Rusty car in garden - Shock - Horror!

[Timewaster]

From our local "news"paper website - the Cambridge equiavalent of the Daily Mail:

 

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Ely/Cal ... d-yard.htm

[Angrydicky]

Rusty old car?? That's an Austin A30

[Lankytim]

Someones "flytipped" a car and a load of old microwaves? Whats the scrap like round there? 50P-per-ton??

[meggersdog]

That's what happens when a Soham school get rid of it's caretaker.

[Timewaster]

That's what happens when a Soham school get rid of it's caretaker.

Oooh! Nasty.

[meggersdog]

Yeah,sorry Tontops.Thought I might be in for some stick with that post.

[pogweasel]

Oh now that is naughty.

[barrett]

what are they moaning about? Thats what everywhere looked like in the 70s* ''children walk to school through it'' - grow some stones! if i had kids i'd force 'em to walk to school over waste ground, whilst muttering things like ''kids these days -they don't know they're born!''i'd love it if more places looked like that, loads of scrap waste, shagged old motor, it's like a budget adventure playground!*mainly learnt from watching the sweeney. may not actually be true.

[Slaighty]

Waste ground featured heavily in my 70s childhood. Along with old houses awaiting demolition (serious deathtraps in hindsight), and ww11 air raid shelters that always smelt of piss with old johnnies in there.I grew up in a "New Town" so saw a lot of this as the old victorian stuff was bulldozed

[ashmicro]

*mainly learnt from watching the sweeney. may not actually be true.

Made me LOL like a loony

[Albert Ross]

I read a bit of it......... They can't spell rubbbish* properly, and WTF is the "Soham Masterplan"? Sounds like a bank job. Hope they weren't hoping to use the Austin............*sic

[eggy]

That looks perfectly acceptable to me,not realy a story though is it.When my local paper has a slow week it knocks on prostitutes doors and take pictures of them,they usually look shocked.

[Mr H Sceptre]

That's what happens when a Soham school get rid of it's caretaker.

Hahahaha sorry, but thats hilarious. Wrong. But hilarious!

[Mr H Sceptre]

what are they moaning about? Thats what everywhere looked like in the 70s* ''children walk to school through it'' - grow some stones! if i had kids i'd force 'em to walk to school over waste ground, whilst muttering things like ''kids these days -they don't know they're born!''i'd love it if more places looked like that, loads of scrap waste, shagged old motor, it's like a budget adventure playground!*mainly learnt from watching the sweeney. may not actually be true.

Everywhere was like that though.Plus, The Sweeney wasnt filmed on any set, so all the scenes are 100% real.

[Pillock]

I was having much the same conversation recently, every few weeks they drag all the flytipped scrap and whatnot out of the bushes next to the playing fields as it's a health and safety hazard for kids.WTF?It's great for kids! They like playing with old tumbledryers more than the playground! It reminded me that my ma used to take me to Riber Castle, near Matlock - they had a 'playground' which was a few ex-army trucks and what appeared to be a delivery van. This was early 80s and they were rusted out scrap then so they were easily 25+ years old. I loved the place, clambering through the windows, jumping off the roof of the armoured stuff. There was broken glass in the dashboard dials, wires hanging down, jagged metal..... PROPER playground fun. Used to have to fight the other kids to get in the drivers seat, try and impale them on a rusted gearlever.

[Station]

That looks like Birkenhead. Just replace the car with a people carrier.

[Lankytim]

Most of my childhood was spent climbing over abandoned or burnt out cars. I frigging loved it.

[STUNO]

what are they moaning about? i'd love it if more places looked like that, loads of scrap waste, shagged old motor, it's like a budget adventure playground!

And I am sure that could be arranged for your house and yard

[Richard]

what are they moaning about? Thats what everywhere looked like in the 70s* ''children walk to school through it'' - grow some stones! if i had kids i'd force 'em to walk to school over waste ground, whilst muttering things like ''kids these days -they don't know they're born!''i'd love it if more places looked like that, loads of scrap waste, shagged old motor, it's like a budget adventure playground!*mainly learnt from watching the sweeney. may not actually be true.

Everywhere was like that though.Plus, The Sweeney wasnt filmed on any set, so all the scenes are 100% real.

Some members of the Sweeney forum have done "now and then" pictures and in nearly every case the "now" picture is cleaner tidier, though often much more cluttered with road signs.http://www.thetvlounge.co.uk/sweeney/I think you have to be a member to see the pictures and some of them are no longer there.

[saabhappy]

I wonder how many of the people who think having a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them actually have a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them? I suspect they'd be singing a different tune then and their neighbour's personal liberty would be right at the bottom of their list of priorities.Just a thought.

[Mash]

I loved playing on waste land when I was a kid, making dens out of corrugated iron and chucking bricks at each other. We also had a ditch to drown in if we wanted and a Renner 6 with old poo on the seats.It probably was a bit dangerous actually....

[pogweasel]

I wonder how many of the people who think having a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them actually have a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them? I suspect they'd be singing a different tune then and their neighbour's personal liberty would be right at the bottom of their list of priorities.Just a thought.

I have read this several times, and on each occasion it has made my brain hurt. Mindfuck.

[saabhappy]

I wonder how many of the people who think having a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them actually have a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them? I suspect they'd be singing a different tune then and their neighbour's personal liberty would be right at the bottom of their list of priorities.Just a thought.

I have read this several times, and on each occasion it has made my brain hurt. Mindfuck.

I'm sorry, but I've read your answer several times and it still makes no sense. Mindfucked.

[Guest]

Rusty crap is only a problem if you care enough to be bothered about it, I'm more bothered about barking dogs, shrieking kids and sodding lawnmowers - all of which are accepted to be part of the suburban "dream".

[jonny69]

what are they moaning about? Thats what everywhere looked like in the 70s*

Most of London looked like that in the 80's, until it all became too expensive to leave houses derelict and back gardens piled up to the top of the walls with rubbish.

[saabhappy]

That Bubonic Plague was a real larf! Happy days!

[pogweasel]

Thanks Sir T-B, much clearer now.

[saabhappy]

Phew! Crisis averted.

[brammy777]

I cant say I know of any places round here with that in the back garden, people seem to do more 'interesting' things inside them. I guess that house I saw in Fleet was the nearest thing to it, but other than the 5 cars and caravan it wasnt too bad. Plus the cats looked pretty comfy in the cars.I guess I missed out on wreckage climbing frames as a kid, all I got was drug needles in slough, niceee.

[barrett]

I wonder how many of the people who think having a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them actually have a pile of rusty crap and general decay next door to them? I suspect they'd be singing a different tune then and their neighbour's personal liberty would be right at the bottom of their list of priorities.Just a thought.

I dont think too many shitists would be too worried about it.... there is one house down my road (very middleclass suburban street) that is falling apart, with a borked MGA in the back garden, I love it, it's the only interesting place in the whole neighbourhood.