Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
Two recent visits .A couple of weeks ago walking by Boots a couple having a real slanging match .Near Ladywell dog mess everywhere.
It seemed every other person was walking along eating hot dogs .My coat still retained the smell for ages .
Yesterday I was about to board a bus in Pencester .A woman not a (lady)having an arguement with a chap standing alongside me .,with no intention on boarding the bus .The language was terrible .Chap had two large dogs ,however I did say "do you mind"He did say sorry
Why is there all this anti Social Behaviour .?
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
- Posts: 778
#2
With a lack of police station in Dover its not surprising that the police are stretched as they dont have Dover base anymore, and everything is done out of Folkestone or Canterbury..
Sorry but sharp shooting this morning..
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#3
When did Dover Police Station close it was there last time I walked down Ladywell, it might not be open at night but was still accessible during the day.
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Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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#4
Everytime I want to speak to someone about anything I get transfered to Canterbury as there is apparently no one to talk to there .... and all the files have been transfered.....
could be wrong... but thats what i got told...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#5
we were told on here that the station was remaining open.
thinking about it i walked past the other day and people were going in.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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#6
missed that memo.. my apologies
#7
And back to the thread........Dover has a proportion of eejits who behave badly. So do most towns now. It is endemic.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#8
and that wholly depends on what time you are in town,the watershed starts around 10 am and continues for most of the day.then you get the drunks having a go.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#9
"watershed" Seems to be the only division left in the day. Towns are seldom 'shut' as the opening hours of pubs and shops get longer.
What was once a rain-bow palette has become a pot of brown.
No matter what the time, no matter where the place; with mobile phones one is ever on-call.
As there is now so little order in our environment there is little order in our brains.
What we do here is part of the developing malaise. None of us need wait to meet in order to have our say and to add our tuppence-worth.
Mind you this has been creeping upon us humans for some considerable time;
The coming of electric light made both dawn and dusk meaningless when for millennia they were stark events.
From telephones to television to teleportation...we're doomed I tele!
We can but hope that we, as a species, are at last coming to terms with the modern world. Or, we are losing ourselves.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
not down here tom the town closes at about half 5, just a few people around after that.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#11
I hear you Howard, but I'll leave things as they are...as soon as everybody is back indoors post 5:30pm there may be more to add.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#12
I had quite a good morning in Dover on Saturday, after speaking to businesses about the advantages of using Doverforum to reach new customers, I popped down to the market stalls in Market Square and bought some bread etc and very nice they were too
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,709
#13
Cant say that I find Dover any worse (might even be marginally better) than any other shopping/town centre I have visited in Kent. It is not a Dover phenomenon, it is a societal one.
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
#14
Absolutely. I visit towns across Berks Bucks and Essex as well as Kent for work, and it is all much the same. Homogenised shops and services, homogenised eejits.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#15
As Susan has had only two incidents in two weeks I think we might be better than a lot of other places.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#16
Jan not down there 24/7 . Im working most of the week.Im a frequent bus user and I can tell you there are some very unsavory people hanging around the bus stops in Pencester .One person always wanting a cigarrete even boards the bus and pesters the passangers
#17
Nasty mental health people hanging around wanting attention. Shame on them. Anyone would think they needed support and compassion. And somewhere to go. And treatment. And something to occupy them.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#18
with regard to shops we seem to be doing better than most thankfully no out of town outlet close by.
i was in sandgate earlier and was quite taken aback by the number of vacant shops, plenty of up market eateries and antique shops but very little everyday shops.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
#19
Yes Bern you are probably right .I have compassion for people less fortunate than myself In. my role for six years on DDC Idealt with many social issuies.
My son in law was a mental health nurse for many years,so when one evening on a family outing a lady with issuies acosted him ,his training enabled him to deal with the situation .
I think the authorities are letting these people down .
#20
Sue you are very right in what you say about the certain new tourist attractions we have in Dover lately ref bus stop seat warmers as i like to call them, but these are the same people that have been arrested before told not to do such behaviour again then go back and carry on, its not a place they should be hanging around my son got asked for his pocket money not that long ago by one of these people i couldnt believe what i was hearing , yet still around town asking people .
