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WHAT'S HAPPENING NEAR YOU => Bocking Clubs & Groups => Jurassic Jumpers => Topic started by: Bbmthbloke on June 16, 2010, 07:38:19 PM
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Many of you have bounced around this area of Portsmouth. Still more will have seen the pictures and videos that the JJ's and pro jump 101 have posted. Its a really great site and we have been using it for over 3 years.
Yep on Sunday a very polite lady from the Portsmouth Community Support Team came up to us and said there had been a complaint and as a result she was telling us we couldnt bounce about the area!!!!
Nature of the complaint? Well someone ( we dont get to know who) said we were being disrespectfull to Lord Nelson! Many of you will recall there is a statue of him in the area.
Now we have to do something about this. Now if we make a 'big' fuss the council may take a wider look at us and restrict us. On the other hand I dont think anyone should be pushed about by annonamous complaints of a rather nebulus nature.
If you have any ideas as to how to proceed please put them down here.
As luck would have it, this week Jason posted some pix posted of people bouncing about Trafalgar Square and there were no probs from London City Council. Im also reminded that Nelson himself , at the Battle of Copenhagen, famously ignored his commanding offficers order to withdraw after heavy damage from the Danish fleet and shore batteries. 'Turning a blind eye' and placing his sightless eye to his telescope and claiming to see no signal flags.
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Write a letter to the council asking for the ban to be reconsidered, list good things about bocking and the fact the majority of the public enjoy watching it...
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My first question would be to the council as to how you were being disrespectful
Once they have to actually give you a reason and why you can then make them realise that it is just one killjoy being a prat
And after all Nelson was defending this country and our right to be different so I think he would have suported you
Jason :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
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Hi folks, after one of our members had a chat with the council, we are no longer banned. It was a reaction from a community warden or some such in response to a complaint by a resident.
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Yay :P I am guessing Hotwalls is where we had the BBQ??
DC
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yeah
un im working on some pix from there to post shortly
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i say you take an old pair on stilts, detach lord nelson from thbe ground stick the stilts on his feet and re glue him to the floor
i don't think it's an unresonable action to take :P
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Hehe Parlby we should but stilts on the upside down guy doing a hand stand in Plymouth :P
DC
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the statue at one of the entrances to the mall, hell yeah lol that would be almost as epic as the st paul's statues who are holding dohnuts out side the cathedral in london
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Did anyone actually get a picture of that?
DC
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not moi darn it
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I shall ask Katy then, saw her take a few photo's
DC