Perhaps to time has come to replace all such memorials with look-alike Bronze resin since connecting these memorials to the National Grid is not an option:
Words no longer fail me since this kind of thing is now a daily event.
By: mmitch - 25th May 2012 at 16:46
There is only one punishment they will understand. Money.
If the plaque costs £50 then fine the scrap yard and the thief £500 each.
No scrappie would take the risk and the ‘market’ would dry up.
mmitch.
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th May 2012 at 15:24
And there are already ‘rules’.
Fact is, you are not going to stop metal theft. Period. You might make it a bit more difficult, but rules and laws do not prevent crime.
By: trumper - 25th May 2012 at 15:16
Trouble is rules are only adhered to by those that respect them.
By: scotavia - 25th May 2012 at 15:08
New rules due for scrap dealers…
http://www.mrw.co.uk/news/scrap-dealers-accused-by-councils-over-metal-theft/8630675.article
By: rkamm - 25th May 2012 at 13:00
this happens here daily in the usa. my parents have a summer house that was cleaned out off all the copper plumbing and heating pipes. they took all the oil out of nthe tanks and drained out the dirt bike tanks of the gas but left the bikes??!!! there is a local historical park by me that they stole all the brass placards. They caught the guys that did my folks house when they ransacked a church for the plumbing. Ive had stuff swipped from my shop aswell.
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th May 2012 at 06:10
Stone or concrete, at least it won’t be thieved – although Geoffrey Page’s original concept for the memorial at Capel Le Ferne was for a very large metal structure. The idea was binned, partly because of the adverse affects on the intended metal structure from the nearby English Channel – but probably also just as well given the number of metal thieves operating in the area!
By: Mike J - 24th May 2012 at 22:43
It’s not concrete at all, but carved from stone. It was done at a workshop in Cambridge.
I actually like it, and think it an appropriate monument to ‘The Few’
By: Bushell - 24th May 2012 at 22:30
I thought when I read the heading that this hideous bit of ‘sculpture’ had been stolen. Great, an opportunity to replace it with something of a quality more in keeping with its intended purpose was my initial reaction. Then I remembered its made of concrete. Not much scrap value there.
Whoever made this rubbish evidently doesnt know what the human body looks like. Talk about sloping shoulders ! :rolleyes:
By: Creaking Door - 24th May 2012 at 20:15
There is some of this ‘plastic’ brass in a park near me…..it is so good there are signs on it saying it is fake! :rolleyes:
By: Rocketeer - 24th May 2012 at 19:52
Terrible. There are modern resins that are really good that if bronze dust is used in the ‘gel coat’ look the bees…..at least these scum bags would not profit. The other thing would be a tracker device
By: TonyT - 24th May 2012 at 19:30
The thief and dealer should be sentenced to a months mine clearance duties in Afghanistan, get them to walk in front of patrols for that period…. That will educate them.
By: hindenburg - 24th May 2012 at 19:21
The [scrap metal dealers] who are prepared to accept lead and not ask any questions are as guilty as those who steal it.’
quite right too………………….
By: hindenburg - 24th May 2012 at 19:19
By: Creaking Door - 24th May 2012 at 18:59
We have reached a place where the value of the sacrifices made is only (symbolicaly) worthy of a plastic toy-box sword.
We could try one of these…
…I’d like to see the b******s try and carry that off! :diablo:
(I hope everybody recognises this…..and, yes, it really is that big!)
By: hindenburg - 24th May 2012 at 18:43
Sadly all too common now..just happened to the church in our village,but I`m sure as with previous local thieves and drugpushers..they will be found out,taken away and given a good beating……………..allegedly.This ,so I`m told,works.
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th May 2012 at 18:40
There is something desperately sad and just plain ‘wrong’ about the bronze swords on The Cross of Sacrifice being replaced with plastic ones. I can understand why. But….
We have reached a place where the value of the sacrifices made is only (symbolicaly) worthy of a plastic toy-box sword.
By: Creaking Door - 24th May 2012 at 18:05
If somebody ‘with an interest’ took it, then in my book they are lower-lives than any opportunist metal thief.
I agree entirely. It is not something that I have any evidence of and, I hasten to add, it is absolutely not something that I would condone in any way but I think there is the possibility that certain artefacts taken from memorials are not actually taken for their scrap value (although I concede that that is what happens in the vast majority of such cases).
By: Flygirl - 24th May 2012 at 18:01
What Scum Bags !
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th May 2012 at 17:22
CD
If somebody ‘with an interest’ took it, then in my book they are lower-lives than any opportunist metal thief. And more unpleasant. And why would they take it and what would they do with it?
By: hampden98 - 24th May 2012 at 17:17
I went for a job at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Maidenhead.
They give you a small tour of their museum which explains how they create and maintain the graves including the large memorial with the sword.
The sword is now made of plastic as the bronze ones were often stolen for scrap and cost a fortune to replace.
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