One mystery Solved

[bogwitch]

So that police tape incident I mentioned a couple of days ago? I found out what happened.

Turns out it wasn't a boring break in as surmised. Nor was it a grisly murder of a marine or air cadet, but it was close! It was a stabbingI probably heard it, but as I was trying to tune out the row, I don't think I heard anything at all useful

Comments

[curiouswombat]

Well that's certainly exciting!

Somehow 'Kyle Minas, aged 19, of Thumpers', is the sort of name and address you just couldn't make up, isn't it?

[bogwitch]

The council estate roads around here seem to have a few odd names like that.

[quinara]

Oh dear! Glad to hear the victim's probably OK.

(There's nothing quite like regional reporting, is there - 'possession of an offensive weapon, namely a knife' is a line of pure gold.)

[bogwitch]

I think he needs to pick who he hangs out with better.

(It makes me wish I'd had a stab at journalism) ;D

[quinara]

Well, by your description this doesn't sound like the expected norm for the locals...

You'd have been good at it!

[bogwitch]

I'm not saying the locals are a lovely bunch, but not a lot happens in this town (except for the place blowing up). I think they export the trouble into Watford on a Friday night.

Nah. I realise now I would have been terrible. The writing wouldn't have been the problem, it's the interviewing and sniffing out stories (if they actually bother to do that for the local paper). I can be such a mouse sometimes - especially when I was younger. Plus I'm not nosy enough.

[petzipellepingo]

Well, at least no one is dead. That would have been worse.

[bogwitch]

That depends on how the victim is feeling about it.

[goldenusagi]

Yikes.

[bogwitch]

Indeed!

[nokomarie]

::Gasp!:: The dreaded Genovese syndrome rears its ugly head again! Now you must soul-search for minutes or even weeks.

[bogwitch]

Now steady on! No soul-searching necessary! It wasn't like I ignored painful screams or anything like that.

You have to bear in mind I overlook a park and a footpath between the town centre and several residential areas. It often gets noisy on non-work nights (especially in the summer) with drunk people or just passers-by talking beneath my window, so you have to tune them out or you'll spend your life annoyed or on the phone annoying the police.

This group (and I only assume it was this group that were involved in the incident because they were around at about the right time) were being noisy, but they never sounded angry, agitated or even drunk. In fact the only thing I remember anyone saying was 'when we get home let's have a bacon sandwich', hardly a warning of trouble ahead!

[nokomarie]

You break my heart.

When we lean out our windows to spy down on drunken skullduggery on our quiet residential street we only get to witness inept streetfights. Here you are with somebody getting stabbed and all they can express is a wish for a bacon sandwich?!

[bogwitch]

I suspect the desire for bacon was before every kicked off.

Street fights are way more exciting than what usually happens around here as we don't really get any. It's more drunken inconsiderate yelling.