Injured Troops Abused at Swimming Pool

[londonpride]

Whether you agree with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan surely the troops who have been injured there shouldn't be treated this way.

[Soldiers who suffered appalling injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan were verbally abused as they swam in a public swimming pool.

During a weekly rehabilitation class at a council leisure centre, 15 servicemen – including several who have lost limbs or suffered severe burns – were heckled and jeered by members of the public.

One woman was so incensed that the troops were using the pool at Leatherhead Leisure Centre in Surrey that she told them they did not deserve to be there.

She became increasingly abusive, screaming that it was wrong for staff to rope off a lane exclusively for the injured personnel from the nearby Headley Court rehabilitation centre.

The swimmer, thought to be in her 30s, is understood to have said: "I pay to come here and swim – you lot don't."

The abuse was witnessed by 79-year-old Korean War veteran Charles Murrin, who said yesterday: "I could not believe what she was saying.

"The lane was roped off, which they do every week. It wasn't as if the pool was completely closed. Her group had the rest of the pool to swim in. ]

Didn't this particular woman realised that she may have paid but those young men paid with more than money.

Iapologise if this has been posted before but I haven't quite got my bearings on the site yet.

[Peg]

They should've drowned her.

[spot]

That's from today's This Is London? I don't think it's been widely reported elsewhere.

It's an outrageous event. I hope the two people concerned are both asked in public to justify their behaviour. What they did is appalling and they should be utterly ashamed of themselves if the report's accurate.

Linda Sinclair, of Leatherhead, also witnessed the abuse. She said:"It was a few people that were complaining and it made me cross. I really felt for those soldiers."

The incident, which took place on November 13, came as a national appeal was launched to raise £5million to build a new rehabilitation pool and gym at Headley Court. The centre treats 180 injured servicemen who have to make a half-hour trip to Leatherhead to use the pool.

Last night, Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, a former infantry commander, told of his dismay at the incident. He said: "It may well be that these people had paid for the use of the pool, but our soldiers have paid so much more for their country." A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "We are disappointed that a small number of people objected to the closure of swimming lanes so that patients of Headley Court could use them." A spokesman for Mole Valley District Council, which owns the leisure centre, said: "There appears to have been a rare incident where two members of the public queried the provision of lanes of the swimming pool for Headley Court. While we wouldn't condone what happened, staff did their best to accommodate all concerned and acted professionally in dealing with the situation."

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/a...ren/article.do

[el guapo]

Originally Posted by Peg

They should've drowned her.

then revived her and drownd her again

[freetobeme]

Complete idiots, they must be suffering from a bad case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome )





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[spot]

Originally Posted by freetobeme

Complete idiots, they must be suffering from a bad case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome )

In Leatherhead? They're heartless Conservatives, you can't live in Surrey unless you're a Conservative.

[freetobeme]

Originally Posted by spot

In Leatherhead? They're heartless Conservatives, you can't live in Surrey unless you're a Conservative.

??? conservatives can suffer from BDS too, but I bet Letherdale isn't all conservative -





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[spot]

Originally Posted by freetobeme

??? conservatives can suffer from BDS too, but I bet Letherdale isn't all conservative -

There's eleven constituencies in Surrey:

Epsom and Ewell
Esher and Walton
Guildford
Mole Valley
Reigate
Runnymede and Weybridge
Spelthorne
Surrey East
Surrey Heath
Surrey South West
Woking

and only one of those didn't return a Conservative Member of Parliament at the last general election, and it sure as hell wasn't the Mole Valley! The inhabitants of Guildford, bless their little cotton socks, elected the Liberal candidate in a moment of whimsy.

I concede that you don't have to vote Conservative to actually live there, residents do after all need cleaning staff, but you definitely do to be allowed to use the local swimming pools - Labour voters would be even more abused than servicemen in rehabilitation classes. Half the inhabitants of Leatherhead are refugees from the collapse of apartheid in South Africa, where do you think the town got its name from.

[spot]

What on earth is it about these godless freaks in Surrey?

A soldier home on leave after being injured in Afghanistan was refused a room by a hotel when he showed his military ID card at reception.

Corporal Tomos Stringer, 23, from Gwynedd, was visiting a wounded colleague in Surrey when he was turned away from the Metro Hotel in Woking. He spent the night in his car after being told it was management policy not to accept military personnel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7596798.stm

The place should be closed down forthwith. The owners should be thrown out of the country. The MP for Woking should resign. The hotel manager should fall on his sword. Bloody Surrey of all places, they keep on doing this sort of thing.

If anyone wants to dig a bit, the hotel's owned by

American Amusements Limited
The Big Apple
Crown Square
Woking
Surrey
GU21 1HR

Phone: 01483 727100

They don't sound American, they sound rather more South African actually. Or, I suppose, Dutch.

Oh - they refused to allow me to inspect their Shareholder Register at their Registered Office as well despite "Any person may require a copy of a company’s register of members, or of any part of it, on payment of such fee as may be prescribed". They sound as though they're pulling up the drawbridge and fending off a siege.

[fuzzy butt]

Umm frankly I couldn't give a toss who is using the roped off area. In public pool etique the roped off section is used for a specific purpose (in this case the rehabilitation of injuries ) and it doesn't matter what creed, religion, political belief, community service etc. it is used for ......the roped off area is a private area for the use of:

You have someone who has objected to this ..................that's it, plain and simple. Anyone using this area, and had abuse hurled at them would have felt the same way. quite shocking really for anyone using the pool in this regard.


spot have you obtained the magistrates copy yet of the other matter in that other thread?? Just wondering actually. oH the reason I ask is that i have a soli and a police prosicutor interested . thanks