Quote Originally Posted by Daletownrunner View Post
I would imagine that some Fell Runners climb walls, leave gates open, drop litter, park inconsiderately etc etc, but not all of them, one bad apple doesn’t spoil the whole bunch, the Police a lot of the time do some pretty grim work for not a lot of reward, people are too quick to jump on all of them when one of them lets them all down
That's true. But the runners are the public. Would you expect a RO to do the same in a race they organised?

Hillsborough
Orgreave
News agent in London
Etc

I agree there are some very good officers but there's a lot of bad too, which is inappropriate for the job they carry out.