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Homeless camp at bombing memorial - eating off plaque, using site as a toilet [tr]
Daily Mail ^ | 6/30/15 | Tonkin

Posted on 06/30/2015 12:23:05 PM PDT by pabianice

Rough-sleeping Eastern Europeans have been pictured camping at a memorial to victims of the 7/7 London bombings – eating dinner off the plaque and even using the site as a makeshift toilet – on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

The homeless group were branded 'deeply disrespectful' by survivors after being caught on camera cluttering the Hyde Park memorial with their sleeping bags and suitcases, seemingly oblivious to what it represents.

One witness told how a mourner had gone to pay their respects early one morning only to be confronted by a 'rubbish heap' at the memorial Prime Minister David Cameron is due to visit next week.

Anniversary events are being held to remember the victims of the 2005 suicide bomb attacks on three Tube trains and a bus in Tavistock Square.

The photographs have sparked outrage among survivors and families of the victims.

Jacqui Putnam, who was on a train at Edgware Road that killed six people, told the Evening Standard: 'This is shocking behaviour and deeply offensive to the families of those who died and the survivors. It does not matter where these people are from, this is obviously a memorial and they are being deeply disrespectful. More needs to be done to protect the memorial.'

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To: Mears

They don’t trust banks, probably because one scam artist can detect another :)


21 posted on 06/30/2015 2:34:29 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Bigg Red
Peter Pan's "tinkerbell" got her name from the Irish Tinkers. I think "tinker" is from "tin". They would go around offering to bang your pots and pans back into shape.

ps Tinkerbell isn't real.

22 posted on 06/30/2015 2:42:45 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: pabianice

“On the morning of Thursday, 7 July 2005, four Islamist men detonated four bombs—three in quick succession aboard London Underground trains across the city and, later, a fourth on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. As well as the four bombers, 52 civilians were killed and over 700 more were injured in the attacks, the United Kingdom’s worst terrorist incident since the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as well as the country’s first ever suicide attack.”


23 posted on 06/30/2015 2:48:49 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: HandyDandy

“ps Tinkerbell isn’t real.”

Well, certainly not with that attitude...


24 posted on 06/30/2015 2:49:06 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: HandyDandy

What? Tinkerbell isn’t real?! Noooo!


25 posted on 06/30/2015 2:56:24 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: pabianice

I’m glad we don’t let just anybody into our country.


26 posted on 06/30/2015 3:03:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: pabianice
I see the plaque in the first photo, but I'm puzzled by the "stakes in the ground" memorial. What do they represent?


27 posted on 06/30/2015 3:10:04 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: pabianice
Same things that Obama and some of the Supreme Court Judges do to the Constitution
28 posted on 06/30/2015 3:17:53 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Red Badger

They are Amish gypsies


29 posted on 06/30/2015 3:22:42 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: 2banana

Pah, I refuse to class these ‘people’ with the Romani gypsies who have been in the UK for about 500 years. Decent folks, not these scum.


30 posted on 06/30/2015 3:56:43 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: HandyDandy

Written by a great Scot, JM Barrie.

I have been in his birthplace/museum twice, and used to travel to his birthplace of Kirriemuir. Lovely wee place. The museum is also worth a visit.


31 posted on 06/30/2015 3:58:08 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman

Well, he wrote a classic. It was he who made the fairy a tinker. And gave her a voice like a bell. A tinker was like a traveling tin smith.


32 posted on 06/30/2015 4:16:40 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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