million years, garden sheds will cost rather more than three thousand pounds.
3k for a shed, never in a million years!
Assuming a modest rise in the cost of sheds to be one percent per annum compound then after ten years the cost will have increased by a factor of 1.01 multiplied by itself ten times, or about 1.105 - but after two hundred years the factor will be about 7.32, making the cost of a shed almost twenty-two thousand pounds. After five hundred years the factor rises to almost 145, so the shed will cost a little over 434 thousand pounds.
useyourhead says...
7:13pm Mon 3 Sep 12