Joe Telfer pushed in the river - reckless act could have taken life

Police are looking for two youths who pushed Joe Telfer into the river this evening just by the sewage pumping station. The tide was out and he fell 12ft into the river, fortunately his fall was broken by mud and less fortunately for the creature concerned one of the young swans. He missed the many large stones and metal objects in this part of the river. A badly shaken Mr Telfer refused a lift to the hospital from both police who were quickly on the scene and others who came to his aid.

Joe is a controversial figure and has upset a lot of folk over recent years and this might have been related to one of those incidents or more likely it was just a chance piece of reckless stupidity, either way it could have ended up with a murder charge and it is no way to behave towards any human being and anyone with any information should contact Nairn Police.

The scene of the assault

Joe finally lost it but Sandy sorted it!

Looks like a couple of litter and doggie jobbie hotspots have been sorted thanks to an intervention by Sandy Park. More on Joe's Swan blog.

Breadcrumb Brigade issues have migrated

A thread over on Mynairn.com has let to further comments on the breadcrumbs issue. Brian started out by congratulating Joe on 2 years of swan island and as usual a debate started on related matters. It seems rather tame so far compared to some we've seen here on the same subject and let's hope it stays that way. Worth scrolling down on another older mynairn thread to read a new lengthy comment from 'the dude' who had a really bad holidy experience in the town. Let's hope his thoughts don't get too far up the Google ratings when people are researching Nairn for a potential holiday break. Why not pop over and as the Guardian says 'Comment is free.'