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Falklands' Police appealing to Darwin cemetery visitors to advance damages' investigation
The Royal Falkland Islands Police are continuing to investigate reported damage within the Argentine Cemetery near Darwin which was discovered during the last week of January. The damage refers to the vandalized case containing a statue of the Virgin of Lujan, and the image, overlooking the lines of crosses at the cemetery. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYeah, it's a terrible shame. Still, if the argies had taken their corpses with them instead of leaving them as a 'claim', it wouldn't happen.
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 09:44 am - Link - Report abuse +3Perhaps, every time that “Argentina reaffirms, once again, its legitimate rights over the Malvinas, South Georgia and South Sandwich islands and surrounding maritime spaces, which are integral part of national territory” someone decides to show argieland what they think of 'national territory'.
The photograph of the statue in the case looks like that from 2012. From what little information is available, there was no suggestion of damage to the glass on this occasion.
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 09:48 am - Link - Report abuse +2For goodness sake Mercopress....
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse -6If one has a Twitter account, one Tweets or has Tweeted, one does not Twit or has Twitted...
Most communities would have apologised and repaired the damage themselves regardless of who was responsible, at their own expense, has it been repaired...?
I was sooo.. tempted to write irregardless...
I Think, Think knows who it was,
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 02:09 pm - Link - Report abuse +1but thinking about it I don't think so..
but sooner or later the person will be caught.
VOICE
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse +4Are YOU really in full possession of your senses? Just why should the Falklands LEGITIMATE community take it upon themselves to repair this damage? It may just be possible that the damage has been caused by a visitor from Argentina.
Voice is an indignant little Argentine, himself.
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 03:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Mr. Think/voice - no such word as “irregardless” - you're slipping.
This must have made you upset. Are you a Malvinas Veteran?
@gordo1
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why wouldn't they offer to pay for the damage? It wouldn't break the bank and it would be a nice gesture. If you believe the damage was done by someone from Argentina in order to create bad publicity, then frustrating them by creating good publicity would only be a good thing.
How about a trade - send over 40 Argies to sort out the rest of the landmines they laid and the Islanders will fix up the cemetery? Careful Gordo you'll get Voicey's Hackles up.
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse +1It's what Communities do...if it was a German or Italian cemetery in the UK the local Community Council would have repaired it without a question...
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse -2“Mr. Think/voice - no such word as “irregardless” - you're slipping. ”
Oh dear...I never knew that....;-)))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKP_pZ3WgnM
DemonTree
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse +1And I suppose you believe the events of 1982 were “nice gestures” on the part of Argentina which has never offered to pay for the removal of the mines they seeded at the time of the invasion - amongst other gestures committed by that benighted nation.
Maj Roger Latchford had a terrible time with the Argies. Totally uncooperative at the time of burials. We are still de-mining the areas the Argies illegally mined and they havent paid a Peso in compensation. THEY should apologise for their behaviour, stop the histrionics and grow up. THEY wanted this cemetery its their responsibility to maintain it, which they don't. They just whinge at every opportunity.
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +4@gordo1
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Of course not. Why would you think such a thing?
I'm just saying it would be the right thing to do and there is very little downside, so why not do it?
What's happened, has she been deflowered and no longer a virgin?
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Ahhhhhh..., Mr. Voice and Mr. Demontree....
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Two of my favourite alpine, clever red poppies towering over them dull and grey turnip killing fields...
If you didn't exist in here at MercoPress..., somebody should Think about creating you ;-)... Please continue the good job..., disregardless...
Think never missing the chance to big up the Quislings… transparent as Perspex :-)
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 09:32 pm - Link - Report abuse -1@The Voice
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 09:59 pm - Link - Report abuse +1That's funny, I don't remember ever supporting Argentina over the Falklands. Is common sense considered treason these days?
@Think
You're doing that on purpose aren't you? Why?
Mr. DemonTree...
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse -2Of course i'm “doing that on purpose”...
Why...? Because I fully agree with what both of you wrote above and because I mean every word I wrote in my own comment...
That it also happens to poke them Anglo turnips paranoia is just an extra cherry on the cake...
DemonTree
Feb 03rd, 2017 - 11:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Unpredictable sometimes is Mr. Think...
I spend countless comments trying to convince folk that we are two different people and he destroys it all with one...
Funny though....;-)))
Mr Voice
Feb 04th, 2017 - 12:10 am - Link - Report abuse -4You aren't no better yourself, lad...
Shamelessly copying me signature three ellipses...!
If me nick was Adidas..., I could sue you for a zillion dollars...;-)
Not fair Mr. Think...
Feb 04th, 2017 - 01:11 am - Link - Report abuse -3That is just one of life's million to one coincidences...
I've mentioned it before, it was a lazy habit I developed on a mobile phone, I couldn't be bothered doing a character shift to put in a comma, but the full stop didn't require a shift so I used multiple ones....for a pause...
The habit stuck even when on a normal keyboard...
I wasn't even aware I was doing it...until you mentioned it...way back.
'Onest Guv...;-)
Mr. Voice...
Feb 04th, 2017 - 01:30 am - Link - Report abuse -5There are ellipses and ellipses...
There is the kind you used at the beginning..., a bit radom and sloppy...
And there is El Think's neat and proper “...Three ellipses...” signature trademark...
No bad feelings though... Ellipses are a practical thing... As are the letters of the alphabet...
By the way... Have you noticed that Captain Poppy has also begun using them ellipses too...?
I think if this were just dealt with quietly it would not be manipulated by the Argentine press and maybe the Argentine visitors would stop causing damage in order to perpetuate their false victim status.
Feb 04th, 2017 - 11:33 am - Link - Report abuse +3Anglo Turnipette just above says...:
Feb 04th, 2017 - 11:56 am - Link - Report abuse -5“I think if this were just dealt with quietly...”
I say...:
Does she mean as “quietly” as the 2012 vandalism case against the same Virgin...?
By the way...
My badly informed sources on them windblown Islands inform me that the good folks at Gilbert House are Thinking about installing an HD surveillance camera at Darwin...
Where on Earth do our dear MLA's get such brillant ideas from... ;-)
http://en.mercopress.com/2017/01/25/falklands-and-argentine-governments-regret-and-repudiate-damages-at-the-darwin-cemetery/comments#comment459946
Argie turnip just above says....:
Feb 04th, 2017 - 10:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +1“I say...:
Does she mean as “quietly” as the 2012 vandalism case against the same Virgin...?”
However, the Argentine vandalism of 1982 goes unmentioned by you?
I Think it should get recognition because without that crass, foolish, idiotic and illegal Argentine invasion, there wouldn't have been the vandalism noted in the MercoPress article.
Well to be fair ElaineB does have a point,
Feb 05th, 2017 - 12:26 am - Link - Report abuse +1no person should ever show disrespect to the dead and damage their remains.
Roger, “ there was no suggestion of damage to the glass on this occasion ” must have been an “ inside job ” Guv. said the investigating officer,
Feb 05th, 2017 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse +1Your badly informed sources haven't thought the problems through Think, such a) (un-nickable) power supply and b) the camera being the first to get damaged should itinerant argies be looking to cause trouble.
Feb 06th, 2017 - 06:33 am - Link - Report abuse +2And I can't see Argentina paying for it. They don't do much for this half forgotten cemetery as it is. Crumbling away it seems. Even the caretaker doesn't go visit for 2 months. If the Falklands did tumbleweed, that cemetery is where it would head for.
I have wondered whether the doll was attempting to break out golfcronie - the boredom must be terrible in that forsaken spot.
Over the years the cemetery will be less visited so in time it will be “ windblown ” and as you say crumble into dust.
Feb 06th, 2017 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse +1Mr. Roger Lorton...
Feb 06th, 2017 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse -3Silly excuses ..., boy...
As I previously suggsed to the FIG (leaf)...:
- An easy (and cheapo) way to avoid any of these quite embarrassing episodes would be to install a 24 hs. Solar 4G-3G Wi-Fi Ultra High Definition Remote Web Cam on top of a sturdy, ~65 feet tall steel pole... Add some NATO barbed wired rolls at the base and not even the best of Bennies in them windblown Islands would be able to nick nothin'...
If..., by any chance..., somebody..., somehow succeeded in nicking it... we would have them on the Cloud... wouldn't we...?
http://en.mercopress.com/2017/01/25/falklands-and-argentine-governments-regret-and-repudiate-damages-at-the-darwin-cemetery/comments#comment459946
By the way... just “professional” curiosity...
In your time as an Engrish copper in England...
Who would you have rounded up if your local Jewish Cemetery had been desacrated?
The usual suspects... or the Rabbi, the local Jewish community and some Israelian tourists...?
Thynk, if we cared we could solve it, if we cared we could put in surveillance… but we don't. Whose fault is that? - yours, and turnips like you and your puppet, tiresome turnips, troublemakers, liars, thieves, assorted quislings and nabos. A transformation in attitude and abandoning the false claim would be a good start.
Feb 06th, 2017 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Who is WE...?
Feb 06th, 2017 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse +1Are you implying that you have a say...Englishman...?
...says the non-Brit, non-Scot, disembodied Argentine.
Feb 06th, 2017 - 09:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Argentine government should buy a pole and stick a camera on it. After all it is their cemetery , Ah thats no good that would expose the Argies that stoned the effigy.
Feb 06th, 2017 - 10:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Feb 07th, 2017 - 01:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think - minor damage at cemeteries (regardless of religion) Was/is so common it used to be noted in the Occurrence Book and nobody would have been 'rounded up' at all.
Feb 07th, 2017 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse +1And there is no nation like Argieland, with its creed of viveza criolla. Surely an Argie would shoot himself in the foot just to be able to blame another. My money is still on an Argie.
Wonderful ideas as to how to protect a camera Think. Two questions a) wouldn't it be easier to surround Argentina's doll with razor wire, and b) who is paying?
The last question is relevant Think as Argieland does not contribute to the upkeep of the cemetery which, according to the agreements falls to the relatives. Seems the Argie caretaker only pops along 3 or 4 times every year. About time these bodies were shipped back to where they belong. Stop them being used for childish propaganda if nothing else.
Someone above raised the issue of compensation/reparations for the 1982 war. Forget it - a certain Mr. Blair gave that one up ....... for free.
Sloppy police work..., Mr. Lorton...
Feb 07th, 2017 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Happens to be that this “minor cemetery damage” is so uncommon it has been reported in all national papers of Britain and Argentina..., in many international ones..., has been officially condemned and regretted by both our Governments and it is currently on a Crown Minister's desk.....
No wonder your Chief Superintendent granted you that sweet early retirement..., lad...
PC Ventress's system seems to work fine in the auld Engrish land...;-)
Haven't seen anything in the mainstream media.
Feb 07th, 2017 - 10:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The National Enquirer bumped it in favour of the UFO and Two-headed Boy stories.
“Haven't seen anything in the mainstream media.”... says he Anglo Turnip above...
Feb 07th, 2017 - 10:50 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Blind and deaf Anglo Turnip..., says Google first Engrish search page...:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-38742141
news.sky.com/story/falklands-launches-probe-into-appalling-vandalism-at-argentine-war-cemetery-10741845
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/25/falkland-islands-police-investigate-vandalism-at-war-cemetery
www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/argentina-furious-falkland-islands-war-9689421
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/15045079.Minister_condemns_vandalism_at_Argentine_war_cemetery_on_Falkland_Islands/
www.independent.ie/world-news/argentina-war-cemetery-on-falkland-islands-is-vandalised-35396342.html
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/minister-condemns-vandalism-at-argentine-war-cemetery-on-falkland-islands-35396130.html
Etc..., etc..., etc...
(Not to mention them Google search pages in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Swedish, Russian etc.., etc..., etc... as not to poke the Ango monolingual inferiority complex...)
Actually Think, reports have been relatively muted (Oxford mail?) and the matter has already been forgotten by the press it seems. If it wasn't for the political sensitivities with negotiations taking place, it wouldn't have received two paragraphs in the local newspaper.
Feb 07th, 2017 - 11:37 pm - Link - Report abuse +1I hear that the relevant times window has now added October & November to the original December & January. Seems that nobody has been paying much attention for a very long time. If that window widens much more, the whole event will be put down to 'erosion.'
Mountains out of molehills Think, mountains out of molehills.
Juppppp....
Feb 07th, 2017 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse -1Oxford Mail....!
Have a sweet spot for St Antony's College...
You have a soft spot... between your ears
Feb 08th, 2017 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse +1Well..., me dear copper...
Feb 08th, 2017 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse -1Brains ARE indeed quite soft...
They are not supposed to be that soft, old man
Feb 08th, 2017 - 02:20 am - Link - Report abuse +1:-)))
Feb 08th, 2017 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse -1Tempest in a teapot, Think/voice.
Feb 08th, 2017 - 05:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Your softness is not likely limited to your brains - I Think that's why you Voice your bile 24/7
Should we bury some deceased Royal Marines in Buenos Aires and see how long their graves are left undisturbed?
Feb 08th, 2017 - 06:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anglo turnip just above...
Feb 08th, 2017 - 10:29 am - Link - Report abuse +1Already done...:
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1&sort=name&order=asc
Quo usque tandem abutere, Think turnip, patientia nostra?
Feb 09th, 2017 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Looking at the effigy it looks more like a transvestite
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