Binmen who drove round with a large golliwog mascot strapped to the front of their truck have outraged residents.
But passersby in the town, which has residents of many different racial origins, were horrified by the prank - one said the council workers were smiling and laughing at the reactions the lorry invited.
The refuse truck was owned by Woodend Municipal Services - but leased to Reading Borough Council, whose staff used it to collect rubbish from the streets of the Berkshire town.
Local resident Tim Rhodes said that he was shocked when he saw the bin lorry driving towards him in the town centre's Milford Road.
'My reaction was one of complete shock and disbelief. It is the sort of thing you would see in the 1960s but I thought we had all grown up a bit now,' said 40-year-old Mr Rhodes.
'I saw the truck driving towards me and thought it was really bizarre.
'The workers in the cab were smiling about it - they all thought it was really funny. You would have thought someone would have warned them that it just wasn't appropriate.
'The thing that struck me about it was the size of it - it was massive at least 2.5 feet tall. I am amazed.'
The salesman spotted the vehicle at around midday Thursday.
A spokesman for Reading Borough Council apologised for the golliwog incident and said action was being taken against the binmen involved.
'The council has investigated this matter and spoken to the lorry driver,' he said.
But passersby in the town, which has residents of many different racial origins, were horrified by the prank - one said the council workers were smiling and laughing at the reactions the lorry invited.
The refuse truck was owned by Woodend Municipal Services - but leased to Reading Borough Council, whose staff used it to collect rubbish from the streets of the Berkshire town.
Local resident Tim Rhodes said that he was shocked when he saw the bin lorry driving towards him in the town centre's Milford Road.
'My reaction was one of complete shock and disbelief. It is the sort of thing you would see in the 1960s but I thought we had all grown up a bit now,' said 40-year-old Mr Rhodes.
'I saw the truck driving towards me and thought it was really bizarre.
'The workers in the cab were smiling about it - they all thought it was really funny. You would have thought someone would have warned them that it just wasn't appropriate.
'The thing that struck me about it was the size of it - it was massive at least 2.5 feet tall. I am amazed.'
The salesman spotted the vehicle at around midday Thursday.
A spokesman for Reading Borough Council apologised for the golliwog incident and said action was being taken against the binmen involved.
'The council has investigated this matter and spoken to the lorry driver,' he said.
'The employee has been informed of the serious nature of this complaint and his management colleagues are giving further consideration to how the matter will proceed.
'In its role as an employer and a provider of public services in Reading, the council has a responsibility to directly and consistently tackle exclusion, disadvantage and discrimination.
'Reading is an international community and the council celebrates its rich diversity and cultural heritage, working vigorously to combat all forms of discrimination and injustice' continues here
I am glad Reading Borough Council is, “working vigorously to combat all forms of discrimination and injustice”, I mean it’s just not on, treating golliwogs in this way, strapping them to vehicles, they could get hurt. What about their “human rights”……… oh, yes, well now that I know that, I err, retract the above statement, it’s a cuddly toy, people will be harassed and pilloried for selling them, or even displaying them next, oh, they already have been, its not surprising really in this Marxist utopia, I’ve yet to see what all the fuss is about, concerning these cuddly toys, unless, no, are Reading Borough Council endeavouring to say, albeit in a coded way, that golliwogs look like negroes.
Because that would be quite wrong, they are completely unarmed for starters, perhaps the bin-men ought to have placed Noddy on their truck, a reasonably white cuddly toy, no politically incorrect laws breached then, whites can be pilloried, denigrated and ethnically cleansed, so I’m fairly certain, that tying a white cuddly toy to a truck, would be inoffensive, I’m sure people such as Tim Rhodes, who appears to have nothing much to do, except complain about trivial matters, rather than speaking out about, negro gun-crime or the grooming of white school-girls by asian paedophiles, would find it perfectly okay, the mind boggles. 14
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