Paddington Bear statue: RAF engineers admit damage

by Fire_Otter

28 comments
  1. >…have been told by a judge they are the “antithesis” of everything the bear stands for.

    have harsher words ever been said by a judge /s

  2. Some crimes really deserve a kick up the arse and this is one of them. They should have been sentenced to being kicked up the arse as well as the other punishments. We should definitely legislate for kicking up the arse as a sentence.

  3. Obviously terrible, but I won’t pretend I haven’t done naughty things while out drinking when I was younger. Many a street sign and traffic cones were procured, replaced somewhere else, or I’d wake up with them in my garden

  4. Are the RAF likely to punish them too? Or would that only be in the case if they were pilots? I don’t know how the armed forces deal with these things.

  5. I’m sure their CO has some choice words for them when they return to work. If only I could be a fly on the wall for that bollocking.

  6. These two idiots totally deserve their just rewards.

    However the photo of Paddington sitting in the driver’s seat of a cop car is sending me.

  7. Why are they still employed?

    We don’t want scumbags in the RAF or Armed forces, so can these scum be removed from these roles and go fend for themselves like everyone else who doesn’t get paid thousands to get drunk then vandalise?

  8. >the remains of the statue had to be covered with a bin bag to prevent it from upsetting children.

    Oh for fuck’s sake

  9. I had to do a double take when I saw the Mayor of Newbury, he’s uncannily like a statue too

  10. I’m not from Newbury but I was at a market there on Sunday, and my stall was right next to the bench. I couldn’t BELIEVE the number of children who came up to the bench during the 8-ish hours I was there and asked their parents where Paddington was. I knew people were (understandably) upset at the vandalism but until Sunday I hadn’t really grasped just how much it meant to people locally.

  11. I think that community service and maybe some minor punishment or demotion in the RAF is fair here, but we shouldn’t be ruining the lives of two young 22 year old armed forces lads that did some stupid vandalism when they were drunk.

    One important mitigating factor is that they just yanked the statue off the bench rather than using power tools or something. Shows it was just a stupid spontaneous thing rather than anything premeditated.

  12. Some serious brain melting going on amongst the gammonati at the moment.
    Desperate for it to be immigrants to blame, turns out it’s two of our chalky-white “brave boys”.

    Giant poppies in the bin all over the shop.

  13. Hopefully now as a nation, we can grieve for the marketing prop for the movie launch of Paddington 2 made from cheap polyurethane snapped in half by two drunken RAF engineers and move on.     

  14. That was a nice statue enjoyed by everyone. I am beyond shocked that members of the RAF were responsible. Hopefully they get punished and bear the cost of replacing the statue.
    Why are you even drunk in public? Gosh. Keep your drunken shenanigans confined to your barracks. Leave community property out of it

  15. I wonder if the RAF will discipline them. Many other employers fire people for the most tenuous out of work behaviour in order to protect their “reputation”.

  16. Some cretins damaged the penguins on Redcar seafront over the weekend too 🙁

    Why can’t we have nice things?

  17. Having spent many a ski/snowboarding holiday and a weekend or three on the booze with a load of RAF engineers this is not the high quality theft and mischief I would expect from them, this doesn’t seem to have any “Sport” and is just lowly vandalism sadly.

    Now, removing a suspended ski school sign (13 foot half a log) and getting it up 2 elevators and many many steps to attach to the inner ceiling of the chalet is 100% the high level of cheeky theft I would expect….. **Allegedly!**

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