1y ago

Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue

metro.co.uk

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12878654

A pensioner has been caught on CCTV apparently spraying the word ‘b******’ onto the plinth holding a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister.
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Its installation was controversial and it has been egged and spat on – with some jokers even marking the statue as a public toilet on Google Maps.

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1y ago

Pensioner caught on camera spraying graffiti on Margaret Thatcher statue

metro.co.uk /2024/03/06/hunt-pensioner-defaced-margaret-thatcher-statue-slur-20414158/

63 comments

Cool. Crime but who cares.
Now the important question. Who the fuck paid 300k for a statue of her.
If public funds were involved. That's a fucking hanging offence.
If not. Tut tut typical sign of tory refusal to invest in mental health.
- That's a bargain price for a public toilet these days.
  
  Yeah but when you shift in a public toilet. It takes it away.
  So unless they gave they statue a realistic digestive tract.
  Its a useless waste.
That lady (the pensioner, not Thatcher) deserves either a rise in her state pension and/or a New Year honour, perhaps a Baroness....?
- Replace the public urinal this pensioner graffitied with a statue in her honor.
Someone marked the statue as a public toilet on google maps, now that is kinda funny
Imagine building a statue to Margaret Thatcher in 2022
The rude word is given as:
‘b******’
I'm guessing it's ‘bollock’.
- Probably BASTARD since we see D.
- Definitely more probable than 'boobies'
- The image shows it ending with |D. Options:
  BID
  BHD
  BND
  BAD
  The shape of the | means I think these are unlikely: BWD
  BMD
  BJD
  BVD
  If the picture and number of stars are both accurate, and I'm reading it correctly, then I'm at a loss.
  BEHIND wouldn't be censored, I assume, but who idk. British sweating is different than Canadian. You can say "fuck" on TV but not "bloody hell", so there's probably something there in missing.
  
  BELLEND?
  
  ‘Bellend’ maybe?
What a hero
Not all heroes use zimmer frames. But some do.
Would love to be a pensioner able to do petty crime with little repurcussions
Someone still doing important work after exiting the workforce.
Good man.
- *elderly woman
From the article:
A pensioner has been caught on CCTV apparently spraying the word ‘b******’ onto the plinth holding a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister.
Then the photo shows the word ending in a D
So what’s the word? Blowhard? Behead? Bedraggled?
What did the pensioner say?
Incredibly based
More of this please!
Good.
Someone mail her more spray paint.
Better yet, have 20 gallons of magenta paint delivered to her.
We must encourage this new genre of art!
Uncle Comrade<3
Feels a bit late to be protesting her
- But a fair time to protest the statue of her
  
  That's true
How is Thatcher still triggering people so much?
She stopped being PM 34 years ago and has been dead for 11 years.
Get the fuck over it.
- A lot of the issues we have today stem from her privatisation and the north has never recovered. Her effect on the country has not stopped just because she's no longer PM and ultimately dead.
  
  Yes, it's been so awful that no government has ever wanted to reverse it.
- Please for the love of god just do the bare minimum research. It'll stop you looking like an ass.
  
  As an American, I have no fucking idea what margret thatcher is
- Her actions are still negatively influencing peoples lives to this day. You should stop being such a bootlicker.
- Should we just forget about all the villains of history and allow ourselves to continue being taken advantage of then?
  Forgetting what happened is why we vote in wankers again and again. Only the idiotic don't learn.
  
  "Villains of history"? She wasn't bloody Hitler.
- It's the 40yr anniversary of the miners strikes.
  
  ...and?
  What does putting graffiti on a statue achieve with regards to that?
- The real question is how are right-wingers still fetishizing Thatcher so much?
  When that ends, then resisting it can end.
  
  That is also weird because we haven't had anything close to Thatcherism since she left office.
- The stature is new.

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