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‘They may have removed the stones but they have not removed the community spirit’: Monifieth community rallies together after lockdown caterpillar vanishes overnight

Some of the stones from the Monifieth caterpillar
Some of the stones from the Monifieth caterpillar

The woman behind the lockdown caterpillar in Monifieth has praised the local community for coming together after the stones vanished overnight.

Joanne Lindsay who set up the caterpillar along with daughters Megan, 11 and Olivia, 6, has said the community has rallied together to try and recover the missing stones.

The caterpillar had previously reached over 1,600 stones.

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Joanne said: “Everything is gone, every stone, all the posters, they have been ripped off.

“People are out here wading through the grass, everyone is here getting their wellies on.

“We have managed to recover about a third just now. The local church has said they will display them.

“They will kindly take them and display them until a time that we can get them preserved. It just highlights the community coming together.

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“People might be throwing them away but they have not destroyed the community spirit at all. It’s really nice.”

Along with the girls, Joanne and families from across the community have been out this morning doing their best to recover as many stones as they can.

Joanne said although the people are not out for a nice reason it was a lovely sight to see everyone coming together.

She added: “They may have removed the stones but they have not removed the community spirit.”

Discussing who took the stones, Joanne said: “We can sit and speculate all day, I don’t suppose we will ever know.”

People searching in the grass for the stones.

Locals first noticed stones had disappeared on Friday morning with about 600 vanishing from the trail.

After searching yesterday one family managed to find 67 stones and Joanne and the girls recovered another 103.

Joanne added: “Yesterday we thought maybe they’d been removed by the council or grass cutters but once we realised it was malicious, we are all just in disbelief that people get enjoyment out of doing that and making others upset.

“The girls were distraught, especially Olivia. They were really disappointed.”

Around 600 stones were taken from the Monifieth caterpillar on Friday.