Bella D Ball wrote...

HOW VERY DARE YOU!!!!
ALCOHOLISM IS AN ILLNESS AND SUFFERERS SHOULD BE TREATED WITH THE RESPECT THEY DESERVE. YOU WOULDN'T POINT AND LAUGH AT A BLIND PERSON OR SOMEBODY WITH ONE LEG WOULD YOU. IT'S CALLOUS SHALLOW PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO MAKE THIS WORLD A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE IN. AND HAVE YOU EVEN CONSIDERED THAT HE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN DRUNK? HE COULD HAVE BEEN DIABETIC OR ANYTHING. BUT NO, YOU DIDN'T STOP TO THINK ABOUT THAT DID YOU? YOU JUST MOCK MOCK MOCK. HAVE SOME CONSIDERATION FOR OTHER PEOPLE YOU SCUMBAG.

David responds: Exactly what is your point?

Posted by: Bella D Ball  | May 13, 2008 3:54 PM

Anonymous wrote...

Drunks in Rhyl are nothing new, I actually get a bit jealous and wish i could sit in the pub all day, every day.

David replies:

I'm sure you could sit in the pub all day, every day down in Conwy if you really wanted to.

Posted by: Anonymous  | May 13, 2008 8:12 PM

Judi Hewitt wrote...

My father was found slumped over a neighbours wall, looking for all the world like he was drunk - he was dying from a heart attack you moron! Not everyone stumbling down the street is a drunk!
I've said it before and I'm saying it again, how the hell did you get the job as a reporter? Our dog Holly has more intelligence than you.
But then exams are getting easier, your sort wouldn't have stood a chance years ago. It's bloody worrying that many kids are leaving school with defective grades and unfeeling personalities.
But then your sort probably get off on being told off. What a world, when people like you are given a job as a reporter.
Trouble is, you'll only ever be a reporter working for a small newspaper and earning a paltry wage. Until you rub the wrong person up the wrong way at work, then you might become that drunk stumbling across the road being laughed at by some other moron with his brains where his arse is.
Life has a habit of paying you back - remember that!

Posted by: Judi Hewitt  | August 16, 2008 2:20 PM

Kath A wrote...

I enjoy taking time out of my busy day to read these blogs and I wholeheartedly agree that the seagulls are a huge problem in rhyl as a dear friend of mine recently was attacked whilst eating her lunch outside boots the chemist.

I am truly shocked about the harshness of the comments made towards the reporters who blog on here as at the end of the day they are expressing their own opinions about how they view rhyl "day to day". Just because of what they write it doesn't mean that suddenly people will start patrolling rhyl high street with guns shouting "PULL"!!! People have minds of their own.

I wonder how you would all feel if you were walking along eating your veggy pasties and a seagull swooped down and nearly took your eye out!!!???

One last thing I would like to add is that the Rhyl Visitor is a REAL paper and I would suggest that if people do not agree then read something else. There are plenty more people who do appreciate the hard work that goes into putting this newspaper together every week. I certainly don't feel that the reporters deserve to be abused when they are working extremely hard to keep the people who live in and around rhyl informed of local issues.

Posted by: Kath A  | August 19, 2008 10:03 AM

Bobbins wrote...

"Morons", prats" and insults galore. I feel sorry for the animals if they have this Hewitt person defending them.

What awful bile.

This is the lad's opinion, it's called a BLOG! Rather than spout a lot of insults give a measured response and one that looks at things from all sides, as reporters do.

And this would not have come to our attention if you hadn't brought it to our attention - it was written in April!!

Posted by: Bobbins  | August 19, 2008 11:53 AM

The Elephant's Leg wrote...

Yes, Judi Hewitt, I too am surprised someone of your standing would stoop to the level of unimaginative insults and name-calling.

Yes, I suppose the man could have been having a heart attack, but anybody who's spent any amount of time in Rhyl would agree the chances were much greater that the guy was indeed blind drunk. You see these types of people on most days in that town and David was just "fortunate" enough to have a bit of impromptu street comedy unfold in front of his office.

Sincerely sorry if I'm wrong about this gentleman, and if that's proven to be the case then I'll gladly retract my comments (as I'm sure will David), but if somebody was to do a survey of the reasons why various people can be found rolling around the streets of Rhyl incapacitated in the afternoon, I'm more than confident David's theory will be proven to have a far higher incidence than yours!

Posted by: The Elephant's Leg  | August 19, 2008 8:19 PM

Bob Jones wrote...

Yes of course he was suffering from a heart attack stumbling all the way down the high street and across the road from Threshers. It is a well known fact that people when they experience this go for a long meandering walk in and out of shops to ease the pain and sickness.

Posted by: Bob Jones  | August 20, 2008 6:26 PM

DAVID WILLIAMS wrote...

Oh dear. This is getting rather personal from the level-headed, animal-loving?? zealots who should really step back and take a look at themselves. They are a sad bunch. Whilst I condemn wholeheartedly anyone who mistreats animals, I think that some of your correspondents should remember that they are free to vent their bile in your newspaper towards those who like a bacon sandwich, and dislike the flying rats defecating on their heads. Go to Barcelona and you will find out what a seagull looks like. It does not look like a flying rat, full to bursting with the contents of binbags and wastebins.
A blog is what it is - one person's observation or opinion. As the poet said, if you don't like it - get a life - and get out of mine! Vive la difference!!

Posted by: DAVID WILLIAMS  | August 22, 2008 7:45 PM

Andy Sauvage wrote...

True, but don't dare disagree with these people, they can't take it.

Good letter by Richard Henderson in the Visitor this week. Perhaps Judi Hewitt like to give a response to that? Probably not.

Posted by: Andy Sauvage  | August 30, 2008 4:54 PM