There's been some backlash in our area after our Council did some upgrades on our foreshore in the harbour. I like what they've done, more open space, more sheltered modern areas with tables, cement paths etc and a big tiered area overlooking the ocean, its mint. Of course there's been some locals greenies whining about it but they are the kind of people who don't even go near it and never did, they just like to make noise. Anyway.........
Last night my wife and I went for a walk around the harbour and came back through this new area and there's a bunch of people under one of the new shelters with a fire lit on the coloured cement. I was pretty gobsmacked actually, I can't see what kind of thinking would make you think thats okay? Anyway, there were a whole bunch of them so I decided against taking them all on only to have them see me get in my car twenty feet away and kick the doors in. I rang the local Police and said I was pretty unimpressed by tourists parked on the grass in their bongo hippy shitbox van but more pissed off that they had lit a fire on the new cement. The smart arse bitchy Police woman said "Sooooo, call the fire brigade, we don't put out fires" and scoffed at me. I was pretty pissed off actually, I told her that she can call the fire brigade while they are in their car on the way there to shift the destructive pieces of shit on and she giggled at me, saying I sounded like a guy who cared too much. I told her that she sounded like everyone else complaining about the new development there and I expected more from the Police and said that if she didn't have someone get there lazy arse down there to stop these fucking dero's wrecking the stuff that I pay huge amounts in rates for then I'd mow the lot of them down in my car. She puffed her chest out again and said she'd ring the fire brigade on my behalf, took my number and name etc and tried to end the call. I stopped her and asked again if she intended to do anything and she said she'll talk to her supervisor. I assume that was code for "fuck off, we're not doing that petty shit".
I haven't actually felt let down by the local Police before but that really pissed me off. I did the adult thing by not kicking someone's face off for wrecking the nice new stuff then I cop attitude from some bimbo that just got out of the Academy and couldn't care less about the place she got assigned to.