Reviewing after damage we hope will be rectified by the responsible Guest

[Mary996]

I was in a situation where I now regret NOT reviewing a guest.

I wanted to say something along the lines that " these guests caused damage... at this point in time I am progressing a claim against them. If the matter is settled then I hope to be able to remove this review". Do you see where I'm coming from?

No-one wants to say negative things unjustifiably. They felt I was asking too much compensation. I invited them to make an offer but eventually had no response except for the threat of a £200,000 claim for 'racism'. In my opinion it would have been racist NOT to have claimed for the damage they caused!

I am considering a small claims court action.

Has anyone used this route?

[Helen350]

@Mary996 - Were you thinking of Bikini Atholl???? (Not Belize!) 🙂

[Mary996]

@Helen350 

Not the Marshall Islands ...No. The outrage of atomic testing up till the 1950's is still with us and Bikini Atoll remains uninhabitable.

This was more recent testing. 

[Mary996]

@Helen350 

No I was not thinking of Bikini Atoll. There had been more recent testing in the 80's that impacted Islanders I believed to be from the Islands of Belize. The group I worked with succeeded in its objective so we're no longer active. Therefore I can't inform you of the precise location except that we helped them out with funding for uncontaminated food and so on... it also may be in the interests of Tourism to keep this quiet so it may not come to light... but I note you cart blanche like whatever Helen says irrespectively. This hasn't been a good experience coming on here for me. Its difficult to give you feedback as to the reasons why mostly as you're not receptive but perhaps if those of you who have responded to me were to drop back and leave it to others who might care to be be more orientated to those looking for empathy the Forum might be more successful and more effective as some of you indicate that its failing. There has to be a reason for not getting through to our Agents... maybe the tone on here has something to do with it. I wouldn't be listening to you!

[Helen350]

@Mary996 Pots & kettles....! I'm not quite sure why you find MY tone offensive.... Throughout your post I've tried to be sympathetic to your situation, agree where I agree, & if I'm not sure I agree, I've tried to raise issues/tease out your confusingly explained thoughts with questions which MIGHT get you to explain more clearly, or might get someone who knows more to impart some wisdom.... I only tried to help!

Please don't overreact & take things TOO personally, Yes some folk here are a bit blunt, but I think they generally mean well! (Sometimes, it's just quicker to come to the point when typing, or bending over backwards to be polite uses too many words, & subordinate clauses, so maybe people come to the point to avoid long-windedness, which stops  people reading...... Nobody's perfect!

As regards 'always agreeing with Helen' , that's not so! (I'm not sure which Helen you mean, there are several of us!) Life is not so black & white, there are shades of grey, and sometimes I agree with a Helen, and sometimes I don't! And they would say the same about me no doubt!

OK, I know nothing about nuclear testing of old, so I'm sorry if trying to help by suggesting Bikini Athol was a wrong answer! I was NOT trying to rubbish you at all! -  I was trying to help, and did not know till you said that YOU actually DO know about these things!

I personally have found the CC very useful, and I think if you stick with it it might help you in exactly the way it has helped me! - If you want to! 🙂

[Mary996]

@Fred13 

Sorry ...should have explained that I was asking about one of the Islands of Belize that was impacted by nuclear testing. Although very far away we had an influence from here in the UK in stopping this. I joined a group called 'Women working for a nuclear-free and independent Pacific" in the early 80's that was initiated by Australian Women who came to the UK.

We also formed a link with Native Hawaiians who asked for help  and I was personally able to 'Stop Britain Bombing a sacred Hawaiian Island" named Kahaolawe by involving Prince Charles and petitioning the Ministry of Defence (I spent a week on Westminster Bridge Tube Station and got to know personnel from the Ministry who were concerned and wanted to know more). We eventually had a letter from the Min of Defence saying that although the UK Navy would still join the convoy that was exercising by parading around the Pacific Rim (a biannual US Naval Exercise in which US warships sail around the area armed with nuclear warheads that they are instructed to utilise if challenged) we would not participate in the bombing and shelling of Kahaolawe. RESULT!!!! The Island is now a Nature Reserve that is recovering from all those assaults of the past.

I mention this simply because I do believe that small groups can have great influence. xx

[Fred13]

@Mary996  Aye Bikini Atoll. Imagine that the mentality just 'yesterday' (50's) was that it was perfectly natural to test a hydrogen bomb on one of the most beautiful places on Earth. 

   Reminds me of the saying - "Suppose They Gave a War and No One Showed Up" - imagine if they never create another such insane weapon because there is no place left on Mother Earth to even test it.

[Mary996]

Yay!!  @Fred13 

But it was not just Bikini Atoll. There were many other sites.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if war calls were just ignored and Military personnel failed to show up. . Some countries have continued in spite of embargoes to carry out nuclear testing but  I also visualise this coming to an end and stand against it. 

xx

[Fred13]

Love that saying: "Imagine if they declared a war and no one showed up".