(Brief) Schadenfraude

Jul 24, 2008 13:31

David Cameron's bike got stolen! Wa ha ha ha ha!

On the bad side, it's yet another reminder of how serious juvenile crime is over here. Not to forget the murders that have been committed or are still being committed...when I was in London, I would see newspapers with headlines like 'French students tortured in Tarantino-style killing', '21rst ( Read more... )

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pax_athena July 24 2008, 13:45:16 UTC
It's not as bad here yet, at least not where I live. But reading alone makes me shiver and so afraid somehow.
I feel like hiding myself under a pile of research papers, though the right thing would of course be to go out and try changing things *sighs*

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hakucho_cygnus July 25 2008, 10:13:07 UTC
The question is, where to start? The economy? The social class structure? *sigh*

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amatullah76 July 24 2008, 17:51:11 UTC
Juvenile crime-and adult crime-are atrocious throughout the U.S., far surpassing just about every other industrialized country. So, if you're thinking of North America, Canada is probably your safest bet.

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hakucho_cygnus July 25 2008, 10:15:50 UTC
Hmmmm...some of my relatives live there, but I've never asked them about how safe it is over there. I also haven't asked any of my online friends who live there, either. But I reckon that perhaps I should...

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thecunningbison July 24 2008, 19:59:50 UTC
Think that's bad....

In Croydon, 2 girls bit and beat two policeman who were too afraid to hit the scumbags back with a truncheon. The reason: The policemen told one of them to pick up a bit of rubbish they threw on the floor.

http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/2402362.police_attacked_in_rubbish_row/

Seriously fed up with the level of violence these (dare I say it) "mainly black" yoots are showing! The most "white" kids do is verbal abuse (they're too chicken shit to do or say any more...) but these others lack all sense of common decency. Seen Adulthood yet?

Also fed up with our crappy roads, crappy transport, crappy taxes left right and center, crappy everything.

Once I'm through with this PhD I'm off to greener pastures I think!

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hakucho_cygnus July 25 2008, 10:26:27 UTC
>_<

Once when I taking the morning bus to Friday classes at university, this (chav) girl came on and went to the top deck. She made so much noise that the driver told her to get off before her stop, for which she threatened to kill him. He immediately reported it to the police after she left...

In Birmingham, it's mainly Black and South Asian kids who are causing so much trouble. They consider themselves ghetto boys or hard men, and a number of them come from comfortable, suburban backgrounds. You're acting like you've led a hard life on the streets why?? (This isn't to ignore that there are those who've genuinely lived difficult lives in less savoury places...)

I haven't seen Adulthood...how good is it?

When you go, take me with yooooooooooou ;_;

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thecunningbison July 25 2008, 19:15:53 UTC
And again!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7525004.stm

GRRR!

Adulthood rocks the kazbar. Well, I liked it.

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hakucho_cygnus July 26 2008, 00:30:05 UTC
10 year olds??

Oh, good grief. Agh...

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