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June 28, 2008 at 2:46 pm #1044878
I reckon its the olds you have to watch out for these days, as much as youth violence, the Suffolk Strangler was that age group as well and another 60 year old is wanted for rape in Brandon (near Thetford)
Quote:A 57-YEAR-old man is in hospital today after he was attacked with a machete in a town centre pub.Police have arrested a 56-year-old man on suspicion of the assault, which happened in The Grinning Rat, St Helen’s Street, last night and are due to interview him today.
June 28, 2008 at 3:32 pm #1175302some guy in newbury got slashed with a katana on wed/thurs
June 28, 2008 at 3:42 pm #1175296Playground Politics;224657 wrote:some guy in newbury got slashed with a katana on wed/thursdoesn’t surprise me, when scanners worked we’d always hear it kicking off in west berks
once there was a chap chasing chav kids with a axe down the streets of Thatcham, the very same streets I used to play in as a 9/10 year old kid..
I think with a lot of the old men they do violence like that because they’ve already fucked their lives up (usually through excessive drinking), many of them live on their own because their wives have left them due to violent behaviour so they’ve got nothing to lose from going to HMP, plenty their age group in Norwich and they get free lodgings and food..
June 28, 2008 at 7:31 pm #1175303nah it was just one tramp stole another bindle, happens all the time 😉
June 28, 2008 at 7:32 pm #1175304wait isnt that wat u said actually hahaha
July 1, 2008 at 5:32 pm #1175297victim gives his statement here and praises local emergency service and NHS personnel. Attacker (only one year younger!) remanded in custody.
That pub isn’t even a particularly bad or rough place and neither of the men were regulars!
July 2, 2008 at 5:20 pm #1175301bet the council will shut it down regardless! just like zest
July 2, 2008 at 5:24 pm #1175298m45k1;225083 wrote:bet the council will shut it down regardless! just like zesthopefully not as Zest was plagued by multiple incidents and the manager ignored a warning from Scotland Yard of actual planned gang activity
AFAIK This is a real ale / real beard type pub (sure I saw it on the CAMRA website) where they were singing folk music and many people there would be old enough to be our parents!
July 2, 2008 at 6:41 pm #1175300I remember sitting at a bus stop aged about 17,
(- 16 yr ago not in london – but suburbia)and seeing a black BMW circling round and thinking it was a bit dodgey so kept an eye on it –
and then this guy got out of it, calmly walked up to someone and removed a machete from his coat sleeve and I fucking legged it –
I did not want to get involved in being a witness to this as it was obviously some premeditated ‘gang’ type thing….maybe they’ve just got older but not changed the way they ‘deal’ with things…..
July 2, 2008 at 7:03 pm #1175299Tank Girl;225105 wrote:maybe they’ve just got older but not changed the way they ‘deal’ with things…..
perhaps true, but most people who continually live like that usually end up brown bread or in HMP long before they reach their middle age…
I think that every man (and many women these days) are capable of crimes like this, but we don’t usually attack or murder our perceived enemies because our lives are normally good enough to not want to risk a spell in jail.
Although I was never a thug and am not a big scarey bloke there have been times when the only thing stopping me using violence / weapons was simply that prison would be shit (i.e more shit than my normal life however bad) rather than any hippy or religious moral feeling that it was wrong…
I think there is a point at which any man (even the most gentle) will snap and do violence and stopping people reaching this point (or dealing with them very quickly when they do) should be the main aim of society if they want to prevent crime… Of course if they are on “too short” a fuse then they need to be sectioned/detained though..
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