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Yesterday while walking through Mudchute Park on my way to Asda I was displeased to see the following posted around the various entrances to the woodland, on laminated bits of A4 (loosely paraphrased).
'Regrettably, due to a number of recent attacks it is no longer advisable for women to walk alone through the Valley. The police have been informed and the parks management is aware of the situation. We strongly advise single women to avoid using the park to approach Mudchute station and instead use other entrances such as via the Crossharbour DLR station behind ASDA'
So, naturally, once I found out ewtikins was due to play a concert in that area later today, we made some handbill-flyers of our own to supplement these ones. They went something like this:
'Regrettably, due to a number of recent incidents, it is necessary to remind men walking alone through the park not to rob, rape, threaten or assault anyone. Thank you in advance for behaving like decent human beings. Signed, single women who refuse to live in fear'.
Ewt has gone to stick them up beside the existing ones. Photos to follow if requested.
ETA 21/8/09 Update: Thank you for the many positive responses. It seems our bit of feminist prankery actually had an effect.
'Regrettably, due to a number of recent attacks it is no longer advisable for women to walk alone through the Valley. The police have been informed and the parks management is aware of the situation. We strongly advise single women to avoid using the park to approach Mudchute station and instead use other entrances such as via the Crossharbour DLR station behind ASDA'
So, naturally, once I found out ewtikins was due to play a concert in that area later today, we made some handbill-flyers of our own to supplement these ones. They went something like this:
'Regrettably, due to a number of recent incidents, it is necessary to remind men walking alone through the park not to rob, rape, threaten or assault anyone. Thank you in advance for behaving like decent human beings. Signed, single women who refuse to live in fear'.
Ewt has gone to stick them up beside the existing ones. Photos to follow if requested.
ETA 21/8/09 Update: Thank you for the many positive responses. It seems our bit of feminist prankery actually had an effect.