Wednesday - September 07, 2011

VILLAGE LIFE AND THE FUN OF CRICKET. UNLESS UR A DAMN FOREIGNER!

Before I get to the post I intended, I’d like to share a wee update to an earlier story with regard to the planned eviction of a group of gypsies illegally occupying some Brit land.  Regular readers will know that efforts to remove them have been ongoing for ten long years.  Currently, there is a large contingent of anarchists advising them, and also hoarding stones in piles in anticipation of the arrival of the bailiffs. Stones are being hauled up to a watchtower they’ve constructed, via ropes and baskets.  But hold on.  There seems to be a non violent solution at hand and the gypos are saying they’re willing to leave.  True. BUT
They are asking for £6 million which in US dollars is ...... 

$9,566,905.14

Don’t believe I’d want to be standing near Chris Edwards or LyndonB right now, if my wife’s reaction is anything to go by. Hell, I don’t even want to be standing by me but I’m stuck with myself.

So now here’s the post I intended.

What kind of damn fool, what sort of stupid idiot dunce buys a property directly opposite a playing field and then complains about the activity there?

What we have here is a typical English village green where Cricket has been played since the 1700’s.

What we also have is a god damned foreigner with money who knows nothing about this country or it’s traditions or culture but will demand that the host village
where she owns the biggest house, quit playing the national game because she says, balls keep coming into her yard. She’s also worried she says, about her kids getting hurt.  Right. Did she think when she and hubby dear bought that million dollar home, that the green opposite was their private preserve?

OK I admit it. I don’t know for a fact she’s foreign except she looks it. And the name, which might mean nothing either. So yeah, I might be jumping that gun by a mile.
But come on, any Brit couple would know how village greens are used and anyway, when you spend a mil, don’t you ask?  You buy a house opposite a green and ask no questions? 

The Chiappinis have lived there for five years. No kid has been hurt, so far. No ball has broken a window. So far.  But hey, why wait?

I once lived on the 7th fairway of a golf course.  Imagine my genuine shock when one day after living there a year, a ball came through one of our windows. Amazing, right? Imagine that will ya.  A damn golf ball thru our window. On a golf course.
There oughtta be a law!  I should have asked them to move the damn golf course.

Woman arrested by police in cricket whites on pitch

Maria Chiappini arrested on Bearsted Green cricket pitch after complaining about stray balls.

By Victoria Ward, and John-Paul Ford Rojas

Since 1749 it has been the sound of their community coming together: the thwack of leather on willow followed by gentle applause during a friendly cricket match on the village green.

But team spirit was evidently lacking from the latest charity game on Bearsted Green in Kent which descended into chaos when simmering tensions between a local mother and the cricket club spilled on to the pitch.

The disruption began when Maria Chiappini stormed on to the green waving her arms and yelling that the match should be suspended because balls kept straying into her garden.

But the scene was to take a further unexpected twist when it emerged that two of the players were detectives from Kent Police, who abandoned play to arrest Mrs Chiappini for disorderly conduct.

Dressed in their cricket whites, the off-duty officers, brothers Det Con Andrew Dampier and Det Insp Ian Dampier took the 41-year-old by the wrists and detained her in the pavilion until a patrol car arrived.

Mrs Chiappini and her husband, John, 53, who own a chain of coffee shops, have been locked in a long-running dispute with Bearsted Cricket Club since they bought their £1.2 million property facing the village green five years ago.

The mother of two said she was fed up with balls landing in her garden and was worried they would damage the property or hurt one of her children.

But she said things had come to a head when she saw one of the players making a rude gesture at her as she arrived home on the Aug 29 bank holiday.

Mrs Chiappini told The Daily Telegraph that as she went over to remonstrate, someone came “charging” towards her. She was grabbed by two men and marched to the pavilion.

THE FULL VERSION OF SOME ENGLISH PEOPLE BEING, WELL, ENGLISH. DASTARDLY ENGLISH BEHAVIOR. INNIT?

Posted by peiper     on 09/07/2011 at 10:40 AM   
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