giving wild camping a bad name.... (1 Viewer)

[Spriddler]

Yer know, and I'm being quite serious (and not at all flippant about the tragic loss of those brave soldiers) but if I'd been scattered there I'd enjoy seeing a few bikers enjoying themselves.

 

[Podney]

Yer know, and I'm being quite serious (and not at all flippant about the tragic loss of those brave soldiers) but if I'd been scattered there I'd enjoy seeing a few bikers enjoying themselves.

But it might stretch even forces humour if they pissed on you.

 

[Skyway]

Perhaps they are there to stop the monument being defaced by certain other BRITISH people

You mean by arseh..s

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[Kev and Carolyn]

camping on an area designated for the spreading of ashes of soldiers... classy

Looking on the web page and asking the question regarding spreading of the ashes of lost and fallen ones..does not take place around the Memorial at all due to it being open to the public for viewing. According to their site ..the remembrance garden is just a little walk away from the main memorial

Kev

 

[pappajohn]

camping on an area designated for the spreading of ashes of soldiers... classy

I never knew that, what makes you think they did?

 

[tacr2man]

Not newsworthy ?

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[Dan and Jan]

But it might stretch even forces humour if they pissed on you.

I take it you have never had a good night in the Naafi or Sgts Mess.

 

[Jim]

Yer know, and I'm being quite serious (and not at all flippant about the tragic loss of those brave soldiers) but if I'd been scattered there I'd enjoy seeing a few bikers enjoying themselves.

Yes but spreading ashes is for the benefit and comfort for the bereaved not the dead.

 

[Spriddler]

But it might stretch even forces humour if they pissed on you.

Agreed, but the only known facts are that they are bikers and camping.
Day trippers need loos as well.
I guess I'm biased (and have found acceptable ways and means), having been a biking camper all around Europe for 50 years.

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[gerry mcg]

many of the comments here stink of double standards.

imagine the comments that would be here if this were travellers / hippies / people of colour or pinko leftie liberals who had pitched camp - oh, pass the vapours!
It is selfish and disrespectful bad behaviour and should be called out as that.... whoever does it.
imagine turning up to see the memorial at sunrise... to pay your respects to a fallen member of your family and seeing a bunch of campers surrounding the place you came to visit - its the height of disrespect and if they are ex forces, they should be ashamed... but clearly they are embarrisable.

 

[Tykatem]

and if they are ex forces, they should be ashamed... but clearly they are embarrisable.

Operative words there being "if they are"

Pete

 

[Gellyneck]

I'm pretty sure the car park has no overnight parking and camping signs? Well there was a few years back. Did they just ignore these?
Immaterial of the rights or wrongs around respect that in itself detracts from the ethos around wild camping and puts them in a bad light.

edit: looking at the photo in Twatter again I think one off them is pitched next to one of the signs.

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[gerry mcg]

I'm pretty sure the car park has no overnight parking and camping signs? Well there was a few years back. Did they just ignore these?
Immaterial of the rights or wrongs around respect that in itself detracts from the ethos around wild camping and puts them in a bad light.

edit: looking at the photo in Twatter again I think one off them is pitched next to one of the signs.

yip . clearly says “no overnight Parking or camping”

 

[ambulancekidd]

My earlies memory of a motorhome holiday was at the Three Commandos Monument, it was the early 60s & the first & only time I saw my father crying.
Wherever we were in the highlands, we always went to the monument to pay our respects.

I think the guys with the tents are harmless & if they leave it as they found it or better I congratulate them for paying their respects to out marvellous armed forces.

 

[The general]

If they keep it clean and cause no trouble , looks ok to me.

No way should they be there , next to the memorial , there is a remembrance garden to the fallen with tributes , family flowers and the like . It’s nigh on sacred ground . Not happy seeing just down the rd along the Loch there’s a lovely pull in !

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[The general]

I take it you have never had a good night in the Naafi or Sgts Mess.

Not when you have deceased ! Worst things than that happened in the mess !

 

[Gellyneck]

No way should they be there , next to the memorial , there is a remembrance garden to the fallen with tributes , family flowers and the like . It’s nigh on sacred ground . Not happy seeing just down the rd along the Loch there’s a lovely pull in !

and by the looks of it one of them is pitched on the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance.

 

[34127]

and by the looks of it one of them is pitched on the entrance to the Garden of Remembrance.
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If thats a google map then it is probably several years old.

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[Gellyneck]

If thats a google map then it is probably several years old.

It is Google Maps however the layout hasn't changed. The red circles just mark the position of where the tents seemed to be pitched.

 

[34127]

It is Google Maps however the layout hasn't changed. The red circles just mark the position of where the tents seemed to be pitched.

Okay got it

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

My earlies memory of a motorhome holiday was at the Three Commandos Monument, it was the early 60s & the first & only time I saw my father crying.
Wherever we were in the highlands, we always went to the monument to pay our respects.

I think the guys with the tents are harmless & if they leave it as they found it or better I congratulate them for paying their respects to out marvellous armed forces.

Let's hope they don't need to go to the loo. There are no toilets at the memorial.

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[MikeD]

Where are the loo's there?

It's not respectful to be pee'ing (or worse) all over the place.

 

[gerry mcg]

Where are the loo's there?

It's not respectful to be pee'ing (or worse) all over the place.

there are none i’ll leave the rest to your imagination

 

[PeteH]

Ok, So if they/you have any respect, you would endevour to find a place away from there to Urinate. Anyone who needs a No2 can do what we all did. ("SAS" style) bag it take it away and dispose sensibly later. When I was Night Trunking I always had a few Black Bags with me!. Having said that, as Scouts in the 50`s, we where taught to dig and backfill our own latrines. Quote, from a Mate, Ex Forces. "never ask a man with a shovel in the Desert, where he is going".

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[Cess P]

many of the comments here stink of double standards.

imagine the comments that would be here if this were travellers / hippies / people of colour or pinko leftie liberals who had pitched camp - oh, pass the vapours!


Reading the comments through this string it's not too difficult to pick out those that served and those that might be travellers / hippies / pinko leftie liberals.

many of the comments here stink of double standards.

imagine the comments that would be here if this were travellers / hippies / people of colour or pinko leftie liberals who had pitched camp - oh, pass the vapours!
It is selfish and disrespectful bad behaviour and should be called out as that.... whoever does it.
imagine turning up to see the memorial at sunrise... to pay your respects to a fallen member of your family and seeing a bunch of campers surrounding the place you came to visit - its the height of disrespect and if they are ex forces, they should be ashamed... but clearly they are embarrisable.

Reading the comments through this string it's not too difficult to pick out those that served and those that might be travellers / hippies / pinko leftie liberals.

 

[Podney]

Reading the comments through this string it's not too difficult to pick out those that served and those that might be travellers / hippies / pinko leftie liberals.

Fantastic!
And what about the “normal” ones...can you pick them out?

 

[Cess P]

Fantastic!
And what about the “normal” ones...can you pick them out?

What's normal?

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[Skyway]

What's normal?

Well the normal now seam to be f..king whingeing about everything snowflake lefty’s
Turning the world bad

 

[Gellyneck]

What's normal?

That's an easy one.
It's what most Funsters aren't!

 

[peterc10]

What's normal?

Its what everybody thinks they are .................................... but they aren't.

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