Morning guys.
It's lovely and crisp this morning.
The sun is shining.
Well done for manifesting the sun.
We are looking to do a live video.
I'm hoping to do it this week.
I was going to do it Thursday, but I've got to go in now and have some blood tests done after work, so it's not very good now because that's going to mess me up.
I'm going to have to come all the way back over here.
I was going to do it over at Pounce Pools here in the pound shop, but never mind.
It's because we've got quite a few beauty products that's been donated.
We do giveaways, but it would be nice to do it on a live as well, and then if you participate in the live, obviously then we can do the giveaways on there, or we've got quite a few beauty products and things that we've been sent by companies and we could do like a one pound evening live sale.
We could do that.
I don't know how to what not.
I'm going to have to tune in and have a look on how to do the what not, but well I want to say we'll do it Friday evening, but I don't know yet.
See how well I am by Friday evening, otherwise they might need to be next week, I think.
So don't forget, now Risca is open today and then it's closed for the rest of the week because we're short staffed.
But we've got a couple of people out this week, people doing theory tests, people moving house.
Hopefully nobody's caught where I go.
Pontipool will be open all week and then it'll be Caerphilly then, Caerphilly Tuesday probably till Saturday.
So right, so anyway, on another episode of What the fuck is Hayley Thomas on, um why on earth she has posted public videos of children grieving is beyond me other than for clout?
I don't understand, right?
It's like giving somebody who's homeless a £10 note and taking a photograph of yourself, or giving somebody who's homeless a £10 note.
You know, which you're not allowed to actually do.
You're not allowed to video vulnerable people because you are exploiting them and they might only agree to be envideoed because they wouldn't get the £10 note otherwise or the sandwich or whatever.
You know, I can understand why she's done the event and I can understand the children being there and being upset and maybe doing a silence or whatever, but do you need to video the children's grief and put it online?
You know, you haven't got their permission to do that because they're not in the right frame of mind to do that.
It's like when you do a DLAR for a patient, they can't, they have to be of sound mind when they're doing the DLAR and they also have to, you have to renew it like every six months depending on their condition because if they've just been diagnosed with stage four or five cancer,
of course they're going to say do not resuscitate, but they, you know, six months down the line, they may be okay.
They may be okay and they may be still come to terms a bit better.
They may decide they don't want a DLAR and they're going to wait it through.
You know, I just, I think those videos are just for clout.
I'm sorry, but why else would you put those videos on if you've videoed it and sent it to the mother so she has a record of it?
Fair enough, but why does the rest of the world and the public need to see it?
They don't.
You could have just put up pictures of the candles and said this is what we did.
You didn't need to video those children crying.
That was awful.
You haven't got their permission.
You know, if you've got, if you've got a three-year-old child and you're putting pictures of that three-year-old child on Facebook, you don't have that child's permission until they're 18 and have capacity to make the decision whether any of the children's photos that you,
you as their parent has put on Facebook, they could sue you for that.
Once they're 18 and they have capacity and they can make decision whether they wanted to be on social media or not, well lots of people put pictures of their children on Facebook.
Lots of people do it, you know, and what's the chances of somebody being sued?
I don't know.
I always say to my mothers don't put any photographs on of your child crying or your child having a strop, any videos of your child having a strop or when they're sick or ill in bed, don't put videos on because it only takes one person to ring the gestapo and say oh look at this child is upset,
this child is upset and it's out of context and it'll be used against you.
And I just think why would you put those children, bearing in mind that those children are upset because somebody's been murdered, right?
Somebody's been murdered horrifically and somebody's seriously ill in the hospital after trying to defend their lives you've just put up faces of every single child that's got any connection with that poor child that was killed that is also vulnerable.
So although the perpetrator is on remand and they throw the bucket in guys and you don't get away with it, as although he's on remand, how do you know he hasn't got any weirdo family and friends?
You know where is your child protection safety training there?
How do you know he hasn't got a bunch of weirdo friends that's going to come along and you know and alive other children?
On the back of that you've just identified
Facebook.
Life decisions at the moment are not looking very good are they guys?
I think it's awful that you would just turn that around to yourself and put that online.
I can understand if you've videoed it for the mother to have a record of it when she gets out of hospital and she's in a in a space where she would be able to view that but you just put that on and she's not in a space to view that at the moment.
And what about the public that has to view it?
Perhaps they didn't want to view it.
I mean it it brought a lot of people to tears you could see that it was awful to watch.
Awful to watch those poor children and what they've had to go through.
But no, you needed to pull something back didn't it?
So you put that on for clout.
I think it's really bad.
I think what you've done is really bad you know and there's people on the thing saying oh you're always thinking about other people.
You're never thinking about other people.
You're only ever thinking about yourself.
Because if you were thinking about other people you wouldn't have put those videos on.
You didn't need to do that.
You could have just taken a picture of the candles and said we did a three minute silence or we had time out there.
You didn't need you didn't even need to document it for the world and the public to see.
Because it's for your family and the family involved.
I think it's awful you know.
Or absolutely awful what's happened.
I really do.
And then for you to dive straight on the posts like that.
You know I mean something needs to be done about knife crime in the UK.
We we tried and then we were like well because the police were like well we do an amnesty.
I said yeah but kids ain't going to come to the station because they know they're on cctv.
If you go to the police station whether they're doing an amnesty or not and they've got a box or not or you're just handing in over the counter.
You're still on cctv.
You can't go anywhere today without being on cctv or a ring doorbell or town cctv or on a camera somewhere can you?
So these children haven't got an anonymous place to drop off these knives.
That they don't want.
That they may have acquired.
So something needs to be done and like I said to the police.
I said we did it and we said we turned the cctv off.
I said and they were in a bin and we you know with plastic bin and we chained the bin up and we you know nobody could steal the bin and we had two or three knives in I think.
But that wasn't a good decision on our behalf because we didn't have any protective weight on and we had you know 12 and 13 year olds turning up with knives.
It's a stupid idea really but we didn't know what else to do at the time.
I said so going forward we would advise to go to the police station.
The police were fine.
They came down and they picked up the knives.
They came in and they had evidence bags and they put them in evidence bags as well and they were happy.
All I said is we need to be careful because we could be at risk ourselves.
They were right yes they are you know.
Because what do you do if you get a gang of 12 year olds turning up with knives?
Oh they put them in the box.
Nothing else.
But I think in general I think the UK has got a massive problem at the moment with and I'm not talking about gang culture here where they carry knives in places like Lindenburn.
I'm talking about individually in the valleys you know there's still a situation where these children can't get rid of these knives.
You know they can't you can't have a knife amnesty in school because then you've got children bringing knives into school you know it's just what do they do where do they put these weapons that they're stuck with you know that they could use in a heated argument or in the heat of the moment they could use them without thinking and the other thing is from a safety point of view you know
perhaps they're carrying them for safety But then they are going to end up using them, which is still illegal.
You know, if you had a rolling pin in a carrier bag that you just bought, and somebody attacks you and you hit them with that rolling pin, even still in the carrier bag, that's a weapon.
It's a hard one to do any guys, but I don't think putting anything up for clout at the moment is advisable.
And I think that just shows you what you like, doesn't it?
It just shows exactly what you like.
Trying to rake in likes and...
Ah, you're so brilliant, you're so wonderful.
How do you know that five years down the line, when those children are 25, that they don't want those?
You know, they can sue you for putting those videos online.
And you are currently a trustee of a registered charity and you've put those online?
You know?
Maybe that's something you need to bring up at your trustee's meeting or with the Charity Commission, I don't know.
But I think from a general public point of view, the general public didn't need to see that.
You know, something that you'd organised for children to express their grief at.
I just think, you know, you're just clawing at trying to get a bit of clout for yourself.