Declining state of local journalism

ljonski

just to resurrect an old thread. The local rag after 22 days of silence have now got their paws on the story-following it appearing on local radio this morning. The comments from "Voice of Reason"(Oxymoron) may be a clue to my decision notto appear on TV !

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Hull-coach-driver-praised-falling-ill-wheel/article-1185637-detail/article.html

hollydays

looks like the comments maybe come from the paper-how unprofessional

dacouch

Please tell us more about the sausage roll incident

Halloway

ljonski wrote: »

just to resurrect an old thread. The local rag after 22 days of silence have now got their paws on the story-following it appearing on local radio this morning. The comments from "Voice of Reason"(Oxymoron) may be a clue to my decision notto appear on TV !

http://www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Hull-coach-driver-praised-falling-ill-wheel/article-1185637-detail/article.html

Yes, I saw it today and thought of you!

For those of you lucky enough never to have visited the HDM website, I can assure you that those sorts of comments are fairly typical. You might think that the MSE forums are hotbeds of cretinism but it's like Cambridge University here compared to the knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who frequent the HDM comments.

Halloway

dacouch wrote: »

Please tell us more about the sausage roll incident

Well, the Hull incident involved what I think I can fairly describe as a not-too-pleasant chavette and her toddler. She gave the toddler a sausage roll and he/she/it dropped some of the sausage roll. Two eagle-eyed council employees (are they called 'Street Ambassadors' or something?) saw this and asked the chavette to pick up the sausage roll as it was litter and she was liable to a £70 fine for littering.

What ensued was a matter of some lengthy debate. I think she told them to !!!! off and so they issued a fine. She then went bleating to the press and the whole thing assumed a gravitas and importance way out of proportion with the grinding tedium of the original incident set against a backdrop of unrelenting Kingstonian grimness. I forget how it ended. I believe a 'local businessman' (this is Hull-speak for any dodgy market trader currently between prison sentences) stumped up the fine and probably got a bit of chavette action for his pains.

Her main defence (and indeed the defence proffered by many HDM correspondents) was that it was OK to drop sausage rolls in the street because the vermin would eat them.

hollydays

Halloway wrote: »

Well, the Hull incident involved what I think I can fairly describe as a not-too-pleasant chavette and her toddler. She gave the toddler a sausage roll and he/she/it dropped some of the sausage roll. Two eagle-eyed council employees (are they called 'Street Ambassadors' or something?) saw this and asked the chavette to pick up the sausage roll as it was litter and she was liable to a £70 fine for littering.

What ensued was a matter of some lengthy debate. I think she told them to !!!! off and so they issued a fine. She then went bleating to the press and the whole thing assumed a gravitas and importance way out of proportion with the grinding tedium of the original incident set against a backdrop of unrelenting Kingstonian grimness. I forget how it ended. I believe a 'local businessman' (this is Hull-speak for any dodgy market trader currently between prison sentences) stumped up the fine and probably got a bit of chavette action for his pains.

Her main defence (and indeed the defence proffered by many HDM correspondents) was that it was OK to drop sausage rolls in the street because the vermin would eat them.

:rotfl::rotfl:

hollydays

If that was a Ginsters sausage roll,her defence is flawed ,Milord.

PinkLipgloss

Halloway,

Love your recount of the sausage roll incident :rotfl:

Using vermin as defence is an "interesting" angle!

Halloway

hollydays wrote: »

If that was a Ginsters sausage roll,her defence is flawed,,

It wasn't. I am afraid she was the sort for whom a Ginster's sausage roll is, to quote the song, l'inaccessible etoile.

hollydays

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

Halloway,

Love your recount of the sausage roll incident :rotfl:

Using vermin as defence is an "interesting" angle!

Me too,it evokes a sort of cross between "Hobson's Choice " and LS Lowry,with added sausage roll imagery.