What can we say? We didn't say it

An e-mail after our piece about the Boston BID use of business funds to pay for yet another tier of pseudo policing takes us to task ....
"Having read the following paragraph from your blog - 'Cop this - business pays for yet another day in the office for Mr Plod' dated 17-02-09. '....while police cadets will bag your groceries for you in twice the time you would take yourself ... thus making the queues even longer,' I pondered just for a short while…. and then, I became angry. "I assume YOU as the author of these words were fully aware of the facts before making them? "If so, YOU should be ashamed, if not then just maybe in the future YOU would be kind enough to be more thorough in your research before YOU make such comments in the first place.
"For your information the cadets YOU so gracefully poke fun at gave up their free time during half term so they could visit ASDA and assist with bag packing in an attempt to raise as much money as possible for The Wednesday Club, a Charity, which they have adopted.
"The Wednesday Club was set up by parents/volunteers in a bid to provide a secure learning/socialising environment for young children and adults with both physical and learning disabilities in the Boston Borough area. There are several fundraising activities throughout the year and the money raised helps towards funding such things as trips and holidays.
"I would like to offer YOU the opportunity to visit us at the club, but people like YOU are very apt at hiding behind pseudonyms, lurking in the shadows and poking fun at people who wish to help others. However, if YOU do ever build up enough courage to step from behind the shadows why don’t YOU pay us a visit at the club and YOU would see at first hand what good is being done, not only aided by the cadets but also many other good hearted citizens of Boston who in times of hardship still managed to pledged over £200 of their hard earned cash that day. The club is based at Focus 1 Youth Centre on Mill Road, Boston and we meet every Wednesday 6 – 8 pm.
"Kind Regards
"John Platts"
Editor's note:
Kind regards? After a rant like that, you can't mean it, John.
We have a policy at Boston Eye. When we're wrong, we're wrong and we admit it. If we make a mistake, we apologise and correct it.
In this case, we said (based on experience of previous years, when police cadets have "helped" to bag our groceries) that such assistance was likely to make the queues even longer.
If anything, this was a snipe at ASDA and the time it takes to clear the store at the end of shopping.
We made no mention of why the police cadets were in the store.
We made no mention of collection for charitable causes.
We made no mention of the Wednesday Club.
Sorry, John, but your e-mail is like a Chinese whisper gone mad.
You have chosen to interpret the tailpiece to a unrelated item into an attack on a worthwhile local charity when no attack was made.


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