Burning Down The Playhouse

Ashes to…

t was just after 9pm on Saturday night when someone noticed smoke coming out of one of the attractions down at the South Beach Playground.

Turns out, some dull spark had decided it would make them pretty damn cool if they burnt down a kids playhouse.

You really have to wonder about the halfwit mentality behind such an act. And you really have to wonder about the parents too.

Chances are, they know. Even if that gut feeling has been buried deep. Under the belief that a bigger boy made them do it.

Luckily, Greystones firefighters were then within minutes, and quickly had the fire extinguished. Before it became a blaze, and took out this wooden structure.

It’s only the second act of vandalism down at the new playground – after last October’s failed musical instrument robbery – so, we’re hardly facing a crime wave here. But, suffice to say, anyone who tries to vandalise a kids playground deserves to be slapped about the head and face. Daily.

Alfie!

We’re talking about a very small minority of eejits here, of course. And just to prove the point, later on Sunday, when an old man was hurt outside Vincent de Paul, a bunch of young kids offered up their jackets to keep him warm until the ambulance arrived.

Later that same day, little Alfie Sutton was brought in by his worried childminder to Sam McCauley’s, where he had a sudden seizure, prompting the staff to close the shop early as they looked after the lad until an ambulance arrived.

That, we reckon, is far more reflective of the kind of people who live around here…