Hope they cleared up after them.....

Paul K · 11-03-2005, 11:52

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Dog walkers face Army guns risk
Dog walkers and youngsters are putting their lives at risk by crossing Army firing ranges.
Trespassers have been spotted on Middlewick firing ranges during practice, according to Udai Gurung who runs the Colchester site.
The range was closed on safety grounds but is now back in use.
The Army is hosting a public meeting in Colchester on Friday to discuss the issue with residents.

'Fences broken'
Mr Gurung said: "After concerns about safety the ranges were closed for six months to allow repairs to boundary fences and danger signs.
"Although this has been done there have been two cases of fences being broken through and we have seen dog walkers on the ranges during danger periods.
"Youngsters have also been seen on the ranges during firing.
"No serious incidents have happened yet and we want to make sure people are aware of the dangers and of our intention to prosecute for trespass.
"We are warning them off publicly for their own good."

WTF are they thinking???

They must have to take bin liners with them to clear up after the poor dogs

Xaccers · 11-03-2005, 13:23

Last weekend on private land where we skirmish near reading we encountered a member of the public tresspassing.
When a marshal approached her to tell her she was on private land and at risk of injury she started having a go at him!

Mal · 11-03-2005, 13:30

It's not like they wouldn't know it was a firing range, is it??? :yikes:

Mad...

MovedGoalPosts · 11-03-2005, 13:56

What about the "right to roam" type legislation that ramblers got recently? I think that allowed them to go virtually wherever they wanted over private fields and stuff, so why not firing ranges too? So they have a death wish.

Mal · 11-03-2005, 14:00

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Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

What about the "right to roam" type legislation that ramblers got recently? I think that allowed them to go virtually wherever they wanted over private fields and stuff, so why not firing ranges too? So they have a death wish.

Lacking common sense more like...

Millay · 11-03-2005, 14:06

Sounds to me like removing them from the gene pool would be doiing all of us a favour, and the dogs would certainly have a hapier life..

11-03-2005, 14:14

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Last weekend on private land where we skirmish near reading we encountered a member of the public tresspassing.
When a marshal approached her to tell her she was on private land and at risk of injury she started having a go at him!

Sounds like a perfect candidate for a (sly) paintball on the butt!!!

AndrewJ · 11-03-2005, 14:54

Mind you whats more lethal a bullet or a dog after a can of Winalot and dropped one...

Escapee · 11-03-2005, 15:05

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Last weekend on private land where we skirmish near reading we encountered a member of the public tresspassing.
When a marshal approached her to tell her she was on private land and at risk of injury she started having a go at him!

I remember when the TA had one of their big weekend excersizes many years ago, the TA centre that used to be next door to me set up a check point on private land that they did not own. I ended up with one TA soldier across my bonnet and another in the hedge, they told me I was not able to pass the checkpoint, to gain access to my house. I called the police and the illegal roadblock was removed, after I was not the only one to complain about it.

Having so called grown ups walking around with guns outside army property, and challenging the public for an excersize is not on.

kobuskint · 11-03-2005, 15:35

I say let evolution have its way.

Xaccers · 12-03-2005, 02:10

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Originally Posted by Escapee

I remember when the TA had one of their big weekend excersizes many years ago, the TA centre that used to be next door to me set up a check point on private land that they did not own. I ended up with one TA soldier across my bonnet and another in the hedge, they told me I was not able to pass the checkpoint, to gain access to my house. I called the police and the illegal roadblock was removed, after I was not the only one to complain about it.

Having so called grown ups walking around with guns outside army property, and challenging the public for an excersize is not on.

Did you have permission to be on the private property or were you tresspassing?

12-03-2005, 02:31

The mind boggles, Colchester has been a garrison town for centuries and locals are so feckin stupid to walk on a range''at any time''.

As was said earlier, maybe this will get some of the defective genes out of the gene-pool.

Morons.....

Escapee · 12-03-2005, 11:00

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Did you have permission to be on the private property or were you tresspassing?

Yes I did have permission, a right of way on our deeds.

The TA seemed to be under the impression they could do as they damn well pleased, their attitude meant that they lost the weekly use of some derelict railway land that they had been usng for years as a result of their attitude.

Xaccers · 12-03-2005, 15:07

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Originally Posted by Escapee

Yes I did have permission, a right of way on our deeds.

The TA seemed to be under the impression they could do as they damn well pleased, their attitude meant that they lost the weekly use of some derelict railway land that they had been usng for years as a result of their attitude.

If they had been given permission to use the land then they may not have been informed that other members of the public also had permission to pass.
As such that would have been the fault of the land owner in no explaining the situation, or who ever in the chain of command who did not inform those at the bottom.

Now if the TA had not actually been given permission to be there then they were tresspassing and should have been dealt with as such.

Graham M · 12-03-2005, 15:12

How's that work Xaccers, its his land isnt it he's talking about!?