How to resolve village problems with rifles!

Hi friend, you have not diverted my topic at all. I think that the topic you started under paying blood for water was the best topic I have seen raised on Mylot and I think you should re word it and start it again as it deserved to be seen, or rather needed to be seen. Maybe you could put something under water, maybe ask something really simple like how much would you pay for a bottle of water, then add underneath the title something about the real situation. That should raise response as many people will be drawn by the simple question but then more people will look as it becomes a hot discussion. Sorry if giving unwanted advice but I honestly believe this was the most important topic I have seen raised here and would only be a footnote in any international press stories. Good luck with it. By the way I was going to raise it in a response on here but find most people don't read the responses above their own response so it wouldn't have reached an audience even if my topic hits high numbers.

Thanks, friend, for the complement and for that useful advice. Your advice is not unnecessary, in fact, that is what friends are. Friends give good advice to their friend, not caring whether they like it or not. Well, I don`t have much time left today to discuss but i will certainly restart the discussion in future, as i also thought that it needed more attention. Thanks for your comment, Happy Mylotting!!

Hi Garden Gerty, I didn't really expect it to where you are and this was really anecdotal, a kind of history which doesn't reach the history books. But it sure is typical of the mindset around here that villages would prefer to feud and have the upper hand rather than be sensible. The military junta actually brought a few basic rights to what was then essentially peasant life.

Great lesson in history and social studies. Not everything is the same world wide. I will venture that this is similar to the action that took place in the old west in the United States.

Hi Garden Gerty, I love to read about those early settlers in the West and how they got there. It wasn't all 'Little House on the Prairie'.

Hi lilaclady, thanks for responding. The point is that the villagers would have continued to fight forever over this and no one would have spoken again for the next few hundred years but the problem was solved under the orders of the junta by sending the army in. Nowadays each village has it's own water supply.

Hi scarlet-woman, as I said this was in the past! We don't still carry on like that. Nowadays they would be much more likely to resolve this by contaminating the other villagers water supply by chucking their rubbish into it or some such thing. Funny though how these historical issues are still cropping up today in your town, hope you get a solution without resorting to arms.

yea,they tend to keep old fights going here. stubborn,the bunch of them.

Hi icehut, I did wonder where the first Greek drivers got their cars from and now you have solved the mystery. When the judges ruled the cars should be cut in half they were obviously snapped up over here years ago which explains why the some of the first cars were cut and shuts.

thea09, No problem. I think it is really fortunate as the events did not turned any worse. It is still thought provoking and experience enriching for what is being shared here. Take care.

Hi skysuccess, once again I should have explained this event was in the late 1960's whilst Greece was under the Junta, a military dictatorship. This move re the water is now seen as a good thing as it gave water rights to more than just those who originally had it. I don't think the army were called in specifically to deal with this problem, they were probably just in the area at the time and fancied a drink of water.