Western News: April 10, 2018
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WESTERN NEWS Latest Christchurch news at www.star.kiwi<br />
Tuesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2018</strong> 7<br />
Your Local Views<br />
Readers respond to the<br />
article about freedom<br />
camping outside Burnside’s<br />
Waimairi Cemetery on<br />
Grahams Rd<br />
Local<br />
<strong>News</strong><br />
Now<br />
Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
Cherry Cornelius – Once<br />
again they are not freedom<br />
campers, they do not have<br />
facilities in their cars such<br />
as a toilet, shower or enough<br />
water for their needs. They will<br />
be there so they can use the<br />
running water which is in every<br />
cemetery for hand washing.<br />
They will be doing the washing<br />
– dishes, body and clothing.<br />
I’m willing to bet most will be<br />
urinating behind the fence. We<br />
freedom camp, the difference<br />
is we have complete self<br />
containment.<br />
They are free-loaders and free<br />
litterers. Please don’t ever put<br />
us in the same category as these<br />
people that are free-loading<br />
their way around our country.<br />
We have paid huge amounts of<br />
money to be self contained and<br />
respect and love our travelling.<br />
Andrea Lamont – I see<br />
this as a golden opportunity for<br />
scaring the living daylights out<br />
of them. Horror movie theme.<br />
Oh such fun.<br />
Davena Shields – If they’re<br />
only there overnight and not<br />
causing trouble or defecating<br />
everywhere, then I can’t see the<br />
problem. Sorry, but some people<br />
need to get over themselves.<br />
There are families out there who<br />
have real struggles of their own<br />
everyday.<br />
Helen Leggatt – To those<br />
who say they’re doing no harm,<br />
I suspect you’d think very<br />
differently if they were parking<br />
outside your driveway, leaving<br />
stained toilet paper, remnants<br />
of cooking/food, and rubbish at<br />
your fence line.<br />
It’s not the location, per<br />
se (although I think using<br />
cemeteries is somewhat<br />
disrespectful, not to those in it,<br />
but those who visit loved ones)<br />
but what they leave behind. The<br />
rubbish down the Waimakariri<br />
Gorge from freedom campers<br />
can sometimes be gross.<br />
COMPLAINTS: Freedom campers are drawing criticism from residents for parking outside the Waimairi Cemetery in Burnside.<br />
Kerry<br />
Beardsley<br />
– They are<br />
using the<br />
cemetery and<br />
church steps<br />
to cook food<br />
etc and some<br />
can be quite<br />
intimidating<br />
while<br />
walking<br />
past. It also<br />
seems to be<br />
a meeting<br />
point where they have larger<br />
gatherings.<br />
Pauline Handley – I wonder<br />
when and if the council will do<br />
a survey to see how many at any<br />
given time are actually travelling<br />
freedom campers and which are<br />
people living in vans etc because<br />
of the high rental prices in<br />
Christchurch?<br />
Ben O’Connor<br />
– I hate freedom<br />
campers, they have no<br />
respect for anything<br />
or anyone and they<br />
are so selfish like it’s<br />
there right to do what<br />
they want where they<br />
want.<br />
Cath Milio – We<br />
don’t know if there<br />
are issues.<br />
I would hope they have basic<br />
respect for a cemetery and do<br />
not use the grounds for toileting,<br />
eating etc.<br />
Parking up outside a cemetery<br />
is hardly a crime.<br />
Johnny Alderdice – Some<br />
people must just look for reasons<br />
to get offended.<br />
Stephen Graham – No class<br />
at all these particular freedom<br />
campers.<br />
Stephanie Hagerty – Are<br />
there public toilets there or do<br />
they use the cemetery?<br />
Daisy Graham – If motels<br />
and camping grounds were<br />
more affordable, maybe freedom<br />
campers would not be a<br />
problem.<br />
Graeme Palmer – At<br />
least they are not parked in the<br />
cemetery.<br />
John Baxendine – Need to<br />
make places for them all over<br />
the country.<br />
Kim Button – Yes, I saw<br />
them there recently – I find it a<br />
bit strange.<br />
Sarah Spencer Smith – I<br />
heard that freedom campers<br />
were parking inside the<br />
cemetery.<br />
James David Foote –<br />
Get over yourselves. Do the<br />
cemetery’s residents seem<br />
upset?<br />
Dean Comyns – Rubbish<br />
everywhere last time I went past,<br />
and the same van in the same<br />
spot as the picture, annoying.<br />
Wendy Woo – Get over<br />
yourselves, you’re lucky you have<br />
a home.<br />
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