NEDs’ Atomic Dustbins / January 3 2008
One thing that amazed me about the New Year celebrations here in the village was that although the bars and pubs were deserted on New Year’s Eve, it looked as if an invading army had rampaged through the normally tidy streets on New Year’s Day morning.
Whilst out on our first walk of the year, Audrey and I had to step over thousands of filthy and disgusting items of household waste that had evidently been strewn around on the roads and pavements during the night by the local N.E.D.s (Non-Educated Delinquents).
Hundreds of full-to-the-brim dustbins waiting for collection had been overturned and their rancid contents gleefully kicked around. There were even a couple of bales of hay outside the Glebe Infants School (which I fancy had been used in the previous week’s nativity play) that had been taken apart and liberally distributed around the pedestrian area of the Market Square, as had the contents of the bottle banks outside the Co-op.
The scene had the contrived look of a Hollywood film set: it resembled some small-budget, post-apocalyptic atomic disaster movie which I found rather skilfully done but quite disturbing none the less. The unsettling panorama held no alliance, however, with the optimism that I felt on that first morning of 2008 for the coming twelve months and for the future in general.
Filed under Anti-Social Behaviour / English Village Life / Idiots / Vandalism
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4 comments on “NEDs’ Atomic Dustbins”
Jo Beaufoix / January 4th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Optimism is also good. Happy New Year Napoleon and Audrey.
Napoleon Fantastic / January 5th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Happy New Year, Jo and Mr B and all the little Beaufoix!
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