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Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 09:36 - Apr 18 by monytowbray
Yes, me minding my own business and laughing at morons who equate that to anti-social behaviour is totally the same as threatening violence on children for being children.
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:19 - Apr 18 by monytowbray
Don’t forget the public beating from adult males who need something to project their inadequate views of themselves through toxic masculinity too. That’s the most important part of said justice.
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 12:55 - Apr 18 by MattinLondon
Probably a good chance that they’ve never heard of Kevin Beattie was or what he meant to many. Not that ignorance is an excuse but it does clarify their actions somewhat.
I still think the Beat would be embarrassed by the display of some of our fans over this. Especially seeing as he spent most of his career being a rebel.
I’d like to see what footage or photos they got from it. Probably looks alright, you don’t leave marks like that without doing something at least half decent.
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 15:50 - Apr 17 by BanksterDebtSlave
People may think that I'm just doing that edgy thing but to be honest I think it's kind'a ok to see statues and such becoming part of the living fabric of a town. Shame about the chipping but it isn't a public hanging and flogging thing imho.
It's not edgy at all Banksy. It's a standard view you would hear at a archaeological/monument conference. It's not a private shrine, it's a public monument placed in the community. It's therefore free to be used, interpreted an reinterpreted over and over again by successive generations. What one part of the community sees as a monument to a world class footballer others see as a good place for a bit of skateboarding action. It's a shame about the damage, but if it stays the test of time it's meaning and use are likely to be reinterpreted many times.
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Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:26 - Apr 18 with 947 views
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:25 - Apr 18 by leitrimblue
It's not edgy at all Banksy. It's a standard view you would hear at a archaeological/monument conference. It's not a private shrine, it's a public monument placed in the community. It's therefore free to be used, interpreted an reinterpreted over and over again by successive generations. What one part of the community sees as a monument to a world class footballer others see as a good place for a bit of skateboarding action. It's a shame about the damage, but if it stays the test of time it's meaning and use are likely to be reinterpreted many times.
Now you mention it I may well have left some shoe rubber on the Heel Stone at Stonehenge!
"They break our legs and tell us to be grateful when they offer us crutches."
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:28 - Apr 18 by MattinLondon
Plus the poster who called them ‘parasites’.
I'll own that. Whether or not someone knows who it commemorates (and with the exception, as (edit) J2 noted, of historically-abhorrent figures), it ought to be a fairly fundamental issue of respect to know not to bang a skateboard off a memorial, regardless of age - even the most vocal defenders in this thread appear to have acknowledged it's something they'd have known better than to do in younger days. So yes, pretty tw*ttish behaviour, I'd say - a "tut" from the sidelines that I'm not sure really merits being lumped in with the others who've gone off the deep end about it, but there we are.
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Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:50 - Apr 18 with 872 views
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:33 - Apr 18 by BanksterDebtSlave
Now you mention it I may well have left some shoe rubber on the Heel Stone at Stonehenge!
Exactly, I would say we all have... Stonehenge is the perfect example, it's been reinvented, graffitid etc since the bronze age. 20 odd years ago I had an incredible argument with 2 senior members of the national Trust on the morning after the solstice. They were complaining about 'hippie kids'climbing all over the stones. I was suggesting they had failed to understand the reinventing of Stonehenge and that these kids had as much right to climb on it as they did to stand around talking pretentious sh1te about it
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Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 14:11 - Apr 18 with 823 views
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:44 - Apr 18 by FoghornGleghorn
I'll own that. Whether or not someone knows who it commemorates (and with the exception, as (edit) J2 noted, of historically-abhorrent figures), it ought to be a fairly fundamental issue of respect to know not to bang a skateboard off a memorial, regardless of age - even the most vocal defenders in this thread appear to have acknowledged it's something they'd have known better than to do in younger days. So yes, pretty tw*ttish behaviour, I'd say - a "tut" from the sidelines that I'm not sure really merits being lumped in with the others who've gone off the deep end about it, but there we are.
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Most people have been fairly reasonable. It's stupid and they need to be told it was stupid and wrong. Then that's the end of it, lesson learnt.
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 13:50 - Apr 18 by leitrimblue
Exactly, I would say we all have... Stonehenge is the perfect example, it's been reinvented, graffitid etc since the bronze age. 20 odd years ago I had an incredible argument with 2 senior members of the national Trust on the morning after the solstice. They were complaining about 'hippie kids'climbing all over the stones. I was suggesting they had failed to understand the reinventing of Stonehenge and that these kids had as much right to climb on it as they did to stand around talking pretentious sh1te about it
This is the first time I have ever disagreed with you, Letrim. While I agree that we can be over reverent regarding monuments and antiquities, if everyone say took home a piece of Stonehenge as a momento, you would fairly quickly have no Stonehenge. I think it is the disrespect for a memorial to someone or something is my issue. Bit like making noise during a minutes silence. The fact that it was a side effect of Skatbording and they did not take a hammer to it is neither here or there.
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Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 16:01 - Apr 18 with 668 views
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 17:09 - Apr 18 by mo_itfc
It's a different discipline. Park skating would use the park, street skating uses things on the street.
People have skated around the ground for years too.
Everything is a real gammon-esque over reaction.
Nice to see someone’s now been doxxed and is getting threats though, particularly considering it’s A) a screen grab of someone not skating the memorial and B) they taggeg the club anyway so I’m sure they’re aware.
Kevin Beattie statue damaged… 🤬 on 17:13 - Apr 18 by monytowbray
People have skated around the ground for years too.
Everything is a real gammon-esque over reaction.
Nice to see someone’s now been doxxed and is getting threats though, particularly considering it’s A) a screen grab of someone not skating the memorial and B) they taggeg the club anyway so I’m sure they’re aware.
I wouldnt mind seeing some clips, but I doubt whoever was recording will post them now...
Huge over reaction. It seems people love to create drama...
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