Hikers fuming after shopping trolley was found abandoned at the very top of the Malvern Hills
HIKERS are fuming after a shopping trolley was found abandoned at the highest point in the Malvern Hills. Pranksters padlocked the Waitrose trolley to the top of Worcestershire Beacon, a 1,394ft peak only accessible by foot. Angry walkers and locals have been unable to remove the “blight on the landscape” as it is fixed to […]
HIKERS are fuming after a shopping trolley was found abandoned at the highest point in the Malvern Hills.
Pranksters padlocked the Waitrose trolley to the top of Worcestershire Beacon, a 1,394ft peak only accessible by foot.
Angry walkers and locals have been unable to remove the “blight on the landscape” as it is fixed to a metal ring on the concrete “trig point” post which marks the summit.
They have contacted the Malvern Hills Trust in desperation.
Sandra McCormack, 67, from Worcester, said: “It seems to have caused quite a stir — and for all the wrong reasons.
“My concern was before long there would be various other objects tethered on the Worcestershire Beacon, creating a dumping ground on a very beautiful landscape.
“This represents an act of fly-tipping and not an art installation, as some have suggested.”
Fellwalker Andrew Foster, 44, of Solihull, West Midlands, added: “It’s the strangest thing I’ve seen at a summit.
“You’d usually find them in a Birmingham canal, not at the top of a beautiful place like this. It must have taken them hours to get it up there.
“It is essentially fly-tipping but you have to sort of admire the dedication involved to push a trolley this far up a hill.”
Many took to social media to comment.
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Pauline Bronwen Price wrote: “I see nothing funny in this at all.”
Mike Lane added: “Too many morons roaming the Earth.”
But Dan Moir said: “Fair play, at least they put some effort in.”
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