For the third time in a row, celebrants have left the Freising Forest as a rubbish dump.
The volunteers who take care of the area draw the consequences.
Freising
- Manfred Heimerl finds clear words: “This is a pigsty beyond compare!” We are talking about the forest adventure trail in the Freising Forest, which is maintained by the Friends of the World Forest & Adventure Trail Freising.
Members like Heimerl regularly check whether everything is in order there.
On Sunday, the volunteers found a place of devastation for the third weekend in a row - and no longer want to accept it.
Bottles smashed and flyers set on fire
"Wherever children run barefoot, bottles were smashed and flyers were set on fire in the pavilion," reports Heimerl.
Not only whole boxes of empty beer bottles and packaging waste were left behind.
“We have to poke beer mats that have entered the ground with sticks, we even found used tampons,” says the 80-year-old, who can clearly see the anger on the phone, in an FT conversation.
He and four helpers collected three large bags of rubbish and again as many full of empty bottles on Sunday, they were busy for almost two hours.
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The pavilion was not spared either: Flyers were set alight and even a display case was torn from its anchoring.
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Heimerl doesn't find it bad that young people occasionally use the place as a meeting place.
"But then they should take their dirt back with them and, above all, not riot." Because the partying, according to Heimerl at least 50 people judging by the bottles, not only left rubbish behind, but also smeared information boards with black paint and tore wooden pillars from the floor and destroyed a showcase from the pavilion.
“It must have been tackled with a nail iron and brute force, otherwise you can't do it”, says Heimerl.
"Apparently the basic rules of education are missing"
The pensioner can only shake his head about the “motivation” for such actions. “We used to do rubbish when we were young. But not that kind of thing! ”What annoys him most:“ We initiated and set up the whole thing so that the people who go for a walk here will find something nice. We do guided tours, lots of activities for children, even the Waldorf school sometimes settles here. ”It cannot be that the carefully tended area is currently being devastated. “What kind of brutal youngsters are they who demolish and destroy everything? And we pensioners have to clean up the dirt from these pigs. "Above all, Heimerl also takes the parents' responsibility:" Apparently, young people lack the basic rules of upbringing: decency and consideration. "
He and the other club members draw conclusions from the past three weekends.
“If something like this happens again, the square will be cordoned off and we won't do anything there anymore.
We really lost our pleasure. "
Police: Report disturbances and rubbish actions!
The police, on the other hand, do not yet know the extent of the vandalism.
"In the past few weeks we have actually only registered one case: A forest worker has reported that some of the pavilion has been damaged and beer bottles and rubbish have been left behind," reports Michael Ertl, acting head of PI Freising, when asked.
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Several information boards were smeared.
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However, he expresses understanding for the displeasure of the club members and appeals to walkers and dog owners to report disturbances or such rubbish actions.
“Because we can only do something about it if we know about it.” During Corona, new celebrations would have arisen, “and you have to find out about them first,” says Ertl.
The police now definitely have the forest adventure trail on their radar.
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