Pub points warning after buyer ‘breaks decoration by sex act’
A group of regulars saved the Howley pub from closure and took over the running of their local, but they have been left fed up after a spate of thefts and bizarre behaviour breaking decorations
A fed-up publican has called for boozers to “show respect” after one of their decorations was broken – by someone performing a sex act on it. The Howley Pub in Warrington, Cheshire, said it was “totally unacceptable” for people to break their property.
They appealed on social media for a stolen Christmas decoration to be returned and warned the culprit they were caught on camera. And they reveled it comes after a man broke a Halloween decoration in October by “performing a sexual act” on it.
In a post on Facebook, they said thieves swooped during a performance by an Elvis impersonator. A lantern, a potted Christmas plant and a table ornament were taken, they said.
They wrote: “We are a small local community pub. We have no chain or pub company that helps us with costs to buy the decorations that I put up or entertainment that we put on.
“I find it totally unacceptable that people would come in and wreck or steal our decorations especially with the camera system we have in place.
“Halloween we had a guy that thought it was appropriate to perform a sexual act on one of the animatronic decorations breaking it in the process and table decorations getting stolen.
“Last night during our Elvis entertainment someone thought it was acceptable to steal a set of table decorations. A lantern, a potted Christmas plant and a table ornament.
“We have you on camera and don’t want to put it onto social media to name and shame but I will if not returned today. Yes they don’t cost a lost of money individually but that’s not the point.
“Like I said we get no help from anyone to do this and we do what we do to try and put some magic back into the pub and community.
“I know a lot of you will think this is a funny post but how would you like it if people came into your homes or businesses and stole or maliciously broke things you’ve worked hard to buy?”
The pub, in the heart of a quiet, hard-working neighbourhood in the northern town, was taken over by Chris Sherman and husband Mark, who saved it from closure and run it along with long-time regulars Anne and Alan Hilton.
Chris told the local paper at the time: “We are a group of locals who found out the pub was going to close so decided to save the pub. We are two locals who have been drinking here for the past 50 years.
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