A fed-up Englishman has told off a young man after catching him mindlessly smashing a hole in an ancient dry stone wall instead of finding a way around it.
Local man Paul Walker posted footage of himself on his Facebook page The Dog Man confronting the youth, who is of Pakistani or South Asian appearance, in Lower Darwen, near Blackburn in the north of England this week.
He wrote in the caption: “Apologies for my language! Does anybody know this little scrote? There was no hole in that wall when we arrived. Heading back to the van and spot this little twat smashing up a drystone wall just for something to do.”
The young man can be seen with a large stone in his hand as Mr Walker approaches him and asks: “What are you smashing the wall down for?”
“What are you smashing the wall up for?” he asks again.
The youth, who is wearing headphones, gestures that he is trying to get through the wall, and Mr Walker responds: “I don’t care, it’s not your wall.”
He then tells the wall smasher to choose one of two paths to get around the wall, and says “this is not your property, dude”.
“It’s a dry stone wall, it’s been up for hundreds of years, dry stone wall, hundreds of years, costs thousands of pounds per metre to put it right, and you think you can come around here and smash a fucking hole in it because you want to get through?” he continues.
“What are you recording me for though?” the vandal asks.
“To put you on Facebook,” Mr Walker replies.
The video attracted thousands of comments, with many joking that he was a “engineer” – a reference to ridiculous claims about asylum seekers by open borders advocates that has now become a meme.
Others joked that he was “after a goat in the next field” or asked why he didn’t just climb the wall.
Header image: Left, right, the young man who was tearing down the wall (Facebook).
