A sign invited the guests to drive home, have created heated debate on Helgenæs. Now the woman behind the sign forward.
‘THEN RUN the DOG HOME!’
It was the text on a sign which was put up by the roadside at Helgenæs, which is a peninsula on the south of Djursland.
the Sign created heated debate among the locals and got to the last one of the city’s citizens, Satine von Gersdorff, to remove it.
“I was shocked when I saw the sign. It does not look like my community to be a sign with as aggressive a message. It belongs to no place and is not in the spirit out here,” said Satine von Gersdorff to TV2 Østjylland.
In a Facebook-group for Helgenæs there was support for such a thing they would not have standing. Now ophavskvinden to sign signed up.
“People misunderstood my message. I have set it up that the people should turn on. It has never bound in hatred,” says Malene Hoegh to TV2 Østjylland.
Malene Høgh, who has lived on Helgenæs since 2001, so feel compelled to stand up, as she does not believe that people understand the message behind the sign.
“On the back of the sign says ‘good trip home’. It is not because I want, they never should be here. It is just right now that they should be at home,” says Malene Hoegh.
She is well aware that you are not allowed to make signs and put them up, but she did it impulsively and did not think it would do damage, she explains.
“I will harm, when people don’t care,” says Malene Hoegh to TV2 Østjylland.
Malene Hoegh was frustrated that so many people defied the government and health authorities ‘ recommendations in connection with the covid-19 not to accumulate too many of the same places and drop sommerhusturen at easter.
“Every time I went out at the door, so there were people everywhere. Flocks of bicycles, motorcycles and cars. I could barely go over my way. It simply can’t fit,” says Malene Hoegh.
A frustration, which resulted in the sign, which invited people to turn on and take home to himself again.
“I think it really is strange that every time you are invited to let be and be flat, so people do not. I don’t understand that people don’t think about,” says Malene Hoegh.
She even has a daughter, not coming up to graduation in 9. class. And we must all sacrifice something in this time under the corona-decommissioning, she believes.
Malene Hoegh felt compelled to make a video and stand up, when TV2 eastern Jutland brought in a feature and article on the unhappy inhabitants of Helgenæs, who believed that the sign had an aggressive message.
“It was misunderstood. It has never bound in hatred. It was a wake-up call to hr. and mrs Denmark. It is mad here,” says Malene Hoegh.
And the actual message would she like to stand by.
“You will also need to stand by his opinion and keep by it. And explain why I have done as I have done,” says Malene Hoegh.
in Addition, the local probably also before or since could figure out who was behind the sign, she says.
“It may well be that not all sommerhusgæster know it was me. But I usually make a sign for the annual summer festival, and it tends to stand a little farther along the road. So it was probably discovered by the locals,” says Malene Hoegh to TV2 Østjylland.
Malene Hoegh want to make it clear that she has nothing against the many visitors at Helgenæs and tourists in the holiday homes normally – just not the coronakrisen.
“They are heartily welcome, but they will have to follow the guidelines. The whole world is shut down, so one must eat his sildemad at home and wait to take in the cottage,” she says.
