I heard from one of the crime watch managers, who recieved a complaint of disruptive behaviour from a member of the public, of fisherman on the bridge, which is a pedestrian walkway.
(bear in mind that the "no fishing " sign is constantly vandalised and removed)
Anyway, on investigating, they asked the guys to move, they did not, (claiming a constitutional right to fish anywhere they like...
) so a call was put into the rangers. The rangers reacted to the call, and everyone except one guy moved off the bridge willingly and fished from the bank. The one guy apparently became abusive and began using his rod as a "fighting stick" thus breaking it. The rangers were forced to phsically manhandle the guy off the bridge.... the cops were also involved at one stage, but I don't know when this happenned. Anyway, it looks like another case of very poor and irresponsible newspaper reporting, looking for any sensationalism in an effort to discredit the authorities.
I just wsh that the storyy would be evaluated from both sides, and reported objectively before going to print. It creates the wrong impression.
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