Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have extinguished a picnic bench fire in East Cowes tonight (Monday).
A retained appliance from East Cowes was mobilised to a fire in the open, which transpired to be a picnic bench well alight.
Crews were called to Victoria Grove Park, off Victoria Grove, at 22:45.
Firefighters used a hose reel jet to extinguish the fire located near to the skate park.
The incident was brought to a close shortly before midnight.
It’s a shame the scum who did this, couldn’t be found and make them pay for a new bench. You can’t seem to have anything these days, kids are either smashing it, burning it or stealing it.
Oh, and take away something they cherish in their sad little lives like, their mobile phone, Xbox, playstation. See how they like it. Mindless idiots.
They will brag about it to someone, then once found out, something that they hold dear, should be taken and burned in front of them. Once they have finished crying about it, then they can go home and work out how they will pay for the bench to be rebuilt and how they will rebuy what they lost.
of course that will never happen – some soft soap hand wringer will make an excuse about a troubled childhood – yadda yadda
Find the children look at the parents and there lies the problem
Trouble is parents have lost most of their rights to bring up their kids, even schools have little power.
Kids are now dragged up buy the state, and kids know it……welcome to snowflake Central..
If caught they should be forced to replace the bench
If they are users of the skate park they should be banned for life as public money was spent for their benefit and this is how they repay us the taxpayers.
If you know who did it please report them as they may just realise what idiots they have been and sort themselves out before it’s too late .
10 lashes, 200 hour’s Community service and pay for there mindless damage…..stuff the lefty snowflakes…
Snowflakes are not always “lefty”. People like you are enforcing a narrative that is not true.
Time and time again !!!
They don’t know the meaning of the word Respect !!!!
Their bored nothing to do ah bless them (not)
Alas discipline is not a word we can use in our life / vocabulary these day’s !!!!
Parents teacher’s police etc mean nothing to these Oiks …
The only things that matter to them is their self’s the BIG I am ….
National service would soon sort out the Men from the Oiks !!!
Unfortunately once an Oiks always an Oik !!!!!
One dY Karma will hopefully catch them out ….
Ahhhh, but the poor little things don’t have anything to do.
Lets build them a nice new skate park in Freshwater so they can no doubt burn it down within weeks…
I see everyone is jumping to the conclusion it was kids. Nothing in the news report says it was kids. Could well have been one of the drunks that use this place as their make shift pub. If they are 16 or older, not a kid.
I don’t know what’s happening on the Isle of Wight but from an outside point of view I personally think that the IOW is now seen from mainlanders an island of unprecedented crime and low employment but also an island that does not seem to welcome any investment. I did live on the island for 10 years and I have to say looking back over the past 9 months, I’m absolutely elated that I left, and keeping up to date with Island echo, I’m actually now embarrassed that I was once part of the community. I know that many towns/cities across the country experience crime however as mentioned above , the amount of crime on the IOW borders on the Bronx !
It’s no different from anywhere else, it just gets reported more.
Just scum scum scum council built all that to give them someting to do and they do this, next bunch scum we have to take care of roll on the next gen and so on and so on…