Jessica Ennis postbox vandalised

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-19177730

Anyone got any thoughts about this?

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Reply 1

Liam6993

"Go Jess" is hardly that friggin' bad. Paint over it and move on, it doesn't need to make national news.

Reply 2

linkdapink

It's already been painted over!

Reply 3

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Original post by Liam6993

"Go Jess" is hardly that friggin' bad. Paint over it and move on, it doesn't need to make national news.

That's exactly what I thought. When I saw the title, I expected to see something like the tweets Tom Daley was getting wrote on there, or someone tried to set it on fire or something like that, not what looks like a message of support :tongue:

Reply 4

S1L3NTPR3Y

"Go Jess", it isn't really that bad it was a message of support by a fan, rather than a mindless act of vandalism by a thug as the tone of the article implies. Repaint it yes, but not report it in the news.

Reply 5

AeroLB

So has Murray's apparently...

Reply 6

ThisIsTheLife

I seen this article this morning, and the caption under the picture said:

"A Royal Mail engineer applied a new layer of gold paint to the postbox"

As an engineer (a real engineer...) I was dismayed. But at least they have noticed their error (or had it pointed out to them) and changed it to "employee".

Reply 7

Stevo112

one person who saw the graffiti said; .....

Why couldn't I be that one person? I'd tell bbc to chill out and stop being stupid

Reply 8

username835236

"Go Jess" is more a message of support than vandalism :tongue:

Thought it was a bit of a ridiculous news story myself.

Reply 9

hamijack

No. I have absolutely no thoughts on this.

Reply 10

tonberry

Original post by hamijack

No. I have absolutely no thoughts on this.

Your avatar was literally the face I made it at this thread.

Reply 11

MagicNMedicine

they should have put something like "also available in red LOL" to get this story newsworthy

Reply 12

SirRamAlot

i'd vandalise her ennis

Reply 13

philistine

Couple of things:

1. The postbox was not gold. It was gold-coloured.
2. It is not, has not been, and never will be owned by Jessica Ennis.
3. It could hardly be called vandalism, as vandalism is almost intrinsically ruinous, derisory, or downright vulgar. 'Go Jess' could not be said to be any of those.
4. Who gives a ****?

Reply 14

Darkphilosopher

Did they use brushes (the one the guy in the picture is holding) that size when painting the entire postbox? :confused:

Reply 15

Ash S

As other's have said, just repaint it and move on. It's not like it was malicious.
The only thing that could come of making this news is encouraging others do something like this.

Reply 16

Beatrice.

Original post by AeroLB

So has Murray's apparently...

Yeah, well the one in Edinburgh has.

Reply 17

Sheep

I believe this is relevant

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Reply 18

Pastaferian

Original post by S1L3NTPR3Y

it was a message of support by a fan, rather than a mindless act of vandalism

I'm thinking it was both :smile:

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 19

Zangoose

Original post by philistine

1. Thanks detective.
2. Irrelevant.
3. So lets suppose someone scratched "Go <insert your name here>" on the surface of your brand-new car. That would be okay with you? And before you tell me that you can't compare a postbox with a car, well, in this context you can. No one should be writing any unwanted messages on properties or objects that don't belong to them.
4. The people rightfully concerned about unauthorised messages appearing on their stuff give a ****.