Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Watching paint dry: community service in Harringay
I live near Sth Harringay school and every Saturday there is a group of people doing community service which involves painting the metal fence on Pemberton Rd. That, in itself is fair enough. However, over the last six months or so different groups must have done the same fence a dozen times. I've watched them use chisels and spatulas to chip the old paint off, add primer and then paint the fence over and over again. It's probably the biggest waste of time and resources I've ever seen. Surely:
- whoever runs the scheme could give the participants decent equipment which would take them a millioneth of the time they take using chisels and mini hammers to remove the paint;
- it only needs doing once every ten years (rather than the reverse);
- there is a mile of other things they could be doing which would be useful to the community and give the participants a sense of achievement and be less demeaning (eg. litterpicking, clearing out the New River, removing grafitti, helping old ladies across the street etc).
Does anyone know who runs the scheme?
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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call someone at the youth offending team they may be able to help.
I have always thought a good bit of community pay back would be to walk around picking all the dog turds that litter the area. I'm sure one or two of them belong to their status dogs.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Sadly the only people I have caught allowing their animals to do this are either middle class or obviously mentally handicapped.
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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John, you forgot to mention the 'smug' .. those who've never put a foot wrong and are always full of great ideas in dealing out punishments to the 'scum'
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stephen but i've seen loads of scum let their dogs shit on the street. some of whom were not middle class.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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John if the term "middle class" has not already lost almost all meaning, perhaps you can explain what you mean by it in this context?
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Permalink Reply by letsgoletsgrow on
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community payback is for eighteen years old and over and is run jointly by the probation service and the council
youth offending service is run by the council for young offenders up to 17 years of age
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